“While it may seem that every major media outlet has had an iPhone app available for some time, there are a few holdouts. Fox News Channel has been one,” David Kaplan reports fro paidContent. “Jeremy Steinberg, FNC’s VP for digital sales & business development, says the network didn’t feel there was a need to rush into the app space until advertisers were ready for more serious placements. In the meantime, FNC doesn’t plan to rely solely on ad revenues for its mobile offerings, as Steinberg says that the network is developing some paid apps for release later this year.”
“While FNC has tended to trounce CNN in many of the most important TV ratings categories, the CNN iPhone app has held the number one slot in paid news apps since it first went on sale last September for $1.99. Since the FNC app is free, the two won’t be directly competing. But FNC’s entry into the app market may allow it to build up some interest before unveiling a paid app later on,” Kaplan reports. “The FNC iPhone app does have a noteworthy sponsor in Sprint, which will be the exclusive advertiser for the next month and could try to capitalize on users’ frustration with the AT&T-powered connection for the Apple device. For now, there are no plans to release an app for Google’s Android, though Steinberg said one is likely.”
Full article here.
FOX News Digital has released the first and only news application for your iPhone from the FOX News Channel. With the free FOX News app for Apple iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad – receive FOX News Alerts, read headline news stories, stream live video, listen to FOX News Radio, browse through photo galleries, and watch the latest FNC clips on demand.
Flip your iPhone into landscape mode and view FOX News Desktop, a brand new way to browse content. Top stories and videos cycle through the app every few seconds (or you can swipe through yourself), and watch as the actual FOX News Channel ticker scrolls across the bottom of the screen.
Features include:
• Live Video: Stream live breaking news events from America’s Most Trusted Name in News, FOX News! Make sure to signup for breaking news alerts, and we’ll let you know when live events are available for streaming.
• Watch the Strategy Room, an exclusive live web program, every weekday for an entertaining discussion of the day’s top stories, plus a variety of hour-long shows on topics including business, health, technology, and entertainment.
• Alerts: Receive breaking FOX News alerts for stories and live video alerts to stay on top of the day’s most important headlines.
• Audio: Listen to FOX News Talk Radio – live, while navigating through the FOX News app. To turn on FOX News Talk Radio, simply select the ‘more’ button and follow instructions, or by turning your phone to access FOX News Desktop.
• Shows: View the latest videos from the #1 cable news shows and anchors on the FOX News Channel. See when your favorite show is on and find out the guests in advance.
• Share / Save: Articles, photos and videos can be shared with friends via Facebook or Twitter, and can be saved to Favorites for viewing later.
More info about the free FOX News app for Apple iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad via Apple’s iTunes App Store here.
Source: FOX News Digital
[UPDATE: 10:01am EDT: Added paidContent excerpt and links to full article and CNN app via iTunes App Store.]
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
“Fox “News” would not stand a chance of getting a license in Europe, and that is not for its direction but for its lack of even the most basic journalistic standards.”
That’s because the US assumed the banner of European fascism after 1945, and so provides a free reign for unscrupulous types like Rupert Murdoch to operate. Europe learned its lesson, the US still needs to wake up. Phenomena like Fox News and Rupert Murdoch help a lot in pushing the US to its own crisis, and to a more responsible form of democracy.
In any case, the tea baggers will love this app…
Cool! Just downloaded it. Needs better access to Special Report, tHough, the best evening news broadcast on TV.
Fox News would not stand a chance of getting a license in Europe…
Fox News is “Sky News” in Europe, dumbass:
http://www.skynewsinternational.com/watch/where/europe.php
The lot of you are still not seeing one key factor here: they ALL are pitching only that which SELLS. Let’s not be delusional here. I don’t trust much of anything said in news these days because the slant taken is what sells, whether it is right wing or left wing. To think that journalism anywhere in mainstream media is accurate is, in my opinion, a little naive of us. I think it is best to view modern journalism as entertainment- if that.
We all know these news sites are one sided, if you are not reading BOTH you are not open-minded no matter what side you cling to. Do yourself a favor and wake up.
There is nothing wrong with reading one unless you are not also reading the other and making notes.
It’s very nicely done. Very usable.
Any of you using Fox’s own marketing slogan “Fair and Balanced” to describe them are just fools. If they said “News that Cures Cancer” it would be just about as accurate.
When he first began his career as a crusading consumer journalist in the 1970s, John Stossel believed fervently that higher taxes and greater government involvement in the marketplace were integral checks against corporate greed and malfeasance. With an irreverent, intelligent and skeptical tone that riled corporations – but resonated with viewers – Stossel’s career flourished, leading him to the pinnacle of his profession at ABC News.
But then Stossel experienced a metamorphosis in his thinking. After observing the chronic, costly failure of so many of the numerous big government solutions that he and his media colleagues repeatedly prescribed for society’s ills, Stossel reexamined his fundamental beliefs.
“I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people,” Stossel explained shortly after undergoing his transformation. “But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer.”
In fact, Stossel realized that in most cases regulators and bureaucrats only made matters worse, spending billions of tax dollars on so-called “solutions” that invariably wound up creating larger problems. Needless to say, Stossel’s conversion to free market, libertarian principles – which he trumpeted every bit as loudly as he had previously trumpeted government interventionism – was not warmly received by his colleagues.
Howard Rich’s full article
MadMac
good one!
Hey, MadMac, Jake505, HazMatt
Steve is a progressive, burn.
M. Dell is not, go to him, he will provide you with the best tech a mind like his can provide!
@HazMatt
Predictable? Just because people are consistent in their criticism doesn’t make them wrong. Their job is to do one thing: make money. And if keeping you glued to your set by pandering to every fear and hatred you have will keep you watching then they will do it.
All you have to do is watch Glenn Beck’s ratings. The more ridiculous and outrageous he becomes, the higher his ratings go. I don’t think he believes half of what he says, but you can bet he’s making a whole lot of money saying it.
I always felt a distinct right wing flavor on this website. Of course to a true socialist like myself, what passes for liberal in America is really pretty much just center. Americans by and large are right wing, nationalistic, materialist people. The Democrats and the Republicans are just the left and right pocket of capitalism.
More from Howard Rich’s article:
In October of 2009 Stossel – who has also published two best-selling books – announced that he was leaving ABC News after 28 years to take a position with Fox News, which is widely regarded as the most “pro-free market” of America’s major TV news networks. Ordinarily a reporter moving from one network to another isn’t considered big news, but in Stossel’s case it’s significant.
While both Stossel and ABC describe their break-up in the most amicable of terms, the fact remains that ABC has been among the most vocal cheerleaders of the Obama administration and, in particular, his recently-passed socialized medicine plan. Stossel, meanwhile, watched as his reports on the perils of “Obamacare” struggled to find airtime. And while /20/20/ (to its credit) permitted Stossel’s voice to be heard, his perspective was increasingly drowned out by a steady barrage of pro-Obama news coverage as well as a glorified “Prescription for America” infomercial from the White House.
In fact, during the first six months of 2009, an analysis by the Business and Media Institute found that ABC’s health care stories featured Obama or supporters of his policies 55 times compared to just 18 times for critics of the administration’s plan – a 3-to-1 advantage.
Speaking of 3-to-1 margins, though, the public clearly isn’t overlooking this ongoing media bias.
In fact, in each year from 2001 through 2009, Gallup polling revealed that three times as many Americans viewed the media as being too liberal compared to those who believed it had a pro-conservative bias.
Oh no!
Have you heard that Fox News might be presented from a non-liberal point of view? I for one am shocked and appalled, because people should not be allowed to maintain–let alone express–views that differ from mine.
Thank goodness there are non-biased sources of news, like . . . what, MSNBC?
Folks, if you like your news from a center-right perspective, have at it and enjoy the new Fox app.
If you think that Fox is packed zany right wing nuts, you probably haven’t watched it yourself, and are mainly just repeating the criticisms of left wing ideologues who themselves often haven’t really watched it.
If you like your news from the left, there are plenty of places to get it. Enjoy.
And I promise I won’t write jerky emails maligning your choice when MDN announces, say, the MSNBC app.
Geez.
A little perspective–and civility–please.
And more of those Americans than ever before now vote with their television remotes, as network ratings from the first quarter of 2010 were a bloodbath for CNN and MSNBC, arguably the nation’s top two “pro-government” networks. Larry King’s show – CNN’s top-rated program – saw its numbers among the coveted 25-54 year-old demographic decline by 43 percent from last year, while Anderson Cooper’s show experienced a 42 percent decline. At MSNBC, the network’s top two primetime programs, “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” and “The Rachel Maddow Show,” saw their ratings plunge by 43 percent and 38 percent.
Meanwhile, viewers continued flocking to Stossel’s new home at Fox, which saw its top three shows expand their audiences by anywhere from 25-50 percent over the previous year – giving Fox more viewers than CNN, MSNBC and CNBC combined and extending its streak as the nation’s number one network to 100 months. Also, Stossel’s new TV show thrives on Fox Business Network.
Howard Rich’s full article
I do not like it Uncle Sam, I do not like it Sam I am. I do not like these dirty crooks, neither how they cook the books. I do not like when Congress steals, I do not like their secret deals. I do not like the speaker Nan. I do not like this ‘YES WE CAN’. I do not like this kind of ‘hope’, I do not like it, nope, nope … nope!
If it hasn’t been said yet, “Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.”
Just who in their right mind would even want a Fox news app — one gets all the hate mongering one can use via fox’s regular broadcast! America doen’t need more!
First 2010, then 2012: Fox News would not stand a chance of getting a license in Europe…
Fox News is “Sky News” in Europe, dumbass:
http://www.skynewsinternational.com/watch/where/europe.php
You are truly priceless! And a prime example of the mindset and manners promoted by Fox “News”.
Have you ever actually watched Sky News?
Sky News (just like Fox “News” owned by Rupert Murdoch) is actually a prime example of the difference a proper regulatory framework makes:
Sky News operates under british requirements of political neutrality for broadcasters. While Fox “News” is a rabidly one-sided political propaganda outlet, Sky News is downright respectable by comparison, sticking to actual journalism so its license won’t be yanked for the kind of violations its US sister network gets away with on a regular basis. They are under the same ownership but completely different in how they operate.
The real world abroad is actually quite a bit different from the narrow-minded view Fox “News” is pushing on you – crawling even deeper into that pit won’t do you any good.
@ ping,
You are right! Government control of news outlets is a very good thing.
For instance, where would the old Soviet Union have been without the government control of Pravda?
Gotta love it when the oh-so-tolerant libs can’t stand a helping of free speech.
I can’t think of 2 more polar opposites than Apple Inc. and Fox News
At least when I watch fox I get news and not sob stories…
For sobbing and fabricated stories, see Glenn Beck. For news, see CNN.
After the tornado hit Mississippi, CNN quickly mobilized reporters there to cover the story and anchors interviewed everyone from Gov. Haley Barbour on down to hospitals and first responders.
I flipped over to Fox to see what they had to say about the tornado and…Fox was showing documentary footage of the Falkland Islands conflict from 1982 and suggesting “it’s starting up again.”
It defies logic when right-wingers scream that CNN, which is crawling with Republican contributors such as Erick Erickson from redstate.com, is “liberal.” CNN is the original balanced news network. And no one beats them on covering breaking news like natural disasters.
As far as MSNBC, the opinion people like Matthews, Maddow and Olbermann lean left, but news guys like Chuck Todd are straight and nonpartisan. One could say the same for the major network news anchors such as Williams, Couric and Sawyer.
If balanced news reporting is viewed from the mindset of someone on the far right fringe it will always look “too far left.” If it’s viewed by someone on the far left fringe, it will always look “too far right.”
Viewed from the center, it’s in correct focus.
@Fretboard
Gee, I thought you’d be use to ‘biased, poorly conceived and unamerican opinions backed by little more than fear and ignorance directly to my mobile device!! Woo!!!’ courtesy of the brainwashing you have been receiving for countless years before FoxNews thanks to ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, etc…
Of course to be brainwashed, one WOULD need a…
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Big Als MBP: You are right! Government control of news outlets is a very good thing.
For instance, where would the old Soviet Union have been without the government control of Pravda?
There is a fundamental difference between the government controlling what can be said or how it can be said as in your allegation and the reality of properly regulated media as in Britain or Germany, where independent institutions oversee the political neutrality and absence of propaganda in the broadcasts.
And if you’re asking me whether I’d prefer propaganda from a communist dictator or from a capitalist and highly self-interested billionaire, I have to say that I prefer both to get stuffed and make way for neutral and fact-based information as it should be.