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FOX NEWS TO EMPHASIZE VIDEO ON ITS WEBSITE Wednesday, September 26 2007 The Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network plan to emphasize video on their websites beginning October 15 when they begin employing Maven Networks technology, Broadcasting & Cable reported today (Wednesday). In an interview with the trade publication, Maven CEO Hilmi Ozguc said, "If you go to FOXNews.com, it is mostly text and pictures and some video. In the future, my expectation is that you will see something that is more like interactive TV (more) MURDOCH WALKS WALL STREET TIGHTROPE Wednesday, September 19 2007 
Employing
an
odd
choice
of
words
for
a
man
who
had
just
purchased
a
company
that
publishes
a
newspaper
called
the
Wall
Street
Journal,
Rupert
Murdoch
said
Tuesday
that
the
difference
between
his
upcoming
Fox
Business
Network
and
CNBC
is:
"They're
Wall
Street
and
we're
Main
Street."
Speaking
at
an
investors'
conference
in
New
York,
the
irony
of
Murdoch's
remark
seemed
compounded
when
he
indicated
that
Wall
Street
Journal
writers
will
provide
commentary
for
FBN
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With only a week to go until the launch of the Fox Business Network, Fox News President Roger Ailes claims that even he doesn't know how the channel will differentiate itself from rival CNBC. "I'm trying to get it up on my TV so I can watch rehearsals," Ailes told today's (Monday) Wall Street Journal. "Needless to say we didn't put out a program schedule because everything we suggested we were gonna do or CNBC thought we were gonna do over the last two years they've gone ahead and done in anticipation and preemption. So we're really not saying much." Although FBN's corporate parent News Corp recently purchased Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, CNBC currently has an exclusive contract to use the Journal's reports. "So I'm expecting them to come out of the gate the day we launch with some brilliant programming based on The Wall Street Journal. They've been holding it in reserve I think and they're gonna flood me with a tsunami of brilliant ideas and programming on Day One," Ailes said. Asked whether News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch might "try to find a way around the content-sharing agreement" between the Journal and CNBC, Ailes replied, "I tell you one thing I never do is predict Mr. Murdoch."
