After a terrible season, Fox is destroying the wall between networks and studios

[Commentary] 20th Century Fox, the corporation that owns the Fox TV network, has restructured itself so that Dana Walden and Gary Newman, co-presidents of 20th Century Fox TV, will now head up the Fox Television Group, which will oversee both the studio and network sides of the business.

Twin forces are pushing more and more networks toward owning more and more of their own content (or, more accurately, licensing content from corporate siblings). The first is that the ratings for network television are collapsing at an astonishing rate, at least for live broadcast. The second is that there are many, many more ways to make money off of a program on the studio side now.