Roger Ailes

Roger Eugene Ailes (born May 15, 1940) is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer FOX News Channel and the FOX Business Network, as well as Chairman of Fox Television Stations and Twentieth Television. He has oversight over all national operations for FOX News and Television, serves as a senior adviser to Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corporation.

Since joining FOX News in 1996, Ailes created FOX’s first weekly public affairs show, “FOX News Sunday” and oversaw the successful launch of FOX News Channel and Fox Business.

Prior to FOX, Ailes was president of CNBC, making it the fastest growing major cable network in America and a leading source for business news, tripling ratings and increasing profits from $9 million to well over $100 million. Ailes also oversaw CNBC’s 1995 worldwide expansion to Europe and Asia. At the same time, he was president of America’s Talking, which later became MSNBC.

He was a three-year term as a board member of the National Hemophilia Foundation, a member of the Director’s Guild of America and a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Gettysburg.

Ailes earned his bachelor’s and received an honorary doctorate from Ohio University.