[IMissPresidentReagan]

Yet another reason why I don’t watch Foxnews.

[devane617]

Sean, Sean, Sean....

[Tennessee Nana]

Angry over what ???

Hannity’s shows from these events are always great...

his radio shows go of very well...

[misterrob]

Hanity is not a reporter but a news commentator and opinion guy. That said he is using his employer to promote a political cause on their dime. And, Murdoch is right to say that a news org. should not be supporting any party.

Can’t whine when MSNBC does stuff like this and then justify it when Fox people do it.

[Ballygrl]

Did Rupert Murdoch’s liberal/moderate son who seems to be trying to make Fox News more liberal, make this decision?

[Will88]

"Fox News never agreed to allow the Cincinnati Tea Party organizers to use Sean Hannity's television program to profit from broadcasting his show from the event," said Bill Shine, the network's executive vice president of programming. "When senior executives in New York were made aware of this, we changed our plans for tonight's show."

They were charging an immense $5.00 - $20.00 for admission to the audience for Hannity's show. And, Hannity was using the Tea Party organization to boost his show, just as the TP wanted to make a small profit.

Fox has really become worried someone else might make a dollar. Did it occur to them that Hannity's broadcasting from these Tea Party events might increase rating over a regular show? I bet it does. I watched most of the one from Atlanta and I rarely watch Hannity's show, though I do listen to his radio show fairly often.

And Fox has been dogged in trying to shut down all the internet rebroadcasts of Fox News, and their charging for the WSJ online again. They're going for every nickel, but whether their strategy will achieve the result they want is doubtful.

[SoldierDad]

Hannity doesn’t need Fox News any longer. He has other options.

[Deagle]

Don’t think this actually happened. He did seem to be broadcasting live from the event. Seems that many here are jumping to conclusions. Would be happy to be proven otherwise.

[9YearLurker]

Sounds to me like the sort of thing Fox wouldn’t do unless they thought it would give an opening for the current administration to treat them differently—either not as a news organization or in challenge to their license.

[BP2]

From deeper in the story:

Last week, News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch said before a Washington, D.C. crowd that Fox News should not be supporting the movement.

Obviously the disconnect is with Rupert Murdoch, not Sean Hannity.

Rupert obviously fears the Fairness Doctrine more than low ratings, like CNN's and MSNBC's.

Rupert ... in business as you should well know, it’s important to be able to correctly distinguish between your friends, your enemies ... and your AUDIENCE.

Congratulations on alienating the mainstream
who make up the majority of your viewing audience.

[Will88]

This entire episode comes off as knee-jerk and an overreaction. Hannity has been talking about this for several days or weeks, up until this afternoon as the article says. If this is a new policy, they could have let this one go ahead, then instituted their new policy for the future.

Fox has acted peculiar and out-of-character often in recent months. Their increased ratings might not be because they are so great, but because their competition has been so shamelessly in-the-tank for Obama for three or more years. Things could shift in other directions in the future.

[caper gal 1]

Fox News made the absolute correct decision here if a political movement of ANY flavor was charging to profit from a broadcast of their programming, not as an advertiser, they absolutely had to put a halt to it.

[The Cajun]

I'll wait to hear what Sean has to say on radio tomorrow, but I have a great urge to become a former Fox viewer right now.
If they want to become regular MSM, I have no use for them anymore and I don't think I'll be the only one.

[Will88]

Hannity was scheduled to be the featured speaker at a four-hour rally at the University of Cincinnati – with as many as 13,000 in attendance. Proceeds from the event were to benefit a local tea-party organization.

Several interesting questions there. I doubt the U of C was allowing use of their facility for free, some place that would hold 13,000. Who was to pay for the expenses of the event? Wonder if anyone will lose financially as a result of the last minute change, which was not the fault of the organizers of the event.

And, a four hour event, not just the Hannity show broadcast. And I bet Willie Cunningham was there.

[eeevil conservative]

From Atlanta...

Glad to have Cavuto today!

Thankful Hannity was NOT here, and I would never allow him to attend any Tea Party I ever organized..EVER...

ya’ll just have no idea what Sean is really like......I have more respect for Juan Williams than Hannity...

[NeoCaveman]

Glad I didn’t drive downstate to see it.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Fox definitely going left....

Their parent company just purchased this website

www.realitysandwich.com

They mention Rupert Murdoch’s purchase of their site, scroll down below

Fox had no real reason to stop Hannity. Lame excuse.

[blondee123]

I don’t watch any news on TV, I get my news online, like HERE and Drudge!

[nutmeg]

Wow... here’s the answer to the mystery why Hannity didn’t appear at the Cincinnati Tea Party today.

[nutmeg]

We tuned into Sean's show tonight expecting to see him live at the Cincinnati Tea Party with Bill Cunningham, Joe the Plumber and a huge crowd of Ohio Tea Partiers, as he had advertised at the end of his radio show today. Instead Sean was live in his NYC studio, not talking much about the Tea Party, and the show seemed hastily put together. We figured something had gone wrong. Wow, now we know what happened.

That's really a shame for Cincinnati Tea Partiers who were expecting to see him.

Fortunately, C-SPAN2 was running video of today's Tea Party Express III rally in Washington DC at the same time (9pm EDT)... :o)

Thank you, Man50D, for the heads up on this story.