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Glenn Beck Leaving Fox News In 2012?

UpstateNYBill said:
The Hemmoroid with Ears is the Charlie Sheen of Fox News and the conservative moment. He is highly erratic, an embarrassment, has a history of substance abuse, has spewed anti sematicism. The only thing the HWE hasn't had is porn stars flocking by his side, but then even porn stars have standards.

Other conservatives have called him out and repudiated him. His ratings are in decline. If CBS can cut ties with Charlie Sheen, Fox can severe ties with Glenn Beck.
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Look at MR.ED of MSNBC he looks Unstable too like Glenn Beck. I noticed that MR.Ed and Glenn Beck are one in the same but with different ideologies. MSNBC and Fox need to really check their pundits because when the Daily Show and media critics get clips of them they look even worse than Sheen. In some ways I end up thinking that Sheen is a stable man after watching Beck of Fox and ED of MSNBC spew out their propaganda.
 
An interesting follow-up:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/warning-...ch-fox-news-bigwig-foreshadowing-big-plans-2/

The hiring of [SVP of Production/Development at Fox News Joel] Cheatwood makes the most sense in a scenario in which Glenn Beck is no longer on Fox News, an indication that all of the smoke surrounding this relationship reveals a deeper fire suggesting that the relationship is coming to an end.

Yes, this is the same Joel Cheatwood who was the news director who pioneered the "if it bleeds, it leads" era in the late '80's/early '90's.
 
DToTheJ said:
An interesting follow-up:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/warning-...ch-fox-news-bigwig-foreshadowing-big-plans-2/


Yes, this is the same Joel Cheatwood who was the news director who pioneered the "if it bleeds, it leads" era in the late '80's/early '90's.
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All due respect, but the "if it bleeds it leads" era in local news was "pioneered" at least a decade before the 80s - with the Action News and Eyewitness News style local newscasts of the late 60s and 70s.

Prime examples - NewsScene on KGO-TV (San Francisco) with Van Amburg as early as 1972.
 
Lkeller said:
DToTheJ said:
An interesting follow-up:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/warning-...ch-fox-news-bigwig-foreshadowing-big-plans-2/


Yes, this is the same Joel Cheatwood who was the news director who pioneered the "if it bleeds, it leads" era in the late '80's/early '90's.
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All due respect, but the "if it bleeds it leads" era in local news was "pioneered" at least a decade before the 80s - with the Action News and Eyewitness News style local newscasts of the late 60s and 70s.

Prime examples - NewsScene on KGO-TV (San Francisco) with Van Amburg as early as 1972.
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Yeah, Action News definitely was "sensational" and "in your face" at the time.
 
One thing I do know is that Cheatwood was notorious for the practice at Miami's WSVN. So maybe he's not the Howard Stern of the genre. ::)
 
There's a possibility Glenn Beck could be going the Oprah route - i.e. a cable network patterned after his likeness.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/business/media/23beck.html?src=mv

Fox News would crush it handily. What programming would you fill the time with on "Glenn Beck TV"? A video version of S.E. Cupp's program on Beck's subscription portion of his website? A news block based on The Blaze? Dr. Gene Scott reruns?
 
DToTheJ said:
What programming would you fill the time with on "Glenn Beck TV"? A video version of S.E. Cupp's program on Beck's subscription portion of his website? A news block based on The Blaze? Dr. Gene Scott reruns?
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Personally, Dr. Scott's a little bit too classy to be associated with Beck and his ilk.
 
I suppose you have a point there... wait, I forgot - they can show the Andy Griffith movie "A Face In The Crowd" - at least, that's what they'd show if Olbermann were programming it (he usually refers to Beck as "Lonesome Rhodes").

I guess this leads in to the next logical question: Should a Glenn Beck cable network get off the ground, how soon does it go the now-traditional route of many other basic cable channels and start airing movies?
 
A Glenn Beck cable network? That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard - and it has nothing to do with his politics. I'd say the same thing about a Keith Olberman network.

Oprah's a litle different - her Harpo Productions has a track record of producing other shows, so she has a infrastructure to ramp up other productions for OWN. And even she's having problems from what I understand.

As far as I know, Beck has nothing but his chalkboard and some nutty theories.
 
Lkeller said:
As far as I know, Beck has nothing but his chalkboard and some nutty theories.
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He could take on Charlie Sheen as a partner and call it WackoNet. ;D
 
Lkeller said:
A Glenn Beck cable network? That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard - and it has nothing to do with his politics. I'd say the same thing about a Keith Olberman network.

Oprah's a litle different - her Harpo Productions has a track record of producing other shows, so she has a infrastructure to ramp up other productions for OWN. And even she's having problems from what I understand.

As far as I know, Beck has nothing but his chalkboard and some nutty theories.
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Look at Mr.Ed of MSNBC he been blasted by Media Critics and The Daily Show for being the MSNBC version of Glenn Beck. He has some nutty theories too but under a different political ideologies. Glenn Beck, Mr. Ed, Keith Olbermann and Hannity, and Maddow cannot have their own Networks their reputation depends on being on MSNBC, and Fox.
 
Guys ..lets consider the source of this story, New york Times and Drudge

Drudge had a show that shall we say didnt last too long on FNC..

and the NYT has been jealous of Fox News for a long time
 
Well, Rush did have some TV experience with his syndicated show in the mid-90's - lasted a heck of a lot longer than Drudge did on TV, that's for sure... But given that Rush is more of a trailblazer in radio, if he were to make a drastic move, he'd probably follow Stern to satellite - but right now, he's locked in until the end of the next Presidential term...

As far as Beck, I'd see an expansion of his Internet "Insider Extreme" channel more feasible than a 24/7 cable network.
 
@KeithE4: If Sheen were to join forces with a radio host on a major project, it would probably be Alex Jones. You can call it "The Bullhorn and the Machete." ;D
 
With the narrow casting on cable, why not. He cauld call in GBN and merge with Trinity and CBN. Objectively speaking, I think Beck is much more a televangelist than a news pundit. I don't need MSNBC to tell me this. He should be on a network that raves on about the Rapture and endtimes. He is today's Father Coughlin
 
MsMusicRadio said:
He should be on a network that raves on about the Rapture and endtimes. He is today's Father Coughlin
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Some people know their trees, and can take you for a walk through the forest and name them all, and tell which ones belong to "families" of trees.

Some people know their birds and can take you for a walk through the forest and name the birds either by sound or by sight.

Some of us can walk you through the world of televangelists and radio preachers and sorth them by families of theology. Most of them are pretty "bigoted" about who they want to share a network with. Beck would still have to be on his own network. His theology would not be compatible with anyone else currently roosting on a network.
 
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