Dwindling viewership was not the station's only problem. The channel was regularly criticized for breaching Britain's strict television code.

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In 2015, a Fox News pundit's observations about the threat of terrorism in Europe prompted several complaints. Steve Emerson, described by Fox News as a terrorism expert, said Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, was “totally Muslim,” a place “where non-Muslims just simply don't go in.” Those comments, demonstrably untrue, prompted social media ridicule.

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Even then-Prime Minister David Cameron weighed in, calling Emerson “clearly an idiot.”

Fox apologized but Ofcom, the British telecommunications regulator, ruled that the network had committed a “serious breach” of the British television code.

Last year, the regulator dinged the network again for airing pro-Brexit views on the day of the referendum. (Rules ban networks from airing any segments on election and referendum issues during polling.) Also in 2016, Ofcom noted that Fox News repeatedly violated the requirement that news programs offer impartial coverage and give time to different views when it came to Donald Trump.

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The regulator pointed to three episodes of Sean Hannity's nightly show, which “included a number of highly critical statements” about candidate Hillary Clinton. The show referred to her as “the queen of corruption” and “reckless and crooked.” It also aired clips of Trump calling her refugee plan “insane.”

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“We considered that the programs presented an overwhelmingly one-sided view [in support of Trump] on a matter of major political controversy and a major matter relating to current public policy,” Ofcom said at the time. “There was no unanimous support expressed for Donald Trump and his campaign,” it added, but there was “a high degree of unanimity in the viewpoints expressed within the programs.”

Most recently, Fox got into trouble in Britain for failing to clearly label a segment on “Fox & Friends” as advertising.

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But some critics suggest there are more nefarious intentions behind Fox News being pulled off the air in Britain. 21st Century Fox, led by Rupert Murdoch, is trying to take over Sky, a satellite company that reaches 22 million customers in Europe. In June, the deal was delayed by British regulators, who wanted to review it to see whether it would give the Murdochs too much control over Britain's media landscape. (Already, the family owns three U.K. newspapers: the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times.)