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Fox News Channel, commonly referred to simply as Fox News, is an American conservative news and political commentary television channel and website headquartered in New York City owned by Fox News Media which in turn belongs to the Fox Corporation. Fox News is currently the most-watched cable news network in America with approximately 70% of pre-tax profit generated annually; broadcast from studios at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan it provides service in 86 countries worldwide with special segments during advertising breaks featuring Fox Extra segments dubbed as an extra feature by its international counterpart.

Rupert Murdoch founded Fox News Channel as an appeal to conservative audiences in 1996 and recruited former Republican media consultant and CNBC executive Roger Ailes as its founding CEO. On October 7, 1996, Fox launched to 17 million cable subscribers worldwide. Fox News became the leading US cable news subscription network during the late 1990s and 2000s, reaching nearly all US households (91 percent) by September 2018. Over 87 million U.S. households (91 percent of television subscribers) could access Fox News by then. In 2019, Fox News was the top-rated cable network, attracting an average 2.5 million viewers for prime time programming each day. Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman since 2016, stated in 2023 that he would step aside and hand responsibility over to his son Lachlan; since 2018 Suzanne Scott has served as CEO.

Fox News is often described as a propaganda outlet, featuring biased reporting that favors Republican politicians and causes, while painting Democratic politics negatively. Critics have asserted that Fox News compromises the integrity of news journalism as a whole. Fox News denied bias in their news reporting in 2009, with an official position of operating independently from opinion journalism in their reports. Media analyst Brian Stelter noted in 2021 that in recent years MSNBC had modified its programming to provide less news coverage and more opinions-about-the-news commentary throughout the day, fearing viewers were abandoning them for more conservative competitors offering similar material.

Dominion Voting Systems sued Fox over their reporting on the 2020 U.S. election, leading to the release of internal communications that revealed their presenters and senior executives privately doubting claims of election theft while broadcasting such claims anyway. Fox CEO Suzanne Scott stated in other communications that fact-checking would alienate Fox viewers. Eventually Fox settled this lawsuit in 2023 by agreeing to pay Dominion $787.5 million as settlement while also accepting that Fox broadcast false statements against them in its reporting.

Pew Research Center found that in 2019, 66% of Republicans and those who lean Republican trusted Fox News.