Prometheus 6

I read this headline

In Fox News, Giuliani Finds a Friendly Stage

and said, "You don't know the half of it." Turns out they do, though...and they saved me some research. 

In 1996, when Mr. Ailes and Rupert Murdoch started Fox News, Mr. Giuliani intervened as mayor after Time Warner cable refused to carry the new station in the city. Time Warner, which had 1.1 million subscribers in the city, said it had room for only one more news station, which it had just awarded to MSNBC.

Fox accused Time Warner of trying to protect CNN, which Time Warner was buying. On Sept. 20, 1996, Mr. Ailes called Mr. Giuliani to ask for help. A flurry of meetings followed, but Time Warner did not budge. Three weeks later, the Giuliani administration said it would broadcast Fox News on a municipal-run station, citing the benefits of offering diverse news sources and protecting the 600 jobs Fox had created.

“We looked into it, and the mayor decided, this is something the city had a vested interest in and that we should pursue it, and on that level I agreed with him,” Fran Reiter, a deputy mayor under Mr. Giuliani, said in an interview. “I really believe that the mayor believed what Time Warner was doing was wrong.”

But a federal judge blocked his plan, calling it “special advocacy” to “reward a friend and to further a particular viewpoint.” The companies came to terms the next year.

Time Warner executives found the pressure from Mr. Giuliani “extraordinary,” Richard Aurelio, a former head of Time Warner’s city cable operation, said in an interview. “To have politicians getting into the act of making those judgments was, to me, outrageous,” he said. “Never before had any politician ever done anything of that kind.”

Giuliani gave Fox News its anchor point. That may make him more popular with Republicans, but you gotta realize this was a fascist (fusion of business and government) act on Giuliani's part.