Fox News and Wall Street Journal coming to Xbox 360

News Corporation will be bringing a variety of TV, news, and video apps to the Xbox 360 later this year from their most popular brands: FOX, Fox News Channel, IGN Entertainment, and The Wall Street Journal.

Andrew Yoon

January 10, 2012 7:15 AM

Xbox Live has acquired yet another entertainment partner. News Corporation will be bringing a variety of TV, news, and video apps to the Xbox 360 later this year from their most popular brands: FOX, Fox News Channel, IGN Entertainment, and The Wall Street Journal.

As with HBO Go, video content from the Fox News Channel and FOX apps will require an "authenticated" subscription from "participating" cable and satellite TV distributors. And, as with all TV apps on Xbox 360, a Live Gold membership is required.

The FOX app will give users access to on-demand availability of "leading shows," including Glee, House, New Girl, Bones, Fringe, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and more. The Fox News Channel app will let users access clips from the network and "interact" with anchors and personalities, including Shepard Smith and Bill O'Reilly. WSJ Live from The Wall Street Journal will offer "up to four total hours of live video programming each business day," from the Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Barron's, MarketWatch, SmartMoney, and AllThingsD.com. The IGN app will offer video previews, reviews, gameplay videos, live streams, and walkthroughs. You'll also be able to queue up videos from IGN.com by using a new "watch later" feature.

As with every other Xbox TV partner, all of these programs will include Kinect support. Expect these apps later this year.

Andrew Yoon

Andrew Yoon was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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January 10, 2012 7:15 AM

Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Fox News and Wall Street Journal coming to Xbox 360.

News Corporation will be bringing a variety of TV, news, and video apps to the Xbox 360 later this year from their most popular brands: FOX, Fox News Channel IGN Entertainment, and The Wall Street Journal.
- TheMongbat
  
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  January 10, 2012 7:55 AM
  
  YES! Our dark takeover of the happy gaming world begins! All is happening as prophecied....
  
  But does anyone actually watch their news off Xbox? The whole reason I go online to check the news is because I don't WANT to listen to some idiot read the day's events to me. I can read much faster than they can talk, and with less commercials.
  - Volatus32x
    
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    January 10, 2012 7:59 AM
    
    I want a scrolling feed of the market like on the CNBC Real-Time app.
    
    That would be sweet.
  - Haxim
    
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    January 10, 2012 8:00 AM
    
    But it's not just watching the news. The app will let you "interact" with anchors and personalities!
    - MagicWishMonkey
      
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      January 10, 2012 8:09 AM
      
      Press "A" if you disapprove of Obama's socialist plan to ruin America!
      - UberKalden
        
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        January 10, 2012 9:02 AM
        
        haha. this was great
      - jayacheess
        
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        January 10, 2012 9:43 AM
        
        Press "B" if you agree that Obama is destroying the Nation's military readiness over seas
        
        The only way to win is not to play.
      - SerratedDrums
        
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        January 10, 2012 10:49 AM
        
        I'm button mashing "A"!
    - TheMongbat
      
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      January 10, 2012 9:03 AM
      
      By the time I get done "typing" on the Xbox they'll be three stories down the road.
      - Haxim
        
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        January 10, 2012 10:08 AM
        
        Typing?
  - Deathlove
    
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    January 10, 2012 8:14 AM
    
    I don't, but I do think it's a good in-roads to getting rid of the cable box, if that's your thing.
- Mad Brahmin Disease
  
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  January 10, 2012 8:00 AM
  
  Wait what? Why not MSNBC first?
  - jeffcox111
    
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    January 10, 2012 8:13 AM
    
    Yeah that kinda blew my mind too.
  - Korban
    
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    January 10, 2012 8:32 AM
    
    i really can't get past this
  - XAVdeMATOS
    
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    January 10, 2012 9:58 AM
    
    I thought MSNBC already had a clip app in there somewhere. I saw it next to Dilbert!
  - SerratedDrums
    
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    January 10, 2012 10:48 AM
    
    MSNBC blows that's why! I think they already have an app on 360 anyway?
- larrymadill
  
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  January 10, 2012 8:19 AM
  
  Xbox Play Bigoted, Right Wing Hate Speech!
- burningpantsman
  
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  January 10, 2012 8:28 AM
  
  where is my HBO GO app? these other apps are garbage
- [deleted] 1719642755
  
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  January 10, 2012 8:29 AM
  
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- Saleck
  
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  January 10, 2012 9:09 AM
  
  Yay! Now you don't even have to change channel to get your daily dose of big business right-wing propaganda and cartoons that should've ended back in the 90s!
- gokart.
  
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  January 10, 2012 9:40 AM
  
  not isolating these as their own services seems totally backwards. are the companies that control these them so archaic & behind that they won't even open themselves up to additional business for fear of cannibalizing their fucking chuck wagon?
- [deleted] 744961335
  
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  January 10, 2012 10:06 AM
  
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  - SerratedDrums
    
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    January 10, 2012 10:52 AM
    
    Now with more...MOLECULES!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NstQnUkU0dw
- GigiLeCheshire
  
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  January 10, 2012 11:38 AM
  
  Does this mean only Neo-Cons can play Xbox360s now?
  
  "Please enter 70% or higher effectiveness scathing remark about Obama before continuing."