lowell
Well-Known Member
I think Freeform will be fully free in 2019 or after that once they can try to get the 700 Club out of contract and get all the religious stuff to move. I'm guessing either the FOX broadcast network or FOX News and Business pick it up or New Fox makes it into a channel since the Murdochs does have Disney stock, they can help persuade the 700 Club people to a more conservative-friendly platform and give them a FOX Religious cable network if they want to. Plus, the new chairman of ABC, Dana Walden, who previously ran the FOX broadcast network, is going to in charge of Freeform alongside the two ABC & 20th Century Fox TV studios, ABC-owned TV stations, and ABC itself so she can help in possibly ejecting the 700 Club somehow. I think Disney plans for all of their cable networks to eventually not have paid programming ads but run 24 hours with programs continuing to run like Viacom and Turner Networks.