Liked it till Fox News default

Used to be that when I opened the app nothing automatically played at the top of the screen, plenty of room to scroll through the stations. Then they changed it and the top half of the screen was taken up by a channel playing immediately, automatically. Seemed it was the last channel Id been viewing? Anyway its changed and now automatically gives you the Fox News channel (which I dont watch and have never watched) until or unless you choose another station. Does Fox pay for that to happen or is it a political choice by someone at DirectTV?

McG_onSax about DIRECTV, v5.0.105