Author: Michael M. Grynbaum / Source: New York Times
Fox News viewers love Fox News. Now the network will find out if they are willing to pay for more of it.
In a first-of-its-kind test for the cable news market, Fox News said on Thursday that its stand-alone streaming service will debut next month, with subscribers paying about $65 a year.
The product, called Fox Nation and set to become available on Nov. 27, is a bid to bring the channel’s programming into the digital realm that has increasingly lured audiences away from traditional TV.
Whether Fox News devotees come along is an open question. The median age in the Fox News audience is roughly 65, according to Nielsen, a demographic that is more likely than younger viewers to stick with meat-and-potatoes cable and satellite packages.
There is also the price — $5.99 a month or $64.99 a year — which would come on top of a regular cable subscription. Unlike HBO Now, which allows stand-alone access to all HBO programming, Fox Nation will not overlap with any shows included on Fox News’s cable broadcast.
Instead, the network is producing a slate of new series exclusive to the streaming service, which will be commercial free at its launch. Among the offerings: a true-crime series…
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