Fox’s FS1 Leader to Rely On Opinion-Based Programming

New York Times: Under Jamie Horowitz, a strategy has crystallized at FS1, the cable sports network of 21st Century Fox. First, it hired opinionated personalities like Colin Cowherd and Jason Whitlock. Then, it euthanized a version of “Fox Sports Live,” a misbegotten knockoff of ESPN’s “SportsCenter,” and replaced it with another. And last month, Skip Bayless, the 64-year-old co-star of the ESPN2 debate show “First Take,” decided that he would join FS1 for a reported salary of $5.5 million and a signing bonus of $4 million.