MaxGerke01
Banned
In my personal headcannon and also I hope that it will be backed up by the shows timeline is that the forces that allowed FOX NEWS to become so prominent in American society are just not as prominent themselves and perhaps its butterlied away or doesnt really take off.That said I wouldnt want to lose gems like The Simpsons. In Living Color,Married With Children and many others like Alien Nation. So hopefully there is still a FOX TV in some form but maybe they get picked up by another network ? It would probably have to be the latter because its hard to imagine someone like Rupert Murdoch not doing news if the tv network was successsful...That’s a solid call. Telecom is more robust in this era, so an earlier 4th network seems reasonable on that end. And we know IOTL that Paramount was considering it. Maybe not pulling properties (everyone produced for each other and bought from independents more readily in this era) but more money and ideas are swimming around, we know the floodgate of 80s cartoons opened early, there’s no shortage of news anchors, there’s plenty of creative juice for a 4th, it’s reasonable to say.
Then the question becomes, do we have room for a 5th network (Fox) or is Rupert Murdoch left out in the cold?