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07/24/2025
Newsmax, FCC’s Ownership Tug of War
Newsmax CEO and Founder Christopher Ruddy came out swinging this week against an FCC proposal that would potentially loosen the national broadcast ownership cap. He was making the rounds in Washington on Thursday when CFX caught up with him.
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07/23/2025
Newsmax Enters the 39% Ownership Chat at the FCC
While signs have been looking pretty positive for the relaxing of the FCC’s 39% audience ownership cap for broadcasters, there’s a new objector that’s raising eyebrows.
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03/31/2025
‘NMAX’ Live on NYSE
Today was the big day for Newsmax as its Class B Common Stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange at about 10:30am ET, and the network drew up quite the start.
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01/12/2024
Newsmax Quietly Inks Carriage Renewals
Newsmax’s dust-up last year with DirecTV is behind the news network. It enters 2024 with carriage renewals in place with its five largest distributors: Comcast, Charter, DirecTV, DISH and Verizon Fios.
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09/21/2023
Rupert Murdoch to Step Down, Shift Role in November
Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chairman of Fox Corp. and News Corp. The move will go into effect in mid-November at the annual general meeting of shareholders for each company, where Murdoch will be appointed to the new role of Chairman Emeritus of each company.
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06/07/2023
Licht Stepping Down at CNN Amid Criticism
CNN Worldwide CEO/Chairman Chris Licht stepped down Wednesday after just over a year in the position. With him gone, CNN’s interim leadership team will include EVP, Talent and Content Development Amy Entelis; EVP, Editorial Virginia Moseley; EVP, U.S. Programming Eric Sherling and newly appointed COO David Leavy.