Posted on 10/28/2008 10:13:46 AM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Glenn Beck has signed a multi-year agreement to join FOX News, announced Roger Ailes, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FOX News. Beginning next spring, Beck will host FOX News Channel Currently, Beck serves as the host of Glenn Beck, a talk show on CNN’s Headline News which has grown more than 200% in viewership in both the 7pm and 9pm timeslots since its 2006 debut. He also hosts a daily radio show The Glenn Beck Program which is syndicated via Premiere Radio Networks to more than 300 stations nationwide as well as XM Satellite Radio, and ranks as the third most listened to radio talk show in America among adults 25-54.
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Yeah! I’m very much looking forward to Glenn’s show on Fox.
Not bad for a former drug addict who turned his life around.
Wow another pseudo conservative talking head joins fox...great...oh, sorry, I forgot he is a libertarian
Mixed feelings. I really got a kick out of the ire that I know his show must have created inside of CNN.
Perhaps he will now displace Bill O. Glenn Beck is has the best show on TV.
Beck will also do a weekend show. His daily radio show is heard by nearly 7 million people, ranking him fifth in popularity behind Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage and Laura Schlessinger, according to Talkers magazine.
He sensed growth opportunities at Fox, which appeals to a more conservative audience and has many more viewers than CNN Headline News. Although he won't be in prime time, he gives Fox some bench strength in case there are any changes to its strong prime-time lineup.
Beck said he was trying to improve as a TV host and that he appreciated the chance to have Fox News chief Roger Ailes as a mentor.
"Roger felt that I had a real good sense and gut for what the average person in America is feeling and I think that needs to be reflected on television," Beck said.
He said he wasn't sure how his talk show would be different on Fox. He's also unclear how long he will remain on CNN Headline News' schedule now that he's a lame duck.
Fox currently has a political show with rotating hosts at 5 p.m. The network is also due to lose the host for its 6 p.m. newscast, Brit Hume, who is taking on a part-time role after the election. Fox hasn't said who will fill Hume's time slot.
Beck's departure is a blow for CNN Headline News, which first broke its continuous, half-hour newscast format in 2006 by starting Beck's show. It was an instant sensation, and led the network to launch another talk show with Nancy Grace, which now outrates Beck.
"I was such an island over at Headline News," Beck said. "I had to bring my own audience, where I think there are a lot of people tuning in for comment on the day over at Fox."
Beck's CNN Headline News show airs at 7 p.m. EDT and is repeated at 9 p.m. The network is about to replace the 9 p.m. rerun with a rerun of Lou Dobbs' CNN show, but Beck said that had nothing to do with his decision to leave.
"Glenn has been a terrific employee and colleague to many of us at CNN," said spokeswoman Janine Iamunno. "We wish him well."Beck leaving CNN Headline News for Fox News
Well he’s endorsing Sarah Palin...not McCain, not Obama (of course he’s voting for McCain because of Palin.) I like that, and think that puts him in the conservative column.
He is far better than Shep Smith. I have no idea how that guy even got within 15 miles of a national hosting gig. He should be hosting a local access cable show in Hattiesburg Mississippi on Highway 49 right next to a Popeye’s Chicken.
I like Beck. Sorry to hear he’s slumming it with Fox.
Glenn Beck is hilarious. I love his sarcasm and when he mocks his wife’s voice.
Apparently his Insider newsletter has almost as many subscribers as the NYTimes...not too shabby and much better reading.
Huh?
good give him a chair on the “All-Stars” and show Kondrecky,Easton or Barnes the door.
Assuming that Fox hasn’t been “Fairness-Doctrined” out of business by then, I hope that Glenn’s slot causes that stupid Red Eye show to be cancelled. I go to History or NG Channel if that’s on, if not then to sleep. It is worthless. Glenn, OTOH, I’d stay up to watch on re-runs (’cuz I’ll never be home in time to watch it live).
Welcome aboard, Glenn!!
agreed the best thing FOX can do is to get rid of shepherd smith and Geraldo
they are two girlie, melodramatic men.
Geraldo actually believes his lies and drama.
Smith tries to play the old southern MS boy but is actually a latte drinking Starbucks melodramatic queen
Well that’a a great idea. At least then you’d get plain speak and not Washington insider mumbo jumbo.
So is he not going to be on tv till Spring? He’s not on at 7 and 9 anymore? Where’d he go? Did he move time slots?
Scared of the fairness doctrine. My wife’s theory is that he doesn’t want to be CNN’s token conservative when it hits.
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