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.
Bob Beckel will put up more of a fight than Colmes, though. You have to admit.
BRING IN KIRSTEN POWERS!! MUCH EASIER ON THE EYES!
and stomach.
HE HAS
must have missed it over the years
he is a complete loon who tries to defend the indefensible and makes himself look like an arse while doing it.
Even my wife sat down for a show once and said surely he can’t believe that on what he just said.
she still is convinced that he tries to play devils advocate but does admit he needs to stop trying so hard
Bingo!
Okay, if you want an actual news program Coulter would be the way to go. But I’d rather see a younger, better looking conservative babe beside hannity. Just personal preference.
GMTA
She seems to have more intelligence in her pretty little pinkie than Colmes has in his empty ugly head.
He’s the Adrew Ridgely to the George Michael of “Wham!”
He will probably have a segment hosting the Strategy Room.
Although they have many liberal guests all of the HOSTS are either FNC or FBN news people and none are leftists, so if he hosts a segment he will be a first for that online streaming talk show.
its only kool-aide :)
More like Ringo.
good riddance after he attacked Palin’s ability as a mother.
sort of the same here.
I stopped watching the show for a few weeks now because of Colmes
Now I will start again if they get Powers to take the loons place.
at least she admits when something are wrong and she lets her guests answer without the sneering snotty nosed look.
good riddance to bad rubbish I say
OMG!!! THE CORPSE IS LEAVING????
So many graveyards,so little time....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hksil-KkebQ
Who would have ever guessed that such a macho guy like George Michael would turn out to be gay!?!?
Just look at the testosterone oozing from him while he dances about the sun shining brighter than Doris Day.
ABOUT FLIPPING TIME!!!!!!!! THIS FLIGGING PIECE OF GARBAGE HAS ANNOYED AND FRUSTRATED MANY VIEWERS, INCLUDING MYSELF. I’M HAPPY TO SEE HIM LEAVE.
From what I hear, that’s not the safest stuff to be drinkin’ these days. :-)
I would like to see Rush do TV, but I don’t think he’s much for it.
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