{"id":267556,"date":"2026-02-04T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267556\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:48:08","slug":"fox-ceo-lachlan-murdoch-touts-broadcast-nets-big-fall-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267556\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch Touts Broadcast Net’s Big Fall Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Fox<\/a> broadcast network had its biggest fall launch in 13 years, Fox Corp.<\/a> CEO Lachlan Murdoch<\/a> said Wednesday, telling Wall Street analysts that the company maintains a strong appetite for entertainment programming.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking on the company\u2019s fiscal second quarter earnings<\/a> call, Murdoch called out the premieres of Memory of a Killer<\/a>, Best Medicine<\/a> and Fear Factor. Each exceeded 10 million viewers across platforms in their first week, he said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe proof is in the pudding,\u201d Murdoch said, noting that entertainment revenue at Fox was up in the quarter \u201cfor the first time in many years.\u201d (He later said it was the first uptick in four years.)<\/p>\n

\n\tSports and news again drove quarterly results<\/a>, and there are plenty of challenges ahead with sports rights fee increases and linear audience erosion. Still, entertainment has remained a surprising element in the mix given recent corporate history at Fox. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2019, Fox Corp. separated from 21st Century Fox when the latter was mostly taken over by Disney. The \u201cRemainCo\u201d was centered on news and sports, but questions were immediately raised about whether, or how, the broadcast network would maintain an entertainment profile. <\/p>\n

\n\tOver the past year, Fox has signed agreements spanning scripted and unscripted with Jamie Foxx, Taraji P. Henson and former longtime HBO and Topic Studios exec Maria Zuckerman. The company is also pushing into the creator space, inking a vertical video deal<\/a> with major YouTuber Dhar Mann.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe will always sign first-look deals and creative deals with the best content creators and producers and writers in the industry,\u201d Murdoch said. \u201cThat\u2019s something that we\u2019ve always done, and will continue to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOverall, the CEO said, \u201cwe continue with our existing strategy on the entertainment network,\u201d balancing scripted and non-scripted fare, with budgets in mind. The company looks to \u201cmaintain an efficient and, ultimately, profitable cost base.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fox broadcast network had its biggest fall launch in 13 years, Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[106991,156,4131,14679,12850,29376,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-267556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-best-medicine","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fox","11":"tag-fox-corp","12":"tag-lachlan-murdoch","13":"tag-memory-of-a-killer","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}