Competition from the likes of Apple, Amazon and Vudu, a streaming service owned by Wal-Mart, is increasingly fierce; Dish Network, which plucked Blockbuster out of bankruptcy earlier this year, on Friday announced a Blockbuster-branded streaming and DVD-by-mail service.
In the old days, election nights were a fierce three-network race to project a winner.
The NBA's national television deal is up for renewal in 2015-16, and fierce competition between networks is set to double the $930m a year the league currently receives from its broadcast partners.
Rather, he said, "we're saying, 'We've got a track record and we think we've got some good product offerings.' " But while PBS was once the sole source of educational television, it now has fierce competitors in networks like Discovery, the Learning Channel and the History Channel.
Despite the fierce competitiveness of his network, his rivals describe him as collegial.
Some of those programs, like the Channel One television network, attracted fierce opposition from educational leaders and parents, who said that such commercial-laden programs wasted classroom time and tax dollars.
The government signed a long-awaited contract with three firms to upgrade London's 140-year-old underground rail network, despite fierce opposition to the project, which is to cost $7 billion over its first 7 1/2 years.
Seated behind his clean desk, the television monitors silently running, Ailes sounded less like the man who created a fierce, right-leaning news network than like someone who sadly bears the burdens of a journalistic reformer.
And if that weren't enough, Aereo is still in the midst of a fierce legal battle with network broadcasters.
I'd love to say that the new episodes were so out there, so scathing and fierce that the Cartoon Network lost its nerve.
