Sources: Fox News Has Decided Bill OReilly Has to Go
Source: NY Mag
Sources: Fox News Has Decided Bill OReilly Has to Go
By Gabriel Sherman
The Murdochs have decided Bill OReillys 21-year run at Fox News will come to an end. According to sources briefed on the discussions, network executives are preparing to announce OReillys departure before he returns from an Italian vacation on April 24. Now the big questions are how the exit will look and who will replace him.
Wednesday morning, according to sources, executives are holding emergency meetings to discuss how they can sever the relationship with the countrys highest-rated cable-news host without causing collateral damage to the network. The board of Fox News parent company, 21st Century Fox, is scheduled to meet on Thursday to discuss the matter.
Sources briefed on the discussions say OReillys exit negotiations are moving quickly. Right now, a key issue on the table is whether he would be allowed to say good-bye to his audience, perhaps the most loyal in all of cable (OReillys ratings have ticked up during the sexual-harassment allegations). Fox executives are leaning against allowing him to have a sign-off, sources say. The other main issue on the table is money. OReilly recently signed a new multiyear contract worth more than $20 million per year. When Roger Ailes left Fox News last summer, the Murdochs paid out $40 million, the remainder of his contract.
Read more: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/sources-fox-news-has-decided-bill-oreilly-has-to-go.html
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)people, especially women, his fans will be angry that he has to face any level of discipline for his horrible life.
Of course he is a very rich man, lives a life most of us cant imagine, so he wins.
Stuart G
(38,448 posts)dalton99a
(81,598 posts)NewRedDawn
(790 posts)cesspool of propaganda collapses!
AllaN01Bear
(18,429 posts)so long bill o liely.
Hula Popper
(374 posts)don't show up on msnbc...
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)louis-t
(23,297 posts)Shitheads that network execs are.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)"Fuckin thing SUCKS
I dunno, I dunno, I dunno FUCK!"
- with props to whoever mixed this great old tune!
captain queeg
(10,248 posts)Billy will find some shit hole that would love to have him and let him fill the airwaves with hate and ignorance. But, its not going to be a high roller like FOX. Fox makes a lot of money, and not much from the trailer trash that loves Bill. Anywhere he ends up will have things like beer and pickup truck accessories for sponsors. Sorry to anyone who drinks a little beer and has a hobby that requires a pickup. Not talking about you, you know the type I am referring to. Of course none of them would be reading this...except to troll. And only after they could find someone who could interpret 3-syllable words for them.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Dump likes him and will likely oblige with a plum post. Paris is already taken; how about the Caymen Islands?
Or he can be a White House adviser on women's issues.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)lots of fine folk live in trailers
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)brooklynite
(94,739 posts)You know, something different.
PatSeg
(47,605 posts)cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)of her ass with ease.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,796 posts)Then... when 45 does go down we can celebrate all over again.