FNC & Mercury Radio Arts announce new agreement (Glenn Beck to transition off daily tv program)

The Blaze ^ | April 6, 2011 | N/A

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Details forthcoming...

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The Blaze's server malfunctioning at the moment...

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Click The Pic

[Old Teufel Hunden]

The blaze is up and running and I don’t see the story. The link you have says page not found.

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Premature posting by Beck staffers at The Blaze??

[ExSoldier]

The rumor mills have been grumbling about this coming for some time. Did I hear he might try to go the OPRAH route and start his own channel? Something like that.

[RatherBiased.com]

This is what was originally posted there:

FOX NEWS AND MERCURY RADIO ARTS ANNOUNCE NEW AGREEMENT

(New York, NY) 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.

Roger Ailes, Charman and CEO of Fox News said, “Glenn Beck is a powerful communicator, a creative entrepreneur and a true success by anybody’s standards. I look forward to continuing to work with him.”

Glenn Beck said: “I truly believe that America owes a lot to Roger Ailes and Fox News. I cannot repay Roger for the lessons I’ve learned and will continue to learn from him and I look foward to starting this new phase of our partnership.”

Joe Cheatwood, SVP/Development at Fox News, will be joining Mercury Radio Arts effective April 24, 2011. Part of his role as EVP will be to manage the partnership and serve as a liasiaon with the Fox News Channel.

Roger Ailes said: “Joe is a good friend and one of the most talented and creative executives in the business. Over the past four years I have consistently valued his input and advice and that will not stop as we work with him in his new role.

“Glenn Beck” is consistently the third highest rated program on cable news. For the 27 months that “Glenn Beck” has aired on Fox News, the program has averaged more than 2.2 million total viewers and 563,000 viewers 25-54 years old, numbers normally associated with shows airing in primetime, not at 5pm. “Glenn Beck” ahs dominated all of its cable news competitors since launch.

About Fox News

Fox News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour general news service covering breaking news as well as political, business and entertainment news. For more than 100 consecutive months, FNC has been the most-watched cable news channel in the country. Owned by News Corp., FNC is available in more than 90 million homes.

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Please feel free to remove this thread as it would appear The Blaze has taken the story/link down for some reason.

[Beaten Valve]

http://read.bi/eU4ndu

[Dr. Scarpetta]

April 6, 2011, 12:37 pm Glenn Beck to End Daily Fox News Program
By BRIAN STELTER
Glenn Beck will end his daily Fox News Channel program later this year.

“His departure was jointly announced on Wednesday by Fox and Mr. Beck’s company, Mercury Radio Arts.

The companies said they would “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.”

As expected, a senior Fox News executive, Joel Cheatwood, will join Mr. Beck at Mercury Radio Arts.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/glenn-beck-to-end-daily-fox-news-program/

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Well then, perhaps it’s a real story The Blaze just isn’t ready to post yet.

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Drudge Siren.

[manc]

Beck and Kelly are the only ones I give time for now.

Matha Mc ,Shep smith the fairy, Hannity the coward who will not mention conservative social issues and is a fraud, O.R big arrogant gobshite are all the ones who need to go for good.

FOX has been going down for some time due to them trying to please media matters, Soros and obama

[Bidimus1]

One less Romney hack, on the air. no great loss..

[CaptSkip]

I'd say don't pull the story. It was on the Blaze for a moment...then the Blaze went dead, and came back up without the story...but it was picked up by Ben Smith at Politico and Twitters hit it too.

[DTogo]

When Beck sticks to his chalkboards he provides an invaluable and very educational service.

[Marty62]

This makes sense. Moving from the circus acts like O’Really and Hannity. Special reports is more the genre for Beck.

[manc]

media matters, Soros , liberals, socialists , communists and the establishment GOP plus the bigots towards his religion will be happy is Beck goes that is for sure

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Glenn Beck will end his daily Fox News Channel program later this year.

His departure was jointly announced in a statement on Wednesday by Fox and Mr. Beck’s company, Mercury Radio Arts. The statement did not specify an end date for the show, called “Glenn Beck,” which has been telecast at 5 p.m. on Fox News since early 2009.

Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts, which have sometimes clashed over the making of “Glenn Beck,” 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,” the companies said in the statement.

As expected, a senior Fox News executive, Joel Cheatwood, will join Mr. Beck at Mercury Radio Arts starting later this month.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/glenn-beck-to-end-daily-fox-news-program/?hp

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One less Romney hack, on the air. no great loss..
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One less afterbirther hack, on the air. No great loss.....

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Looks like it might be for real. I have to admit, I think this might be a good idea. I was an avid Beck watcher on TV for a while. However, over time it appears to me his format is possibly not meant for a daily type show. I have to admit, I now watch a couple times a week at most and it is not must see at 5:00 PM anymore. Sometimes his constant negativity is a bit of a downer. Sure, we have to know this stuff, but presentation is everything. If you're always depressing your audience, it's not good. His specials I suspect will be don't miss TV.