Posted on 11/24/2008 10:36:20 AM PST by DCBryan1
FOX News Channel’s (FNC) Alan Colmes will relinquish his role as co-host of Hannity & Colmes at the end of the year.
In announcing his decision, Colmes said, “I approached Bill Shine (FNC’s Senior Vice President of Programming) earlier this year about wanting to move on after 12 years to develop new and challenging ways to contribute to the growth of the network. Although it’s bittersweet to leave one of the longest marriages on cable news, I’m proud that both Sean (Hannity) and I remained unharmed after sitting side by side, night after night for so many years.”
Colmes will continue to have a presence on FNC as he will serve as a liberal commentator on a variety of FOX News programming, including Foxnews.com’s The Strategy Room and continue hosting his radio program, The Alan Colmes Show on FOX Talk, a division of FOX News Radio. He will also begin developing a weekend program.
Shine said, “We’re very sorry to see Alan reach this decision but we understand his desire to seek other creative challenges in his career. We value his incredible hard work in making Hannity & Colmes the most successful debate program on cable news and we’re going to miss him on the show. Thankfully, he will begin developing a weekend pilot for us.”
FOX News Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Roger Ailes added, “Alan is one of the key reasons why FOX News has been such a remarkable success. We’re sad to see him leave the program but we look forward to his ongoing contributions to the network.”
Hannity & Colmes is the only FNC program which has remained in the same timeslot for 12 years, catapulting to number one in 2003 and never relinquishing the top spot. The second highest-rated program in cable news behind only The O’Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes averaged 3.3 million viewers nightly for the Nielsen month of October and is poised to mark 60 consecutive months at number one at the end of November.
Hannity added, “Not only has Alan been a remarkable co-host, he’s been a great friend which is rare in this industry — I’ll genuinely miss sparring with such a skillful debate partner.”
Throughout his 12 year tenure on Hannity & Colmes, Colmes has interviewed numerous key political figures, including: President Elect Barack Obama, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), DNC Chairman Howard Dean and former Vice President Al Gore.
FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour general news service covering breaking news as well as political, entertainment and business news. For nearly seven years, FNC has been the most watched cable news channel in the nation. Owned by News Corp., FNC is available in more than 90 million homes.
NO WAY IN THE STRONGEST TERMS same for Beckel
GET Powers
Juan Williams... would be fun seeing this guy get whipped up on by the right every night... Juan will soon run out of reasons to defend B.H.O.’s Jimmy Carter-esque polices.
I hated Alan. Til I found out he was leaving. Now I kind of miss him...
But I’ll miss Brit Hume more. I can’t imagine cable news without Brit Hume.
Oh, the Lord is SO GOOD. I bet Hannity’s show’s ratings will skyrocket. It was so hard to mute Alan EVERY time he spoke. A very demanding chore if I wanted to watch H&C.
“BRING IN KIRSTEN POWERS!! MUCH EASIER ON THE EYES!”
Yes, and at least Kirsten does not state outright lies to defend her arguements and has my respect.
So does Alan.
This is a good time to replace Colmes with a conservative. Then they can let the liberal guests do the defending.
How about this, noob? Alan Colmes is as ugly as his politics and his debating style. Your other posts seem to indicate you prefer Alan to Sarah Palin. What’s up with that, noob?
That picture is perfect!
Since when did you become the Party Police?
See post #148.
Guess I'm just too used to ugly.
Alan=No Loss.
Maybe they’ll hire Al Franken after he loses the recount (crossing fingers).
Typical liberal mindset.
Afraid of anyone who doesn't share their viewpoint and sees them as a threat. This explains the vitriolic hatred spewed by the left. Demonizing perceived threats in order to justify excessive responses that are otherwise unsubstantiated.
Must be some kind of mental illness...
Beckel is a violent thug with a criminal past. He lies, blusters, shouts down his opponents while spouting RAT talking points, worse than Colmes. Unfortunately, somebody at FOX seems to like him, but I detest him. I loathe Colmes, but I’d rather see him than Beckel.
have not been watching FOX for almost a month now, but do watch Greta and Cavuto on occasion. I was a FOX addict 24/7 and can't believe how easy it was to break that habit... Allen is a prime example of LIBERAL, unable to stomach him...he made me very ill feeling, so his leaving is GOOD,,,
“But where ever will they find another leftist idiot to take his place? /s”
Don’t worry. There are more of them than cockroaches in a getto.
Hey Alan.
Don’t go away mad, just go away.
I guess he’s had his fun attacking the administration all these years. Now that he would have to play “defense” for Obama-Pelosi, he wants to change the game taking his ball and going to play someplace else.
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