But what do we get out of the deal?

@Trevor - "so let's have some genuine competition on TV".

again, there is nothing stopping these people setting up their own TV station, they are not being stopped by Mr Murdoch.

I don't know why people think there will be a UK Fox News. Regardless of what you think about Murdoch there is nothing like Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity in Sky or his papers. Quite possibly because Britain has a different culture to America and most people - even on the right - think the likes of Glenn Beck are absurd.

Unless Roger Ailes becomes becomes the new Chief Executive of of Sky News, don't expect much more than the usual right wing fodder in this country. Which is no less inaccurate than John Pilger, George Monbiot and Laurie Penny.

@Perry Mason

I dare say billionaire plutocrats like Murdoch and his ilk think it unwise to give publicity to views which, if they ever came to fruition, would consign both him and his class to the dustbin of history, but we're supposed to live in something called a "pluralist" democracy where all viewpoints are given fair exposure. Yes, radical left-wing beliefs are to be found on the internet, but the vast bulk of the world's population still obtain most (if not all) their information from the mainsteam media and this is what shapes their outlook and values. We are told, ad nauseam, that capitalism promotes "choice" through competition, so let's have some genuine competition on TV, radio and in the press when politics is under discussion by giving equal coverage to radical socialist ideas. After all, if capitalism is such a superior economic system what have its advocates to fear?

You people across the pond are morons. If you get a channel and do not like it do not watch. Fox News channel is the most watched news channel in the U.S.. Wait until you all have to buy prayer rugs then you will only have Al Jazeera to watch. You are for choice in killing but not in watching a real news channel.

some people have plainly been bought around here. It is plain as day.

Murdoch, suck this,

While I detest the idea of Fox 'News' UK, I doubt it would work. Every time a Fox News style media outlet is launched outside of the US, it doesn't do well financially. Canada's National Post, for example is very right wing and has never turned a profit in its history.

"I for one would warmly welcome the choice of being able to watch a UK specific version of Fox News."

No rational person would possibly welcome such a thing, given how utterly divorced its 'news' would undoubtedly be from reality.

Unless it was for the lolz.

If rupert came to touch me or any of my family I am afraid I would have to hack at him wiht my arms or if I had a garden tool, I know its upsetting but the thought of his hands on my son and or my daughter would slash at him with a rake to get him off, serious couldyou (Stephen Baxter) have murdoch hands on your family?? I could not live with myself. Sir vince cabel shold be a sad day and for one I could comfort him, have experience of doing so!!

Does anybody else have the same dystopian vision of the future where Rupert Murdoch's head in a jar controls the world?

Not to be rude. But it's amazing that the millions who say they oppose this don't fight this en masse.

If you say, I don't have time to march, there are other ways to protest. They're perfectly legal and many can be done in the privacy of your own home.

How do you fight the MSM? Beat them at their own game and think outside the box.

@Marcus - i agree.

why are so many against choice?

you can choose to subscribe or not.
you can choose to watch or not.

why do people have a problem with choice?

What a disaster. Murdoch is another who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. A natural Tory bedfellow. He is singlehandedly responsible for much of the dumbing down of this country because he lives by the adage that no one ever got poor by underestimating the intelligence of the general population. His rags show tits on page three and stoop to phone hacking, tittilation and celebrity gossip to grasp pennies from the hard of intillect. His TV interests create monopolies on sport that used to be on terrestial TV and produce crap in the way of drama and documentaries. Seriously, does anyone watch Sky TV for anything produced by Fox other than The Simpsons?
He is everything that is bad about the media.