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.
FINALLY! Now I can tune in to the show and not PUKE!
OMG! Don’t let my baby girl here you say that Ringo is her favorite.
true though
but I get your point.
I would like to see more talk about the homo agenda, show videos of these homo parades and parties and let the public know what they are really like.
More discussion on the effects of illegal immigration as well.
though Hannity has covered the border I think he could have done more talk on it but you never hear him or even most of talk radio go on about the homo agenda
I have not watched for a few eeks but have they covered the churches being attacked and the intimidation which is happening
I remember his TV show...at 3 AM
That's all it has ever been anyway.
what about the hannity and Susan Estrich show (see above)?
12 years? I hadn’t realized it had been that long. Twelve years is a long time to do anything; in the newsotainment industry its a lifetime.
I have to say I won’t miss him. He has had the unenviable task of defending the indefensible, as someone else put it, and from my perspective its been unwatchable. The format itself has been unwatchable, I can’t bear to listen to him. So I tuned them both out years ago.
Still, he’s had a good run. Hope he saved his money.
LOL! I used to love that song. This is how innocent in naive I was in my teenage years, I didn’t know what gay was and it certainly didn’t cross my mind that George Michaels was gay. Hindsight is 20/20, I suppose.
Rush would bring millions of viewers in plus he would rip any liberal out there.
love to see him get a show on FOX
He would make a good candidate for a corpse in any funeral home.
What a phony. I stopped watching Hannity and Colmes long ago, because I could not stand Colmes.
Again, GOOD RIDDANCE!
I think “debate” was just a cover for H&C because it’s been apparent there’s no real debate ever going on, especially from Colmes. You could put a monkey in there that just flings poo at the guests and it would be more effective.
Personally, Sean can handle the show by himself, but I think putting in another uber-conservative like Ann will be too much of a good thing. They will never get a lib to come on the show because they know he/she will be torn to shreds. Good for us, bad for the network.
Fox takes the fair and balanced thing too seriously for their own good, so I doubt that would happen.
Repeatedly, redundant,over and over !...LOL !
I don’t know where he got his material but he’s been defending the indefensible for a long time. He can come up with some pretty obscure ways of looking at a situation. It has to be a pretty thankless job. Mostly he just tees the ball up for Sean or the guest to whack out of the park. He must have been pretty heavily medicated all this time to endure 12 years of getting pounded. I’ve never thought he was a very good spokesperson for liberal positions but we didn’t really need one anyway.
byebye @$$hole
That’s one Prayer that has been answered for sure!
I vote for Zell Miller as his Dem replacement.
Great, as if weekend viewing isn't already bad.
They finally going to bury the corpse?
The mothership is calling him back to planet Farquaht.
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