O’Reilly’s explanation: I work too many hours.
Everybody else’s explanation: His ratings sucked.
On his TV show on Wednesday, he claimed he couldn’t compete with Rush. there are markets where he is on opposite Rush.
I would say O’Reilly’s radio show sucked but then again so does his TV show yet it still beats everybody.
He waffles and people can sense he’s not saying what he believes or not believing what he says. He doesn’t get outraged by the outrageous. Makes you wonder what he believes.
Because he sucks bad enough on TV alone?
Whether you like them, or not, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are radio guys who started in the medium and paid their dues for years. It’s not O’Reilly’s fault, but he was a TV guy. He just jumped into radio. Guess what, radio isn’t a medium where all conservatives succeed, no matter what. It shouldn’t be a surprise that radio guys, who live and breath that medium, do well in radio. You would ask plastic surgeon to do you heart surgery, would you?
That said, Mark Levin has always been a FRiend to this website and an avid supporter of our military and first responders.
O'Reilly is a foaming-at-the-mouth enemy to this website and the Conservative movement, and Mark is willing to publicly defy O'Reilly for disrespecting and attacking the Conservative movement.
Listen from 92:48 to 100:19 here:
http://www.marklevinshow.com/wp-content/themes/levin/player/?url=http://podloc.andomedia.com/dloadTrack.mp3?prm=2824xhttp://citadelcc.vo.llnwd.net/o29/network/Levin/MP3/levin02052009.mp3
O'Reilly LIED about and trashed Free Republic, and he compared our website to Daily Kos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO5TEvSNguQ
O'Reilly trashed Sean, Mark and Rush:
But, Mark refused to take O'Reilly's BS and fired back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1-ZgouoJso
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132144/posts
O'Reilly is a classless, worthless POS.
Well not sure what his ratings were like, but probably not anywhere near to O'Reilly's satisfaction to continue on radio, note that he only had a 2 hour radio show, whereas Hannity and Beck both do 3 hours on the radio in addition to their one hour television shows so not sure why they're able to do it but not O'Reilly.
When he called FR a hate site did it for me.I wont watch him if he was the thing on TV.What a waste of space on Fox.
Working several jobs sucks - he’s tired.
Compared even to Hannity, I found him boring.
He was even worse on the radio than he is on TV. Especially when he had a woman on the air with him...he couldn’t help but flirt with her obnoxiously the whole time.
His show failed because he is full of @#$%, and everyone knows it. The only thing that matters to BOR is BOR, and after he stuck his nose up 0bama’s idea maker, I could tolerate him no more.
I expect he will fail in tv at some point too, because his show has about two crap segments on current affairs, then about 8 segments on crap from the 50’s and pop quizzes for fox employees. Personally, I find playing video games more educational and informative than BOR in any format...
My guess is he thought why work twice as hard when he saw Obama coming in to take half. He mentioned this on the radio before. Why bust your hump so the Feds can take it? He doesn't need it anymore, he has all the money he needs.
Because He is a Pompous Ass, Pithy Enough
The few times I listened to BOR’s radio show, I got the distinct feeling that he hated the idea of having to take calls from listeners. In other words, he wasn’t comfortable with the format and it showed.