More Former Fox Executives Join Padden in Condemning Network
Two former Fox executives say they regret their efforts to secure regulatory approval for the network, according to a blog post by former Fox lobbyist Preston Padden, who's backing a challenge to a Fox-owned TV station’s license renewal. The blog…
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is a joint statement from former Fox executive vice president Ken Solomon -- who now heads the Sinclair Broadcast-owned Tennis Channel -- and former Hogan attorney William Reyner -- now of MissionTV. “For what little it may, or may not, be worth at this point, Preston Padden, Ken Solomon and Bill Reyner wish to express their deep disappointment for helping to give birth to Fox Broadcasting Company and Fox Television that came to include Fox News Channel,” said the blog post. They secured waivers of FCC rules and convinced affiliates to switch to create a fourth broadcast network, the blog post said. “We genuinely believed that the creation of a fourth competitive force in broadcast television was in the public interest,” said the blog post. “We never envisioned, and would not knowingly have enabled, the disinformation machine that, in our opinion, Fox has become.” Fox didn’t comment.