Does this guy really add that much to FNC? I mean, really?
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.”
Neal Gabler has turned what was once a decent show into a rush for the remote.
Although she makes such asses of them it's fun to watch, esp. when she was on H&C with that Jersey state legislature Nazi. She made a complete blithering idiot of that dope, or more so than he already is.
They need to find some more dogs trapped on ice.
Why do Shepard Smith and Bill-O (not to mention Gretter) come to my mind?
Stop trying to out CNN CNN, dammit.
Fox is still better than the other two news channels but.....ugh lately they suck too! I can barely stand to watch them anymore. All the talking heads make me ill and their guests almost all suck.
Besides that, it is the same drivel over and over and over....all day, every day.
They definitely need to get rid of a few people and "freshen up".
The list of annoying Fox personalities is quite long. If they're all sacked, will there be anyone left to read the news?
FNC HAS moved too far left. Look, you guys, you are never gonna get the approval of the liberals and MSM, so don't try. Go back to what you were doing.
Mr. Ailes:
Less tabolid, more IN DEPTH news..
Julian on F & F weekends...show him the door.
As with most media in NY, the temptation to impress each other, instead of serving middle America, becomes paramount.
Uh....Roger Ailes should read Free Republic. Is Greta at Patsy Ramsey's funeral this week?
Brit Hume and Brian Wilson. They can do it in 12-hour shifts.
Orreilly is their biggest ratings draw.
As with most media in NY, the temptation to impress each other, instead of serving middle America, becomes paramount.
Fox thinks he's their answer to Anderson Cooper, as if that empty suit requires a counter-punch from Fox.
Yes, Roger dump the tabloid trash and keep hitting the issues that make sense. Illegal immigrant invaders stories and how it is destroying this country.
Shep brings in the gay demographic.
That is all.............
Clift, Clark, Novak, Mudd to name a few should be omitted.
More Molly...... More Molly.... More molly, that's the ticket
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