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Bubzer

(4,211 posts) Wed Sep 9, 2015, 06:42 PM Sep 2015

Fox Buys National Geographic? Aaarrghg!!!!

Umm........... crap.

The National Geographic Society and 21st Century Fox announced today that they are expanding their partnership in a venture that will include National Geographic's cable channels, its 127-year-old magazine, digital and social platforms, maps, travel and other media.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/09/1419793/-Fox-Buys-National-Geographic-Aaarrghg?detail=facebook

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Fox Buys National Geographic? Aaarrghg!!!! (Original Post) Bubzer Sep 2015 OP

Well, National Geographic always did have the South Sea and African pictures... Archae Sep 2015 #1

I'm glad I just watched their Inside Mecca documentary, because that's probably going to disappear. tanyev Sep 2015 #2

Pox Entertainment has owned the National Geo channel for ages Warpy Sep 2015 #11

the fuck? Warren Stupidity Sep 2015 #3

I'm very sad. Goodby to a special part of our history. I wish it had just folded honorably. Hortensis Sep 2015 #4

+1 Bubzer Sep 2015 #6

You're kidding me! Gloria Sep 2015 #5

Well, there goes my respect. smirkymonkey Sep 2015 #7

Yeah... I'm with you. Bubzer Sep 2015 #9

" " " " n/t MBS Sep 2015 #19

Well, that's the last we're gonna read about global warming KamaAina Sep 2015 #8

I was thinking somthing similar. Now they can parot whatever bullcrap they want on climate change. Bubzer Sep 2015 #12

Oh no. As a 30+ year subscriber... mainer Sep 2015 #10

I can see a future serial: Cirque du So-What Sep 2015 #13

yeah...that goes double for me! Bubzer Sep 2015 #14

I'll see your bilateral barf... Cirque du So-What Sep 2015 #18

I'll match your turlets... Bubzer Sep 2015 #20

One less channel to,watch, one step closer to cutting the TV cord....... eom a kennedy Sep 2015 #15

Ah Fox owns a lot of other stuff besides news its not really the same... Historic NY Sep 2015 #16

they've had the national geographic teevee channel for a long time spanone Sep 2015 #17

Archae

(46,347 posts)

1. Well, National Geographic always did have the South Sea and African pictures...

Reply to Bubzer (Original post)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 06:45 PM

Sep 2015

So it won't be that much different for after Rupert puts his topless tabloid girls in.

tanyev

(42,618 posts)

2. I'm glad I just watched their Inside Mecca documentary, because that's probably going to disappear.

Reply to Bubzer (Original post)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 06:45 PM

Sep 2015

Warpy

(111,352 posts)

11. Pox Entertainment has owned the National Geo channel for ages

Reply to tanyev (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 06:59 PM

Sep 2015

as I learned a few years ago when they were having one of their intermittent tiffs with Direct.

Pox Entertainment is completely different from Pox News. Remember, they've given us things like "The Simpsons" and "Married With Children."

Roger Ailes will have no input into either the magazine or the channel unless things change radically.

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)

3. the fuck?

Reply to Bubzer (Original post)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 06:47 PM

Sep 2015

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

4. I'm very sad. Goodby to a special part of our history. I wish it had just folded honorably.

Reply to Bubzer (Original post)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 06:53 PM

Sep 2015

Bubzer

(4,211 posts)

6. +1

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #4)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 06:57 PM

Sep 2015

Gloria

(17,663 posts)

5. You're kidding me!

Reply to Bubzer (Original post)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 06:57 PM

Sep 2015

National Geo will now become....what?

I tell you, the Smithsonian Channel is a lot of junk....mostly plane disasters...
I wonder who THEY are partnered with??

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

7. Well, there goes my respect.

Reply to Bubzer (Original post)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 06:58 PM

Sep 2015

Does everything and everybody have a price these days? Whatever happened to standards and integrity?

Bubzer

(4,211 posts)

9. Yeah... I'm with you.

Reply to smirkymonkey (Reply #7)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 06:59 PM

Sep 2015

MBS

(9,688 posts)

19. " " " " n/t

Reply to smirkymonkey (Reply #7)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 07:36 PM

Sep 2015

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

8. Well, that's the last we're gonna read about global warming

Reply to Bubzer (Original post)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 06:59 PM

Sep 2015

Bubzer

(4,211 posts)

12. I was thinking somthing similar. Now they can parot whatever bullcrap they want on climate change.

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #8)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 07:00 PM

Sep 2015

mainer

(12,029 posts)

10. Oh no. As a 30+ year subscriber...

Reply to Bubzer (Original post)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 06:59 PM

Sep 2015

my heart is breaking, too.

The instant I see it "turning Fox," I'm canceling.

Cirque du So-What

(25,984 posts)

13. I can see a future serial:

Reply to Bubzer (Original post)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 07:02 PM

Sep 2015

5,000 Monuments to Ronald Reagan

Bubzer

(4,211 posts)

14. yeah...that goes double for me!

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Reply #13)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 07:26 PM

Sep 2015

Cirque du So-What

(25,984 posts)

18. I'll see your bilateral barf...

Reply to Bubzer (Reply #14)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 07:35 PM

Sep 2015

...and raise you...

...tandem turlets.

Bubzer

(4,211 posts)

20. I'll match your turlets...

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Reply #18)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 08:33 PM

Sep 2015

with some gastro-intestinal-gusto

a kennedy

(29,710 posts)

15. One less channel to,watch, one step closer to cutting the TV cord....... eom

Reply to Bubzer (Original post)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 07:27 PM

Sep 2015

Historic NY

(37,453 posts)

16. Ah Fox owns a lot of other stuff besides news its not really the same...

Reply to Bubzer (Original post)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 07:29 PM

Sep 2015

it will probably help Nat Geo more.

spanone

(135,880 posts)

17. they've had the national geographic teevee channel for a long time

Reply to Bubzer (Original post)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 07:31 PM

Sep 2015

National Geographic Channel (also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo) is the American digital cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Fox Cable Networks division of 21st Century Fox and the National Geographic Society.

The channel airs non-fiction television programs produced by National Geographic and other production companies. Like History and Discovery Channel, the channel features documentaries with factual content involving nature, science, culture, and history, plus some reality and pseudo-scientific entertainment programming. Its primary sister network worldwide, including the United States, is Nat Geo Wild, which focuses on animal-related programming, including the popular Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan.

As of February 2015, National Geographic Channel is available to approximately 86,144,000 pay television households (74% of households with television) in the United States.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_Channel

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