Glenn Beck To 'Transition Off' Fox News Program

Source: Huffington Post

Fox News and Glenn Beck announced thast Beck will "transition off of his daily program" later this year.

From the news release:

Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts, Glenn Beck's production company, are proud to announce that they 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. Glenn intends to transition off of his daily program, the third highest rated in all of cable news, later this year.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/06/glenn-beck-to-transition-_n_845573.html

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:applause: The harder they come...

The Decline of Glenn Beck
What caused it?
James Downie
March 3, 2011 | 10:59 pm

Six months ago, Glenn Beck held his “Restoring Honor” rally on the National Mall, drawing a crowd of about 100,000. Newspapers and magazines featured the rally on front pages around the country. The next month, The New York Times Magazine devoted a cover story to him. “In record time,” the piece observed, “Beck has traveled the loop of curiosity to ratings bonanza to self-parody to sage.”

Just six months later, however, Beck seems to have traveled somewhere else entirely. His ratings and reputation are in steep decline: His show has lost more than one million viewers over the course of the past year, falling from an average of 2.9 million in January 2010 to 1.8 million in January 2011. He now ranks fifth among Fox’s six weekday talk hosts, trailing lesser-known personalities like Shepard Smith and Bret Baier. Beck’s three-hour radio show has been dropped in several major cities, including New York and Philadelphia, and has seen a ratings decline in most other markets. “It’s hard to gain a million viewers,” says Eric Boehlert, who follows Beck’s shows for the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters, “but it’s really hard to lose a million viewers.” And Beck’s fall contrasts with the fortunes of other Fox News hosts, like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, whose TV ratings stayed solid throughout 2010.

Beck’s commercial viability also seems to have suffered. His viewership among 25- to 54-year-olds, a prized advertising demographic, declined by almost one-half in 2010. An advertising boycott organized by liberal groups has caused over 300 companies—including Procter & Gamble, UPS, Coca-Cola, and Wal-Mart—to stop showing commercials during Beck’s show. The Beck brand isn’t what it used to be off the airwaves either: His most recent non-fiction book, Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth and Treasure, was his first book in eight years not to reach number one on The New York Times best-seller list.

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http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/84662/the-decline-glenn-beck

Beck has done his damage. Look at the Tea Party House of Representatives and their actions for more confirmation.

He doesn't want to be solely blamed for shutting the government, thus causing the military not to receive their checks. Thanks a lot, Turd Baggers. lol

Why in the hell doesn't faux news just quit doing shit like they do? Where in the hell is there any integrity ANYWHERE at that company.

left were mostly local ones sold by the cable company. The guy was just so crazy big legit companies didn't want to be associated with him.

you don't have to pretend.
oops. it's fox. blah blah bullshit. i am glad however that he won't be poisoning the discourse daily any more, at least not on tv

:applause:

K & R to the OP too. Woohoo!

ETA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J---aiyznGQ

He probably owns the slot and will pick his replacement. Adverttisers boycott my ass!!!! Though nationals were down, local advertising was up. This deal smells. Please DUers, don't jump the gun on this one.

I don't understand your point.

except for people that are from another planet.

"...third highest rated..."

Yes, but maybe with the least number of sponsors in all of cable news.

I will not believe he is gone until he is gone.

Sad.

Owned by News Corp... which loses money quarterly. Murdoch has to prop it up.


And the show being on in automotive repair shop waiting rooms and Motel 6 lobbies may bring ratings up, but that ain't watching.

Big Name restaurants, Dentist, Doctors and yes auto mechanics & cheap motels...It is NUTS!

At least at the places I go to. Of course, I've complained at all of those places so that may have something to do with it, particularly if others complained as well. I suspect there were at least a few more who did.

Justin Beiber can't call himself "alternative" and Fox can't play victim anymore....though we all know they will

The man has created quite the multimedia enterprise and still has the 3rd largest radio show in the country.

He makes a lot more from publishing and his radio show anyway.

Anyway, quit crushing my dreams! :-P

Evangelism seems to work well there. Now he can continue to develop his "politico-preacher" character. What an act!

This is just tv gibberish to keep the nuts out there from going postal when they can't get their daily dose of stupidity.

(not DUers) The marketplace has spoken. This type of idiocy doesn't sell anymore. Consumers of Beck's brand of propaganda and misinformation are dying off and changing the channel. Welcome to the world of "shellacking" as you would say.

Next up: Donald Trump is a guest on his own show "Celebrity Apprentice." The Donald is forced to beg his friends for donations for original finger-paintings he creates in one of his vacant properties.

A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll of likely Repub voters shows him tied with Huckabee in second place for the Repub Primary. Yeah, I know. Just when you thought the rank and file Rethugs couldn't get any weirder.

The GOP hasn't had one single sane nominee since Abraham Lincoln!!!! I swear! This will be like the 5th parade of clowns starting with Reagan. It's like a cross between Pinter and Ionesco.

Let me say right off that I have a team in this, Team Keith, Jon, Rachel, Thom and others, whom I enjoy (though frankly I'm worn out and don't pay them the attention I once did). But there's a part of the RW/LW media enterprise that does seem like a sport, and they play one another for our reactions and sponsorship.

But has it now jumped the shark? I have never been able to watch Beck for more than a minute or two because he brings out the psycho killer in me and I can't tolerate feeling that much venom toward anyone, but now are we swinging back toward serious politics and perhaps action rather than the screaming and posturing and finger pointing? I think we'd be a better country for it.

And yeah, I know it's possible that he's of to assume some other position, but he's so bizarre I can't see it. He's made his crazy bed and I hope he has to lie in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoring_Honor_rally

They used a margin of error of + or - 9,000 people. The Daily Show drew attention to the fact that most of those people were in lawn chairs with coolers taking up space.
The MSM tried to push the storyline that the crowd was in the hundreds of thousands. A more accurate estimate is roughly 50,000 obese, fat, racist, dumbed down rednecks

Just sayin' :shrug:

...read the rest of the article. It's not a good sign.

I think he "transistioned" off the planet a long time ago.

And you have to admit, he's MUCH more fun to watch than Beckkk

Fox News will continue to be Fox News and will continue to spread hate and lies. But in spite of that I can't help but be satisfied to see Beck leaving.

my guess is that Beck will be wanting the gold throne, however.

But I'll accept "transition off" just the same...

to someone:
"Why don't you just transition off".

I like it, although it's a bit more difficult to spell.

to see if I can try it out.

that is just too f---ing scarey. We really must live in a nation of crazy people.

For when you can never get enough Glenn.

The baggers were useful in the last election cycle. Unfortunately for the Repubs, though, it all got out of hand, now that some bagger candidates made it to Congress, and started spoiling the party with their tantrums and antics.

Since Fox is the official mouthpiece of the GOP, it makes sense that now they want to tack back away from the crazies.

Just my 2 cents. And hey, where exactly has Sara been lately?? They shutting her down too, maybe?

I wonder whether Murdoch and the Koch brothers are on the same team. If I had to guess, I'd assume that Murdoch is more in line with the traditional Republican party and doesn't like seeing the Koch brothers' increasing power on the right. :shrug:

Come on Fox was stifling Beck. In the era of 700 plus channels on Direct, Dish, and Comcast you know it is only a few months till the far-right has its own TV channel funded by the likes of Koch, Monsanto, et al.

more of his time and attention. Maybe he should think about a Kool-Aid stand?

...His show has lost more than one million viewers over the course of the past year, falling from an average of 2.9 million in January 2010 to 1.8 million in January 2011. He now ranks fifth among Fox’s six weekday talk hosts, trailing lesser-known personalities!!!!!!

:rofl:

n/t

the field is wide open

Trump? -- please

Romany? -- a Mormon on the ticket of the party of the South--- no
Pawlenty? - wasn't he in "The Kids in the Hall"?

Sarah? - that is just funny

Barbour? - He has the money backing him but the visual (perception) of him vs. Obama will be devastating

Paul Ryan - probably the front runner at this point


Beck knows how to create the perception. He is batshit crazy but a POTUS run is money money money in the bank.

Code for getting a rail to ride out of Dodge?

He says that Beck is off to do "bigger and better things"...

http://gbtv.com/

He's been paid mere millions while earning his benefactors billions by aiding Republican victories in Congress (spineless Democratic appeasement did the rest, but that was probably factored into the equation to begin with). Now his show is an advertising liability, so he's being put out to stud.

Thanks for that mental image.

Don't you just know that he's going to be replaced by a dozen bad clone-Becks on Fox and every lame-ass AM talk radio station?

Fox could always hire Alex Jones and George Noory, and cut out the middleman.

in a few years just like Newt is trying.

But :applause: and thanks to Colorofchange.org for their long-running campaign to remove him off the air.

Transition right out that door Becksy, and don't let it hit you on the way out.

Wolf.

He's up to something. No actual date when he's off my tv and what he's up to. Never trust someone like Beck! I just get the feeling he's up to something and he's just trying to get us off his case and to pat ourselves on the back while he does something even worse then that stupid show of his.

or make fun of myself on my own book cover

Rupert Murdoch's wife hates him and friends of hers have said she wanted him gone

The most accepted Mormon on the Right just got shelved.

Circling the evangelical wagons maybe?

On the other hand, FOX will lose more viewers by then. Can't lose here :-).

Money issues

on edit: Is there anyone who draws 1.8 million viewers for a 5 pm spot?
He may have lost a million viewers, but he still has 1.8 million

of course i know that Beck is too hot even for freaking FOX NEWS.

The other sudden cable news departure of the year following Keith Olbermann. However, beck has the higher privilege because:
- Beck never got suspended by Fox News anytime, while MSNBC did suspend Olbermann for making unauthorized political donations
- Beck has a radio show that can be heard in many places across America, Olbermann only has his FOK News Channel blog (K not X, lurking freepers)

...KO:

http://foknewschannel.com/lonesome-rhodes-mike-left-open/comment-page-2/#comment-21613

My comment is an inside joke for the DU forum members.

If you got it, okay.
If not, do not pass GO, do not collect $200, go directly to jail!!


LoL

Not good quals for a prime-time cable slot. Good-bye and good riddance.

can transition right off as far as i'm concerned.

Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

Why must we loose all the good ones to that OLIGARH!!?? WHYYYYYYY?????

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the puppet master strikes again!

this is hugh guys