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Title: Glenn Beck to End Daily Fox News Program (starting a “new phase”)
Source:
The New York Times
URL Source: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.c ... end-daily-fox-news-program/?hp
Published: Apr 6, 2011
Author: BRIAN STELTER
Post Date: 2011-04-06 13:35:16 by Hondo68
Keywords: departure jointly announced, Mercury Radio Arts, Media Matters Obama racist
Views: 3176
Comments: 7
Glenn Beck will end his daily Fox News Channel program later this year. His departure was jointly announced in a statement on Wednesday by Fox and Mr. Beck's company, Mercury Radio Arts. The statement did not specify an end date for the show, called "Glenn Beck," which has been telecast at 5 p.m. on Fox News since early 2009. Mr. Beck's contract with Fox ends in December. Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts, which have sometimes clashed over the making of "Glenn Beck," will "work together to develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the Fox News Channel as well as content for other platforms including Fox News’ digital properties," the companies said in the statement. As expected, a senior Fox News executive, Joel Cheatwood, will join Mr. Beck at Mercury Radio Arts starting later this month. The statement was briefly posted on The Blaze, a Web site owned by Mr. Beck, but it was then taken down. Representatives for Fox and Mr. Beck did not immediately explain why. Mr. Beck is a hugely popular figure on Fox News, averaging 2.2 million viewers each weekday, though his ratings have fallen somewhat in the last year. He is beloved by his fans for speaking out against what he sees as threats from progressives. His opponents -- and there are many -- condemn him for his conspiratorial views and apocalyptic predictions. Almost immediately after Mr. Beck's announcement, the progressive group Media Matters for America, which combats Fox on a daily basis, said it was "no surprise" that he was leaving, given that many advertisers had shunned Mr. Beck's show ever since he labeled President Obama a racist in the summer of 2009. (Fox said that the advertisers simply moved over to other programs on the network.) Mr. Beck has been contemplating an exit from Fox for some time. Two of the post-Fox options he has considered, according to people who have spoken about it with him, are a partial or wholesale takeover of a cable channel, or an expansion of his subscription video service on the Web. His company has been staffing up — making Web shows, some of which have little or nothing to do with Mr. Beck, and charging a monthly subscription for access to the shows. Mr. Beck also hosts a syndicated radio show in the morning. He was estimated to earn about $32 million in total revenues in 2009, the first year that he worked at Fox. In the statement on Wednesday, Mr. Beck said he would be starting a "new phase" of a partnership with Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News. "I truly believe that America owes a lot to Roger Ailes and Fox News," he said. Mr. Ailes said in the statement, "Glenn Beck is a powerful communicator, a creative entrepreneur and a true success by anybody’s standards. I look forward to continuing to work with him."
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
I didn't take it seriously til I actually read something from Fox and Beck. Now that I have, damn, that man (Beck) just made a huge financial deal that makes what he's done to date look like peanuts. Good for him.
I hear you knockin...go back where you been....
I have no doubt that you actually believe this...but had you read the actual article you will find that there is no inked deal anywhere...
Apparently not. Oh yeah, he'll soon be making as much as Keith Olbermann makes at algoreTV.
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... I can understand not liking Beck. I can't understand displaying stupidity in relation to him, as you do here, however.
I hear you knockin...go back where you been....
Chuckles...
Apparently not. Good for him. Yes - ditto. No one out there has ever analyzed the liberal/left agenda and presented/exposed it in such a unique way. Power to Beck.
Power to Beck. No one on television, anyway. Coulter documented it, so did Malkin and a half dozen others I can cite over the past three or four decades. I wasn't a huge fan of the television show...I think perhaps due to spending a lot of time each day on political topics, after I log off I just want to 'let it go' til the morning. Thats why I don't bother posting evenings or weekends like others do. Can't let it eat you up 24/7/365, lest you become insane.
I hear you knockin...go back where you been....
#2. To: Badeye (#1)
(Edited)
Now that I have, damn, that man (Beck) just made a huge financial deal that makes what he's done to date look like peanuts.
Inarticulate Insights,
By Boofer
#3. To: war, Badeye (#2)
(Beck) just made a huge financial deal
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
#4. To: hondo68 (#3)
Oh yeah, he'll soon be making as much as Keith Olbermann makes at algoreTV.
#5. To: hondo68 (#3)
Inarticulate Insights,
By Boofer
#6. To: Badeye (#1)
I didn't take it seriously til I actually read something from Fox and Beck. Now that I have, damn, that man (Beck) just made a huge financial deal that makes what he's done to date look like peanuts.
#7. To: Liberator (#6)
No one out there has ever analyzed the liberal/left agenda and presented/exposed it in such a unique way.
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