8.0/10767 votes#1 - 1995
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/30/2019
Roger Ailes joins forces with media magnate Rupert Murdoch to form Fox News Channel. Working feverishly to get ahead of the competition, Roger must do the unthinkable - put an entire network on the air in the space of six months.
Director: Kari Skogland
Writer: Tom McCarthy, Gabriel Sherman
8.0/10618 votes#2 - 2001
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/7/2019
Fox News Channel is on the cusp of passing CNN to become the #1 rated news network. Then 9/11 changes everything. Roger begins pushing the news with an agenda, and finally puts Fox on top of the ratings race.
Director: Kari Skogland
Writer: Alex Metcalf
7.9/10579 votes#3 - 2008
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/14/2019
With the election of "Barack Hussein Obama," Roger and Fox News Channel have found the ultimate enemy-one that will drive Fox's coverage as well as cement ratings at #1. What no one suspects are the hidden depths of Roger's secret world.
Director: Jeremy Podeswa
Writer: Gabriel Sherman, Jennifer Stahl
7.7/10543 votes#4 - 2009
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/21/2019
Roger finds his legacy in Joe Lindsley, a 25-year-old acolyte he hires as editor of a newspaper he bought in upstate New York. Turning this paper into a conservative news source, Roger achieves his revenge against the Obama White House.
Director: Jeremy Podeswa
Writer: John Harrington Bland
8.1/10531 votes#5 - 2012
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/28/2019
Fox News Channel is now the dominant news outlet and Roger is working the levers of his power. But he doesn't see the danger posed by Gretchen Carlson. After years of harassment by Roger, she's finally had enough.
Director: Kari Skogland
Writer: Alex Metcalf, Laura Eason
8.1/10501 votes#6 - 2015
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/4/2019
Gretchen Carlson has been secretly taping Roger’s harassment for over a year and is working with Nancy Erika Smith, a lawyer specializing in sexual harassment. Roger goes all in on candidate Donald Trump which causes conflict with Murdoch. But Roger makes a mistake—he fires Gretchen, unwittingly setting into motion not her demise, but his own.
Director: Stephen Frears
Writer: Laura Eason
8.2/10488 votes#7 - 2016
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/11/2019
Once Gretchen Carlson’s lawsuit becomes public, Roger moves into crisis mode, doing anything and everything he can to save his career and his legacy. Ultimately, it’s not enough. Roger is fired from Fox. But even as he’s lost everything, his greatest achievement eclipses him—Donald Trump wins the presidency. Limited Series Finale.
Director: Scott Z. Burns
Writer: Gabriel Sherman, Jennifer Stahl
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The rise and fall of Fox News founder Roger Ailes, focusing primarily on the past decade in which Ailes arguably became the Republican Party’s de...
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"1995" is the best rated episode of "The Loudest Voice" season 1. It scored 8/10 based on 767 votes. Directed by Kari Skogland and written by Tom McCarthy, Gabriel Sherman, it aired on 6/30/2019. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "2001".