In The Wake Of CW, Will Ailes “Expand The Capacity Of The Fox News Machine?”

By Brian 

Variety looks at the “fallout for Fox” in the wake of Tuesday’s CW announcement.

In the shakeup, the Fox station group “will lose nine UPN affiliates in top-25 markets including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago — and how those stations get rebranded, reprogrammed and repitched to advertisers is the quandary of the hour, almost certainly through the May sweeps.” The trade mag says one of the “more likely scenarios” is this:

Roger Ailes “will finally manage to expand the capacity of the Fox news machine and program news and information in primetime on those newly disenfranchised stations.”

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