Faux may not renew Glenn Beck's contract in Dec

[RamboLiberal]

But a funny thing happened on the way from the revolution. Since last August, when he summoned more than 100,000 followers to the Washington mall for the “Restoring Honor” rally, Mr. Beck has lost over a third of his audience on Fox — a greater percentage drop than other hosts at Fox. True, he fell from the great heights of the health care debate in January 2010, but there has been worrisome erosion — more than one million viewers — especially in the younger demographic.

He still has numbers that just about any cable news host would envy and, with about two million viewers a night, outdraws all his competition combined. But the erosion is significant enough that Fox News officials are willing to say — anonymously, of course; they don’t want to be identified as criticizing the talent — that they are looking at the end of his contract in December and contemplating life without Mr. Beck.

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How could a breakup between Mr. Beck and Fox News — a bond that seemed made in pre-Apocalyptic heaven — come to pass? They were never great friends to start with: Mr. Beck came to Fox with a huge radio show and had been on CNN Headline News, so he did not owe his entire career to Fox and frequently went off-message. The sniping between Fox News executives and Mr. Beck’s team began soon after he went on the air in 2009.

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But the partnership, which has been good for both parties, may yet be repaired. On Wednesday’s show, Mr. Beck went to some lengths to demonstrate gratitude and fealty to Fox News.

“Two years ago, I was on a cable channel that no one was watching at the time, doing a show that no one was watching, and I was about to leave television. And then I had the opportunity to come and work here,” he said. “If you’re going to do news or commentary, the only place, I think in the world, the only place that really makes an impact is Fox.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/business/media/07carr.html?src=dayp

[Turbineguy]

1. He can live high on the hog

on Unemployment.

[Democrats_win]

2. Don't worry, the world is going to end on May 21, 2011. I saw it on CNN.

[okieinpain]

6. what happened to 2012.

[William769]

8. Date changed due to a scheduling conflict.

[okieinpain]

14. lol! n/t.

[madmax]

3. Who cares he's got tons of cash.

Earned spreading hate and lies. It's blood money.

[TicketyBoo]

7. I, for one, care.

I would be delighted to see his nonsense eliminated from such wide distribution.

I'm sure His Nuttiness will land somewhere else, but probably not in as highly visible a venue. I hope.

[madmax]

16. I get it.

I think he may just fade off into the sunset. Then again, maybe not, he's a egomaniac.

[Canuckistanian]

4. "good for both parties"?

Um, did they forget all those sponsors who fled Beck's show?

[asjr]

5. I think Mr Beck knows just what he is doing. He

is a first-class panderer and has the religous fundamentalists eating out of his hand. He is doing the Republicans' work for them. The more outrageous he is the more he is liked and adored. Maybe it is the sign of the times that he and the "loopy" Republicans can, with their outrageous behavior, connect with the ones who are shaped the way the Republicans bend. We can laugh at them all we want. Scott Walker, Boehner, McConnell, King, etc will try anything to get their way and one way is to keep doing what they are doing. This is sort of like the Tortoise and the Hare. We are the hare dilly-dallying around while the tortoise Republicans get the last laugh. We can shout On Wisconsin but there are too many other states in the same position. We forget that.

[Cirque du So-What]

13. Not *all* fundies

many of whom consider the religion to which Blecch converted - Mormonism - to be a heretical cult.

[HappyMe]

9. He has a pile o'cash.

He will wind up somewhere else and fux will find another yahoo.

[fishwax]

10. lol -- here's hoping -- though I'm sure fox can find someone equally bad.

:kick:

[RamboLiberal]

11. TPM

I hadn't heard that take on it. But I've heard something else from within the Fox-associated, right-wing-mediasphere. Basically a lot of chatter to the effect that as great as Beck has been in business terms, there's a pretty total appreciation at Fox corporate at this point that he's completely crazy -- as in more than the normal run of Fox News personalities -- and that they know that something either really awful or incredibly embarrassing will inevitably happen ... and probably in the pretty near future.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/03/fox_looking_to_unload_beck.php?ref=fpblg

[Kurovski]

12. He keeps using that word "news."

[spanone]

15. why wait, take the fucker off the air and make him sweep floors till dec.

[Canuckistanian]

17. Maybe they'll actually get a replacement show that BRINGS REVENUE

They can't keep running a show that LOSES MONEY because of lost advertiser cash.

Fox can't keep running this loss leader forever.

[AsahinaKimi]

18. IF, and thats a big word, If Glenn Beck were to disappear

Tomorrow, they would just find SOMEONE more Insane and more Racist then Beck. David Dukes?

[Shagbark Hickory]

19. They'll just put on someone even worse.

Don't expect this to be some kind of reform or anything.