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Ailes 'Fuming' at Fox News Channel
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Posted on 06/27/2006 9:27:22 AM PDT by doesnt suffer fools gladly

Ailes 'Fuming' at Fox News Channel

Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes is reportedly "on the warpath” about his network’s recent ratings slide – and has given notice to staffers that he’s willing to clean house, according to a report in Broadcasting & Cable.

The cable news channel’s overall prime-time ratings are off 8 percent in the second quarter of this year, and down 22 percent in viewers ages 25 to 54. The first quarter was also disappointing.

Rival CNN is also down, but only 2 percent overall in the second quarter and 18 percent in the 25-54 age group.

Ailes is said to be "fuming” over what he views as complacency among staffers, according to B&C.

He feels production values are slipping and bookers aren’t aggressive enough, relying too heavily on the same faces.

A full-page "Now Hiring” ad that ran recently in a trade magazine asked, "Can you make the cut?”

Broadcasting & Cable reports that a Fox staffer said the question was not addressed to outside applicants. "That was aimed inside.”

An Ailes spokesman declared: "Anyone who displays launch-type intensity will continue to have a job at Fox News. Those who don’t will not. And that includes talent.”


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ailes; fox; foxnews; hemmerthelamer
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

FNS Primetime has become tabloid TV and not worth watching. Get rid of the Natalee Holloway...Scott Peterson type obsessive coverage and cover real news. Fire Greta, reform Hannity and Colmes and find someone who's half as intelligent and informed as Bill O'Reilly thinks he is and put him in O'Reilly's timeslot. That would be a good start.


81 posted on 06/27/2006 9:43:45 AM PDT by pgkdan
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To: jazusamo
Neal Gabler has turned what was once a decent show into a rush for the remote.

I totally agree. I used to watch Fox News Watch religiously and have not seen it in months because of him.

He once had some good insight, but he just hates Bush now.

82 posted on 06/27/2006 9:44:00 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: balk
How about less courtroom/murder drama (duke/domestics) during prime time and more hard news...

Exactly fox is turning more into a soap opera rather than NEWS, I watch for news and would like to here more about news not everyone is talking about. There's got to be more news out there that they don't cover. Get it fox we want NEWS........... and good debates that last more than 30 seconds....Quit with the sound bits if you're going to interview someone give them a chance to get their point across instead of saying 5 seconds Bob.... argggg

83 posted on 06/27/2006 9:44:22 AM PDT by Coffee_drinker (The best defense is a strong preemptive strike..)
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To: All

It seems the past year Fox has been picking up middle of the road cast offs from other networks.

Even the other nite I tuned into Olberman who had that crazy AOL customer trying to cancel his service - it was a great bit....and Fox didn't pick it up til the next morning - at least they had the guy on - Olberman interviewed via phone and the written transcript. I think he was up against O'Reilly - but he tries for different stuff and this one was serendipity for a laugh.

Julian Phillips of Early Weekend "Infamy" would be my first choice to go however - he drags the possibility of any success on the early weekends down into the dumps with his personal vignettes - don't hire narcissists!!!

Smith and Geraldo are a waste of air time. I'd like to see the Judge (who is usually a "guest commentator") have his own show.... he's congenial and a very bright guy.


84 posted on 06/27/2006 9:44:33 AM PDT by imintrouble
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To: xsmommy
get rid of GUILFOYLE for starters!

YES! That voice of hers causes my glassware to dance on the shelves.

85 posted on 06/27/2006 9:44:39 AM PDT by SMM48
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To: Borges
And going back to real news broadcasting instead of tabloid trash like Greta Van Susteren's show would be a good start.

That's why I don't watch Fox nearly as much as I used to...combined with Fox News Alerts that aren't of any national significance. What do I care about a car chase or a store on fire on the other side of the continent?

86 posted on 06/27/2006 9:44:40 AM PDT by Amelia (If we hire them, they will come.)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

I didn't leave Fox. They left me.


87 posted on 06/27/2006 9:44:58 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

All news channels ratings eventually fall...you can only talk about the same thing so many times, before someone will change the channel.


88 posted on 06/27/2006 9:45:15 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: sarasota

Yes he is, but he's a strong conservative and has a great sense of humor and sense of irony. I can't imagine Headline News has the money to be paying him much. Fire Greta and roll what I'm certain must be her overly-inflated salary over to Glen. Everyone I know who's seen him really enjoys him.


89 posted on 06/27/2006 9:45:33 AM PDT by MikeA (Not voting in November because you're pouting is a vote for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House)
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To: bert

More Julie Banderas and less Kimberly Guilfoyle is a good thing. Cheez, I thought they were heading in the right direction when they got rid of that fat bubbleheaded bleached blonde and then they went and hired a man in drag.


90 posted on 06/27/2006 9:45:38 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Let us not flinch from identifying liberalism as the opposition party to God.)
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To: elc

They do seem to have the same guests over and over and over again. You already know what they are going to say before they say it. Also they seem to hype a number of stories. A shake up would be good.


91 posted on 06/27/2006 9:45:51 AM PDT by maxter (Swiftboating = exposing frauds. Let the swiftboating begin.)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

I see a remarkable similarity between FNC and the Rupublicans in D.C.

The Republican come into power acting as conservatives. With overwhelming numbers in both the House and Senate (and the POTUS as well), the Repblicans want to 'broaden' their support by moving towards the center and left. They never, ever seem to realize that by moving away from the right, you numbers will go down as those on the left will never support and those you are leaving feel deserted.

A very good mirror between the two if I may say so.


92 posted on 06/27/2006 9:46:15 AM PDT by samson1097
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To: SMM48; CheneyChick

i could also do without jamie colby and to a lesser extent julie banderas. i like megyn kendall and she should get MORE airtime and should have a primetime evening legal show of her own, more so than the oh so UNPROFESSIONAL fishmouthed guilfoyle!


93 posted on 06/27/2006 9:46:46 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

Physician heal thyself.


94 posted on 06/27/2006 9:46:56 AM PDT by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

Allowing Billy Kristol and Freddie Beetle Barnes to occupy conservative allocated space is some kind of sham.

If Lou Dobbs were not opposite Brit Hume which is FNC's steadiest program, his sliding ratings would be even greater.


95 posted on 06/27/2006 9:47:29 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly
Dear Roger,

Please re-read my email I sent you regarding your hiring of Geraldo Rivera, a.k.a. Jerry Rivers.

Signed,
A former viewer who kept his promise

96 posted on 06/27/2006 9:47:29 AM PDT by N. Theknow ((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

Needs more cowbell.


97 posted on 06/27/2006 9:47:48 AM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

How about Murdock in bed with Hitlary.


98 posted on 06/27/2006 9:47:56 AM PDT by boomop1 (there you go again)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly
Anyone mind sending a link to this thread to Mr. Ailes?

No more car chases...

No more missing blonde coeds...

No more celebrity gossip...

No more Geraldo...

Calm down with the "Fox News Alerts"...

Get a rein on O'Reilly's ego...

Stop cutting away from Presidential press conferences to cover the duke case...

Cut the mic on Hannity and Colmes when they and their guests start trying to scream over one another...

More Brit...

99 posted on 06/27/2006 9:48:02 AM PDT by AngryJawa ({NRA}{IDPA})
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To: em2vn
Fox has far too many pretty faces and not enough serious reporters covering hard news.

This is a good point, Fox probably thinks that's why the ratings were so high. Also, I noticed our local nattering newshounds getting rid of their solid reporters and anchors that don't look like models. They, too, think it's the reporter's looks on Fox that is getting them the good numbers.

None of them seem to realize that the ratings increase with factual news coverage and decrease with liberal lies and political correctness...no matter who is reading the teleprompter.
100 posted on 06/27/2006 9:48:33 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (Give me Liberty or give me the ACLU)
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