“There Are Lots Of Ways That We Can Work Together,” Roger Ailes Says

Following his appointment to chairman of the Fox Television Stations group, Roger Ailes granted an interview to The Hollywood Reporter’s Paul Gough this afternoon. Here are the highlights:

> “There are a lot of ways that we can work together that we think will improve the news and the quality.”

> Ailes didn’t say that the station group’s news channels would adopt the same type of energy that has worked so well at Fox News but said: “Anybody who knows me understands that having a lot of energy and intensity about your work is pretty important.”

> He is going to meet with Jack Abernethy next week “to really begin to look at the programming and what the difficulties are.”

> Ailes isn’t concerned about the workload: “If you do proper planning, you do not have to careen from crisis to crisis. The main thing is that I have good executives. I have good executives at the Fox News Channel, I have good executives elsewhere.”

> Also: Ailes tells the NYT that he hadn’t discussed the possibility of taking the job until Monday, when he had lunch with Murdoch in Manhattan. “…I just had lunch today and I have a new job,” he says…