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[laughing] >> and sure enough, rupert murdochs main rival, the sydney morning herald, they run a photo, and they do this story and their pages about this slumbering young murdoch. [music] >> the message to james is, you are murdoch, you are now in a world where it is kill or be killed. [music] >> on october 9, 1986, fox broadcasting launches. >> fox network been putting on the ritz all week long in hollywood. >> it started with one show in late night, hosted by joan rivers. everybody and their m...

>> and he falls asleep in the middle of this news conference. >> and sure enough, rupert murdochs main rival, the sydney morning herald, they run a photo. and they do this story in their pages about this slumbering young murdoch. the message to james is, you are a murdoch. youre now in a world where its kill or be killed. >> on october 9th, 1986, fox broadcasting launches. >> fox network has been putting on the ritz all week long in hollywood. >> it started with one show in late night hosted by ...

[music] >> much of the extra money being generated is coming here, 6000 miles and a world away from the east end of london. >> rupert is perfectly comfortable killing off the unions in the uk. the reason is the fox network, hes got much bigger ambitions for his empire, hes got a new frontier lined up in front of him, hollywood. [music]

And the influence of rubber murdoch will be even bigger than that in terms entertainment, the fox network, the simpsons. >> we forget about the fox network, right? which is a sort of fledgling network became huge. whats the most surprising thing you learned through this? >> i mean, i think what was most interesting was the incredibly complicated family dynamics. the way that the children were sort of pitted against each other, competing for the empire, and the complicated feelings that they all ...

Involved? whats his legacy, do you think? >> his legacy is so wide-ranging, okay? but i would say, in the very first place, he brought a very british, but murdochian british tabloid sensibility, first to newspapers. at the "new york post," he sort of reinvented the american tabloid. and even experimented in texas when he first came to the country. then he took that tabloidian approach and that sensational approach and brought it into fox news, with a populous, political sort of bent to it. not t...

Company, it controls a lot of the media in australia, a lot of the newspapers in the uk, and here in the u.s. hes got "the wall street journal," the "new york post," and of course, he has fox news. >> and wildly profitable, i think is the answer. >> not to mention a broadcast network on top of that, the fox network. >> which people always forget, you know, how did he get to this point, jonathan? you know, from some newspapers in australia to global titan? >> well, it was a sort of step-by-step m...

Easy in the modern world. keep that in mind about the heavy lifting she did to keep this monarchy as strong and powerful as it is. well take a quick break as we watch the queen elizabeth iis funeral. >> well pause for the fox affiliate to join us, you are watching special coverage of queen elizabeth ii funeral live from outside buckingham palace, im martha maccallum with piers morgan and ainsley. the other stations are joining on the fox network. >> piers: australian prime minister of only a few...

Three broadcast networks was presumed to be complete, and rupert murdoch, having disrupted the newspaper business in australia, the television business in britain, he arrives in america and basically says i dont really see why there should only be three broadcast networks, im going to make another one. this was a big bold bet. >> meantime, he will have to become an american citizen if he is to own tv stations here, something murdoch says he is willing to do. >> there are some people who are sayi...

Get in the bathroom and wipe the pee off the toilet seat. disgusting. >> fox network had come on and done well with black sitcoms so the wb and upn at the time were coming on, and they started to diversify and grow that audience. >> they are able to snatch up this audience that the other networks were really ignoring up until that point. >> so these shows kind of set the stage for the diversity in the family sitcom that can be seen on television today. >> welcome, wongs, im rick. the length and ...

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