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Murdochs push for Ailes to leave Fox News
The Financial Times ^ | July 19, 2016 | Matthew Garrahan and Anna Nicolaou

Posted on 07/19/2016 2:47:18 PM PDT by monkapotamus

The likely departure of the former aide to Richard Nixon who defied the odds when he launched Fox News 20 years ago could present a big problem for the Murdochs. Three of Fox News’ biggest stars — Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren — have clauses in their contracts that would allow them to depart if Mr Ailes were to leave the network, the two people briefed on the dispute said.

This means a core team of on-air talent could follow Mr Ailes out of the door.

Mr O’Reilly said in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter last year that he had “no idea how the network would shake out if he [Roger Ailes] wasn’t here...”

(Excerpt) Read more at ft.com ...


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KEYWORDS: ailes; fox; murdoch
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1 posted on 07/19/2016 2:47:18 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: monkapotamus

Not to be blasphemous, but some would liken asking Ailes to leave Fox is like asking the Pope to leave the Vatican. You almost can’t have one without the other. If Ailes leaves, it will run somewhat normally for a few months, then, after the election, when we have all settled down ,the new Fox will become more obvious.

I’m seeing notes on Drudge that if Ailes goes, three big Fox stars may also leave the network; O’Reilly, Sustern and Hannity. I thought all three of these people were brushing up close to retirement anyway, as likable as they may be.
Where would they go? unless they know what Roger has planned.


2 posted on 07/19/2016 2:55:26 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: monkapotamus

When people who report the news BECOME the news.....


3 posted on 07/19/2016 3:02:25 PM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: lee martell

With the new distribution options available, a new conservative news network could be formed relatively quickly, especially if fronted by the prime Fox News stars.


4 posted on 07/19/2016 3:06:59 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: lee martell
If they all go, I will not be watching hardly anything on FNC. It is a shame. To be honest I am watching FBN more than FNC. MK is a real witch. Claiming sexual harassment after 10 years making her 35 years old at the time? MK was a damned prosecutor! I had no problem handling sexual harassment at the age of 25 without ruining careers. Sheesh, what a pathetic weasel she is.
5 posted on 07/19/2016 3:07:22 PM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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Macy’s took on Trump. Then tanked.

Fox took on Trump. Tanking.

Don’t mess with the Don!


6 posted on 07/19/2016 3:12:32 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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Thanks. MK is a real witch. Claiming sexual harassment after 10 years making her 35 years old at the time? MK was a damned prosecutor! I had no problem handling sexual harassment at the age of 25 without ruining careers. Sheesh, what a pathetic weasel she is.
7 posted on 07/19/2016 3:12:56 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Nothing special re words "radical Islam"!, Nation of IsIam is just "Islam." NOI/ISIS equals murder!)
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To: Chgogal

If you hire Leftists so you can be “fair and balanced” don’t be surprised if one of them turns and bites you. Ailes, you should have known better.


8 posted on 07/19/2016 3:15:19 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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Drudge just posted “EXCLUSIVE: HER SEX COMPLAINT? IN 2006, SHE DID NOT LIKE THE WAY HE HUGGED HER, SOURCE CLAIMS... “

If this is the substance to MeAgain’s complaint, the media world’s in a lotta trouble. The Murdoch boys have been itching to rid themselves of Ailes ever since dad gave them their new jobs. Rush nailed it last week: Fox News is just plain embarrassing to these dumbasses at Manhattan cocktail parties. Never mind the record audiences night after night. Never mind that FNC contributes 20% to 21st Century Fox’s profits. Never mind the shareholders. It’s those parties that matter to them.

Ailes is 76 now, but he’s just contrarian enough to take his stars somewhere else that appreciates his successes and star over again, if only to stick it up the asses of the Murdoch boys. I hope he does it.


9 posted on 07/19/2016 3:16:04 PM PDT by Hodapp ("O Judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason.")
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To: TTFlyer

I liked Fox better when their motto was “We Report. You Decide.”


10 posted on 07/19/2016 3:16:37 PM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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To: TigerClaws

Macy’s took on Trump. Then tanked.

Fox took on Trump. Tanking.

The GOPe losers posing as Republican presidential candidates tanked and are merely bad memories if at all.

Clintoon will tank and be another bad memory!


11 posted on 07/19/2016 3:24:21 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Nothing special re words "radical Islam"!, Nation of IsIam is just "Islam." NOI/ISIS equals murder!)
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To: Chgogal
MK is a real witch.

Bump!

12 posted on 07/19/2016 3:27:19 PM PDT by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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Heh. Now this just appeared: “EXCLUSIVE: ‘FOX & FRIENDS’ AND ‘THE FIVE’ ANCHORS, GRETA, O’REILLY, HANNITY SET TALENT MEETING TO DISCUSS WALKING OUT ON NEWS NETWORK... DEVELOPING... “

These Murdoch boys may have just shot their own peckers off. And don’t discount a stockholder revolt by tomorrow.


13 posted on 07/19/2016 3:27:21 PM PDT by Hodapp ("O Judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason.")
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To: Grampa Dave

Yep.

This all helps Trump. People were sick of the Bush family and the ruling elites. They’ve helped Trump continue to be the outsider and smasher of the Uniparty. All playing into his hands.

Even the chaos outside helps him. Shows we need a law and order candidate.

The donor class is the problem. They want cheap labor and open borders. They care about their stock portfolio more than America.

But Trump doesn’t need them to win.


14 posted on 07/19/2016 3:27:53 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: lee martell

Trump TV???


15 posted on 07/19/2016 3:30:36 PM PDT by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: Hodapp

It’s a strange thing. A lot of very successful business of today will reach a point where the Board of Directors are no longer all that interested in making a profit. Examples include Target Stores; Who have angered thousands of customers with their Genderfree Bathroom rules. Another example includes local colleges and universities who allow BLM to take over and scream racist threats at white students.
Why do they allow this, knowing less people will want to stay and pay for that school. That brings us to FoxNews. It would not be surprising for James Murdoch to take over at Fox, watch the ratings plummet,cause his elderly dad to have a stroke, but still not be fired for mismanagement.

The shareholders would have to do that indirectly. James Murdoch would continue to feel in the right, (ironically) because he never believed in the old was Fox was run or the things it stood for. In short, James wants to deflate the American’s favorite channel, because he thinks it’s unfair to the left, or some such nonsense.


16 posted on 07/19/2016 3:32:51 PM PDT by lee martell
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The liberal board of directors are on each other’s boards. Echo Chambers.


17 posted on 07/19/2016 3:36:40 PM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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To: personalaccts

Donald has spoken of it, but this would only happen any time soon, if he lost the election. Still, one would think Ailes himself would have enough to get it going. This scandal may be a punch in the stomach that he wasn’t expecting. He may have had enough.

This should be a WARNING to Megyn’s husband. See how easy it is for her to turn on you, even after you spend years helping her out at your own expense? When it was to her advantage, she was unbothered by a ‘questionable hug’ from her boss. Now suddenly she’s all kinds of disturbed about something that occurred 10 years ago. I’ll bet she never even told him ‘the hug’ disturbed her. She should have so they could put it behind them. No. She saved the rage up for later, after the rage had yielded enough interest.


18 posted on 07/19/2016 3:43:49 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

Good insight.


19 posted on 07/19/2016 3:54:56 PM PDT by jeannineinsd (`)
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To: Hodapp

Heh. Now this just appeared: “EXCLUSIVE: ‘FOX & FRIENDS’ AND ‘THE FIVE’ ANCHORS, GRETA, O’REILLY, HANNITY SET TALENT MEETING TO DISCUSS WALKING OUT ON NEWS NETWORK... DEVELOPING... “

These Murdoch boys, the old senile one and his sons Heckle and Jeckle just shot their own feet and ????? off. And don’t discount a stockholder revolt by tomorrow.


20 posted on 07/19/2016 4:04:29 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Nothing special re words "radical Islam"!, Nation of IsIam is just "Islam." NOI/ISIS equals murder!)
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