Newsmax sues Fox News, calling it a monopoly that abuses its power

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Source: CNN Business

Updated Sep 3, 2025, 2:16 PM ET
PUBLISHED Sep 3, 2025, 12:36 PM ET


Christopher Ruddy’s pro-Trump channel Newsmax on Wednesday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Fox News, accusing the Rupert Murdoch-owned broadcaster of illegally blocking competition in the right-wing pay-TV market.

The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the Fox News Network and its parent company, Fox Corp, accused Fox of engaging in “an exclusionary scheme to increase and maintain its dominance in the market for US right-leaning pay TV news.”

“Fox’s control over this must-have news channel gives it significant market power and leverage to impose onerous demands on distributors of its content,” Newsmax alleges in the lawsuit. “Fox leverages this market power to coerce distributors into not carrying or into marginalizing other right-leaning news channels, including Newsmax.”

Newsmax accused Fox of engaging in multiple anticompetitive behaviors: Granting access to Fox’s content so long as distributors don’t carry other right-wing channels; imposing fees if distributors carry other channels; and building barriers into carriage deals that bar other channels from competing. Newsmax claims that it could have achieved better success if it weren’t for the trio of measures.


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/media/newsmax-sues-fox-news

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Link to SUIT (PDF) - https://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax/media/PDFs/NewsmaxFoxComplaint.pdf

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20. FLASH: Judge Aileen Cannon dismisses antitrust lawsuit recent filed by Newsmax against Fox News

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