{"id":11265,"date":"2009-10-29T12:21:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T19:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11265"},"modified":"2009-10-29T12:29:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T19:29:13","slug":"is-news-corp-selling-fuel-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11265","title":{"rendered":"Is News Corp Selling Fuel TV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fuel.tv_logo-250x239.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fuel.tv_logo-250x239.jpg','popup','width=250,height=239,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fuel.tv_logo-250x239-tm.jpg\" height=\"95\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Fuel.Tv Logo-250X239\" \/><\/a><strong>Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CAwQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscorp.com%2F&amp;ei=jOvpStOsGoGCsgPdkeXWCA&amp;usg=AFQjCNEiU4XOCGoHHiExJJ6XII7LSylJvQ\" target=\"_blank\">News Corp<\/a><\/strong>. may be in the process of considering the sell off <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fuel.tv\" target=\"_blank\">Fuel TV<\/a><\/strong> to help finance an approximately $800 million purchase of<strong> <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelchannel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Travel Channel<\/a><\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Discovery<\/a><\/strong>, according to a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/20091029\/surfs-up-news-corp-mulling-sale-of-action-sports-channel-fuel-tv\/\">Media Memo column<\/a><\/strong> by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">All Things D&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong><strong> Peter Kafka<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If News Corp. does part with the channel, it won\u2019t be a whopper of a deal: Fuel TV, which features skate and surf-themed programming like \u201cThe Adventures of Danny and the Dingo\u201d (I know. Me neither) boasts just 25 million subscribers \u2014 about half of what cable networks need to get taken seriously by operators and advertisers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kafka said he spoke to several Wall Street analysts and no one could come up with an approximate price for the channel, which isn&#8217;t all the surprising. No one knows what it&#8217;s actually worth, if anything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/20091029\/surfs-up-news-corp-mulling-sale-of-action-sports-channel-fuel-tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">All Things D<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s News Corp. may be in the process of considering the sell off Fuel TV to help finance an approximately $800 million purchase of Travel Channel from Discovery, according to a Media Memo column by All Things D&#8217;s Peter Kafka. If News Corp. does part with the channel, it won\u2019t be a whopper of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11269,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265\/revisions\/11269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}