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Fox dumps Beck

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radiowizard101

It's due to a combination of LOWER numbers and the fact that nobody wants to advertise on the NUT'S show. Afterall, this is a business. Wonder if his radio gig is next.
 
radiowizard101 said:
It's due to a combination of LOWER numbers and the fact that nobody wants to advertise on the NUT'S show. Afterall, this is a business. Wonder if his radio gig is next.
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His show is ending by mutual agreement (although you are probably right as to why), but he's not leaving Fox News Channel completely. He'll be working on other projects for the network.
 
It is amazing how both the professional press as well as the people on message boards are running to herald Fox's supposed dumping of Glenn Beck.

While his detractors would love to say his decreased viewership is the reason, it isn't. True, Glenn's numbers have fallen from his peak, but do you think that perhaps the same is happening to most news-oriented broadcasts? Despite the budgetary and union quarrels, we're still in the midpoint lull of an election cycle.

Glenn's numbers are still way ahead of his time-slot competitors at CNN and MSNBC. Way ahead. Check MediaBistro/TVNewser.

It's been a long time since some bigger advertisers dropped him. If Fox couldn't sell the show, he would have been off the air a year ago.

I'm guessing he's just flat out tired of the schedule. It's hard to do a three hour radio show in the mid-morning, and wait until 5:00 p.m. to do a live TV show. (Glenn's HLN show aired at 8:00 p.m. but taped at 3:00 p.m.) I also speculate that health issues he's been having with his eyes is probably limiting what he can do workwise.

And besides, he's pretty much proven he can successfully keep an audience at an hour that usually isn't conducive to that. He doesn't need to prove it anymore. I'm guessing he just feels like "he's done."
 
Talk show host, Michael Smerconish, who is based at WPHT 1210 in Philadelphia and is now on nationally, seemed to hint there is more going on with Beck, which will be revealed later. I wish he would have discussed it. Additionally, he predicts a trend in the reduction of the all left / all right polarizing type of talk shows.

Every trend does come to an end, but does anyone else have any information or comments on this. Incidentally, Beck's former flagship was the same 1210 before he moved to New York.
 
Just checking in to see if Holland stopped by to say "I told you so" yet. I see he has yet to make an appearance must still be recovering from the binge he and Big Eddie must have went on to celebrate.
 
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