Fox Nation, the streaming service available
for $65 a year, will begin offering “Crime Stories”
in January.
The on-demand service recently announced
that former CBS News correspondent Lara Logan
will host a documentary series on media bias,
immigration and other issues, and said more
signings are in the works.
When Fox Nation began late last year, it
was positioned as a place where potential
subscribers could go if they didn’t feel they were
getting enough opinion programming on Fox
News Channel. Instead, users were apparently
getting their fill.
“In a weird way, what the traditional Fox
audience wants is complementary to the
channel but not more of the same,” said John
Finley, the Fox executive vice president who
oversees the streaming service.
Perhaps the political climate has exhausted
them, he said. Instead, he’s found a hunger
for “programming with Fox values but not
necessarily politics,” he said. That encompasses
history, crime and lifestyle programming.
“What Made America Great,” where “Fox &
Friends” host Brian Kilmeade visits historical
sites across the country, is one of the service’s
most popular programs. So is “Scandalous,” a
documentary series on controversial incidents
in history. Abby Hornacek is a popular host,
both with the series “PARK’D” where she visits
national parks, and “Ride to Work,” where she
accompanies Fox personalities in a show that
recalls Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars
Getting Coffee,” only without coffee stops and
without the jokes.