It would not have been long before some other news organ in the 90s would have filled the void. He just got there first.
I doubt that. Not every venture would be as successful as Fox News has been. Not every entrepreneur would have stayed with an operation long enough for it to pay off.
And you may not remember, but conservatives had great hopes for CNN once upon a time. Ted Turner was supposed to be some kind of maverick who would be different from the New York - Washington consensus. How'd that turn out?