A business news cable channel planned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has reached a deal to be carried by Comcast Corp., The New York Times reported in its Tuesday editions.

While Comcast has agreed to carry the channel for its digital subscribers, a final decision on whether to start the channel has still not been made, two executives briefed on the arrangement said. The new network would be spun off from the Fox News Channel.
The Times reported that Comcast's roughly 12 million digital subscribers would get the channel as part of their service. Those subscribers, combined with the 15.5 million subscribers to DirecTV (DTV), the satellite service controlled by the News Corp., give the channel a substantial platform of as many as 27.5 million subscribers

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