Sometimes Two Ain't Better Than One

摘要

When Fox purchased the Chris-Craft station group in August 2000, it got duopolies in three big markets. What clout! Mitch Stern, then the chairman and CEO of Fox Television Stations, boasted that those station combos would turn into lean, mean profit centers with great programming, soaring revenues, and drastically reduced costs. "You have to deal with us," he taunted advertisers and syndicators expecting to do business in New York, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, where the Chris-Craft deal gave Fox second TV outlets.