From the Daily Caller: Newsmax Broadcasting filed an antitrust lawsuit against Fox Corporation and Fox News on Wednesday for its alleged “unlawful monopolization” to prevent fair competition between right-leaning news networks.
The lawsuit alleges that Fox is blocking competition in the market for Newsmax and other right-leaning networks, specifically by allegedly imposing financial penalties on distributors if it airs Newsmax. The network argued they would have seen its audience and ratings “grow sooner” and have become “a more valuable media property” if it were not for Fox’s alleged “anticompetitive behavior.”
“Newsmax would have achieved greater pay TV distribution, seen its audience and ratings grow sooner, gained earlier ‘critical mass’ for major advertisers and become, overall, a more valuable media property,” the lawsuit states. “Fox’s campaign to stunt Newsmax’s business has delayed, for almost a decade, Newsmax’s growth in pay TV distribution, especially in the critical virtual Multichannel Video Programming Distributor (‘vMVPD’) arena, and has resulted in significant damages to Newsmax, including in the form of lost business, missed advertising and marketing revenues, and lower cable license fees, all while increasing overall company costs. Newsmax is far from the only victim.”
Fox also allegedly conditions “no-carry provisions,” which restricts or blocks distributors from airing competitors such as Newsmax, the lawsuit alleges. If distributors place Newsmax in basic packages, Fox penalizes the distributors by making them promote its less popular channels.
The lawsuit was filed n the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and claims that Fox has engaged 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,” the lawsuit alleges. “Fox leverages this market power to coerce distributors into not carrying or into marginalizing other right-leaning news channels, including Newsmax.”
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— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) September 3, 2025
BREAKING: NEWSMAX files antitrust lawsuit against Fox News. Read more: https://t.co/OcsnH9PFFU $NMAX pic.twitter.com/VcRlIUOTB3
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) September 3, 2025
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