Fox News has hired Marianne Gambelli to be President of Advertising Sales. She starts May 22 and will oversee the ad-sales business for Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. 21st Century Fox executive chairman Rupert Murdoch announced the hire today. Gambelli spent 22 years at NBCUniversal and rose to President…

Fox Business Network scored its biggest ratings in its eight-year history when it hosted a Republican presidential debate in November. The next day it proceeded to mark its most-watched business day ever. So on a day when the GOP is plastered all over cable news with reaction to Donald Trump’s ban-the-Muslims tirade…

Dish Network customers are heading toward the one-week mark minus access to Fox News Channel or Fox Business Channel, after those networks’ parent company could not reach agreement with the satellite TV provider on a new distribution deal. Finger pointing between 21st Century Fox and Dish broke out in the middle of…

Fox says it did not try to force Dish to buy a car along with a house, as Dish suggested last last night when carriage talks failed to reach resolution before the midnight deadline. Fox News Channel and Fox Business Channel were pulled from the operator shortly before midnight. "We're not asking Dish to do anything we…

21st Century Fox and Dish pointed the finger at each other tonight as carriage talks between the two failed to produce a deal by midnight, resulting in Fox News Channel and Fox Business Channel no longer being available on Dish. Both sides blamed the other for the shutdowns. “It is disappointing that, after nearly two…