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Quarterback Tom Brady has been confirmed as Fox’s lead NFL analyst, with the job waiting for him whenever his playing career finally concludes.

Tom Brady has a job lined up for when he actually does decide to retire from the NFL!

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorLegendary football player Tom Brady will join Fox Sports as part of a multi-year deal once he ends his NFL career, lending the company a potential new boost after it lost mainstay announcers Joe Buck and Troy Aikman to ESPN.The news was disclosed by Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch during an investor call. The executive said Brady’s arrival at Fox Sports remained uncertain, as the decision about when to walk off the playing field would be left up to the athlete.

While Tom Brady doesn’t have a retirement date, we now know what he’ll be doing once he finally puts the pigskin down — he’s headed to Fox Sports.Fox chief executive officer and executive chair, Lachlan Murdoch, announced the news on Tuesday’s earnings call for the company. “We are delighted that Tom has committed to joining the Fox team and we wish him all the best,” Murdoch said. During the Q&A portion of the earnings call, the first person to pose questions to the Fox leadership team brought up Brady, joking that he wouldn’t ask when Brady was going to retire, but Lachlan addressed it anyway.“It’s entirely up to him for when he chooses to retire,” Murdoch said, noting he expects Brady to have an “exciting and stellar television career, but it’s up to him to make that choice when he sees fit.”Brady announced his retirement from football in Feb.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox Corporation said profit dipped in its third fiscal quarter due to declines in value of some of its outside investments, even as revenue increased at its mainstay cable and broadcast operations.The owner of the Fox broadcast network, Fox Sports and Fox News Channel said net income attributable to shareholders came to $283 million, or 50 cents per share, compared with  $567 million, or 96 cents per share, in the year-earlier period. The company has a sizable stake in Flutter Entertainment, the sports-betting company that controls FanDuel.  Meanwhile, the company enjoyed a 7% increase in revenue, which rose to $3.46 billion from $3.22 billion a year earlier.In a statement, Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch cited “pricing strength in both distribution and advertising revenues across our leadership brands, complemented by the powerful momentum we continue to see at Tubi,” the company’s streaming hub, as reasons for the revenue gains.

Fox Corp.’s free, ad-supported streaming service Tubi is working on an expansion of its current arrangement with Nielsen that will enlarge the scope of where its viewership is measured.

Fox Corp.’s Tubi had 3.6 billion hours streamed in 2021, a 40% increase over 2020, as overall viewing migrates from subscription to free and ad-supported services.

Fox Corp. reported sales of $4.4 billion in its fiscal second quarter ended in December, up 9% from the year before, beating Wall Street forecasts and citing sports, Fox Network pricing and Tubi.

report that he and fellow news anchor Brett Baier weren’t pleased with how opinion hosts on the network were being allowed to make false claims, and had recently “shared their objections with Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and its president of news, Jay Wallace.” Those objections eventually made their way to Lachlan Murdoch, the chairman and CEO of the network’s parent company, Fox Corporation. Fox News representatives declined to offer statements regarding Baier and Wallace at the time, and Murdoch did not respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.In the CNN news release, Wallace Said: “I am thrilled to join CNN+.

Dominion Voting Systems filed suit this week against Fox Corp., as it seeks to establish that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch bore responsibility when Fox News guests and personalities made false claims about the election systems company’s role in the 2020 presidential election.

Dominion Voting Systems filed a new lawsuit against Fox Corp this week Dominion Voting Systems Inc. sued Fox Corp.

Fox Sports has expanded its soccer portfolio, announcing a rights deal with the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) that features more than 1,500 soccer matches starting with the UEFA Nations League in June, 2022.

based on the trailer alone, is filled with lies and conspiracy theories about what happened that day. And the Anti Defamation League is calling on Fox News to cancel it.Among other things, the trailer suggests that Carlson will spend considerable time treating the false claim that the riot, an attempt to overthrow the government by supporters of Donald Trump, was actually a false flag operation designed to make conservatives look bad.

Ellise Shafer administratorThe Anti-Defamation League is urging Fox Corporation to not air Tucker Carlson’s upcoming series about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.

“I strongly urge you to reconsider airing this program. It has the potential to fuel misdirected anger and unrest,” wrote Anti Defamation League CEO and National Director Jonathan A. Greenblatt in a letter to Newscorp co-chairman Lachlan Murdoch today.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSalaries for senior executives at Fox Corporation declined in the company’s most recent fiscal year as the owner of Fox News Channel and the Fox broadcast network reduced compensation packages as part of dealing with conditions spurred by the coronavirus pandemic.Lachlan Murdoch, CEO of Fox and executive chairman, saw his total compensation fall to $27.7 million in fiscal 2021, compared with $29.2 million in the previous fiscal year, marking a decrease of approximately 5%. Rupert Murdoch, the company’s executive chairman and the CEO’s father, saw his total compensation dip to $31.1 million, compared with $34 million in the previous fiscal year, representing a drop of approximately 8.4%.

Fox chairman and patriarch Rupert Murdoch’s racked up $31.1 million in total compensation for the company’s fiscal year ended in June, down 8.4% from close to $40 million the year before.

launch its streaming service, CNN+, in the first quarter of 2022. The move into streaming is highly anticipated given CNN has lagged behind competitors Fox News — which has three different streamers — and MSNBC in this space.

Fox Corp. closed its fiscal year with a solid performance in its fourth quarter, beating Wall Street revenue and earnings forecasts.

Yahoo Finance. For the full fiscal year of 2021, Fox reported $12.91 billion revenue and an EPS of $3.61.Total quarterly revenues increased 20% to $2.89 billion with strong growth across all revenue categories.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterFox Corp. has brought on a new head of communications.

Fox Corp. Tuesday named Brian Nick Executive VP and Chief Communications Officer. He’ll be based in Los Angeles and report to chairman-CEO Lachlan Murdoch.

The renegade scion of the Fox News-owning Murdoch family, James, vigorously showcased his commitment to social and environmental causes Friday in an interview with Walmart CEO Doug McMillon at the Tribeca Festival.

ratings darling Tucker Carlson in a recent interview with Business Insider, and called Carlson’s comments about coronavirus vaccine “brave.” Tucker has in past episodes of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” said that young, healthy people don’t need the coronavirus vaccine, alleged Dr. Anthony Fauci helped create COVID-19 in a lab and coronavirus vaccines kill people.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox News Channel has defied its many critics for a quarter century, surviving shocking internal scandals and weathering myriad controversies with its primetime hosts to become a profit-generating juggernaut for Rupert Murdoch. But there is no question that its traditional linear revenue base is shrinking, which is why Fox Corp.

Outkick Media, a sports-focused digital media brand that gained attention in the years after its founding in 2008 by relentlessly attacking ESPN, is being acquired by Fox Corp.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox Corporation has purchased Outkick, the conservative-leaning sports-news site founded by entrepreneur and online personality Clay Travis.The acquisition was unveiled by Lachlan Murdoch, the company’s CEO, during a call with investors on Wednesday. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch responded to the Anti Defamation League’s call for the ouster of Tucker Carlson, concluding that the Fox News host was not advocating for “white replacement theory” in a segment last week.

Fox Corp.'s stock earned an upgrade on Wednesday thanks to the sports rights cost "clarity" provided by the recent NFL rights renewal andits role as "a potential participant in media M&A." Wells Fargo analyst Steven Cahall upgradedthe shares of Fox, led by CEO Lachlan Murdoch, from "underweight" to "equal weight" and his price target by $14 to $41 writing in a report: "We've historically been bearish on sports as rights tend to grow in excess of linear revenues, and Fox has been the media stock with the most sports leverage." But he highlighted that "we now see the new NFL deal as a clearing event with our out-year TV estimates moving up significantly," adding that "from here, M&A could be an opportunity." Plus, he noted thatsports betting

Fox News recently purchased a billboard on Hollywood Boulevard and local spots during Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert and other late-night shows to promote its new nightly entrant, Greg Gutfeld, with the line, “Cancel culture just got canceled.”

Elaine Low Senior TV Writer“Naomi,” the DC drama pilot from Ava DuVernay and Jill Blankenship, has added five to its cast, including “7th Heaven” and “Hart of Dixie” alum Barry Watson.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe chief legal officer of Fox Corporation tried to throw cold water on growing speculation that he has taken on a broader role at the company, making decisions about the company on behalf of its CEO Lachlan Murdoch,.In an interview with David Lat, writer of the Substack newsletter “Original Jurisdiction,” Viet Dinh, Fox Corp.’s chief legal and policy officer, demurred at recent stories in The New York Times and Financial Times suggesting he’s taken more control over Fox Corp. affairs.

Fox Corp. has informed its employees that the earliest date they will be returning to the office will be September 7, right after Labor Day.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterIn an internal memo to Fox Corporation employees Tuesday morning, Lachlan Murdoch told staff that the company is deferring its next possible phase one reopening date to “no earlier than September 7, immediately after Labor Day.”The company had previously set a return-to-work date no earlier than April of this year.More to come… 

Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch says his Fox News Network will be the big ratings winner while President Joe Biden is in the White House.

About two years after Fox Corp. started a new chapter as a slimmed-down, TV-centric company, CEO Lachlan Murdoch observed, “It’s a good year not to own movie studios and theme parks.”