It's probably worth pointing out that many channels already label their shows that people think of as "news" as part of their entertainment offerings. Last time I checked (several years ago), the only show that Fox (FNC) called "news" was the brief 30min (or was it 60min?) segment in a terrible mid-morning (~10:30AM) time slot.

While most of the cable "news" channels are similar (to varying degrees), this distinction was a core element of how Fox would push their propaganda memes ("taking points").

The "real news" show in the morning would make a vague report that technically stated some of the facts of the story, but generally left it vague. This was done so the afternoon pundits could make wild claims (the propaganda) that blatantly misrepresents the story, by drawing self-serving inferences from the earlier story. This was disguised by claiming "Sources say ...", conveniently leaving out that the same people often were those "sources". The evening entertainment-show-with-a-news-like-name now had multiple "sources" to draw from, continuing the reinforcement.