Independent, UK - Newsmax has waged a battle over conservative viewership against Fox News, claiming the media giant violated antitrust laws in seeking to dominate the right-wing broadcast market and stifle its growth.
In a lawsuit filed in the Southern District of Florida Wednesday, Newsmax says it “would have achieved greater pay TV distribution, see its audience and ratings grow sooner, gained earlier ‘critical mass’ for major advertisers and become, overall, a more valuable media property,” had Fox News and its parent organization not engaged in anticompetitive behavior.
Lawyers for Newsmax allege that the Fox Corporation leveraged Fox News’ market dominance to “coerce” distributors into not carrying other right-wing news networks.
Some of the alleged anticompetitive practices mentioned include imposing fees on distributors if they carry other right-wing news networks and forcing exclusivity in its carriage agreements to prevent distributors from carrying other channels.
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