Ensuring that three satellite channels could be received by television sets worldwide, hundreds of foreign correspondents, and as many as five hundred headquarters staff based in Washington.
Although none of this came out of Wolfe Tuck's own pocket, as the CEO of VOX News network, he still couldn't help but feel nervous. It meant that each day VOX was on air, it burnt through more money than an average person could earn in a lifetime.
Indeed, Tommy's limited news network was called VOX, and in Tommy's words, the "V" stood for Wolfe Tuck. VOX was the wolf, FOX was the fox, signifying that one day their American Gray Wolf would swallow up the fox that was FOX.
Big talk, quick to prepare, but the actual performance of VOX after it started broadcasting was very poor. Today is January 4, 1989, and VOX News Channel has been broadcasting globally for a month, yet it only has a dismal 1.6 million subscribers. Not only were the numbers dismal; the reputation was a mess too.
