Newsmax has waged a battle over conservative viewership against Fox News, claiming the media giant violated antitrust laws in seeking to dominate the right-wing broadcast market and stifle its growth.
In a lawsuit filed in the Southern District of Florida Wednesday, Newsmax says it “would have achieved greater pay TV distribution, see its audience and ratings grow sooner, gained earlier ‘critical mass’ for major advertisers and become, overall, a more valuable media property,” had Fox News and its parent organization not engaged in anticompetitive behavior.
