Fox News’s future: $1.50 per subscriber per month

He also speculated that the $1.50 figure includes both Fox News and its much smaller sibling Fox Business. “They are getting more aggressive with that channel,” he said.

The new deal with Dish Network helps Fox Business by moving it onto the same distribution tier as Fox News.

The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal. Separately, Turner Broadcasting recently extended its deal with Dish for carriage of CNN (which owns this web site) and several other channels.

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