"I thought the company really belonged inside Fox, where it would be able to take advantage of the direct synergies that can be created between wholly owned companies, " he says.

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Muto's short-lived tenure as the Fox "mole" wasn't particularly well thought-out in the first place.

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Nevertheless, Fox's COO Chase Carey is perturbed enough by the mere thought of Aereo getting its way, that he's already claiming that the network will go dark in favor of becoming a cable channel -- if and when OTA network streaming over the internet is completely legalized, that is.

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