Glenn Beck ending Fox News show later this year
Glenn Beck will "transition off of his daily program" later this year, Beck and Fox News announced on Wednesday. The statement did not specify an end date for the show, but Beck's contract is up in December.
In a joint news release, Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts, Beck's production company, said that they will "work together to develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the Fox News Channel as well as content for other platforms including Fox News' digital properties." The release did not state what those programs will be.
Beck has been thinking about leaving Fox for a while and has considered taking over a cable channel or expanding his subscription video service online.
"Glenn Beck is a powerful communicator, a creative entrepreneur and a true success by anybody's standards," said Roger Ailes, Chairman and chief executive of Fox News, in the statement. "I look forward to continuing to work with him."
"I truly believe that America owes a lot to Roger Ailes and Fox News," said Beck. "I cannot repay Roger for the lessons I've learned and will continue to learn from him and I look forward to starting this new phase of our partnership."
-- Melissa Maerz
Photo: Glenn Beck. Credit: Brian Blanco / Reuters
...good riddance of this buffoon!.....anybody who listened to his ignorance and stupidity only made him a rich man, which shows our intellect of understanding social issues...people who listen to him will only be led to a cliff and into doomsday!!!...and followed by trumps minions!
Posted by: donkeyhote | April 06, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Goodbye and good riddance.
Posted by: Emily | April 06, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Best news I've heard all day!
Posted by: michael | April 06, 2011 at 12:48 PM
Like a stinky cheese goes rotten when exposed to the reality of air and sensibility, the Beckambert just became too foul to be tolerable. The expensive odor will linger on.
Posted by: Shanelle Mitchell | April 06, 2011 at 01:22 PM
I consider myself slightly conservative, but I still find glen ridiculous. Goodbye ._.
Posted by: RN | April 06, 2011 at 01:25 PM
The best thing about his show are the crazy video clips that his staff manages to find. Glenn Beck, himself, has gotten nuttier and nuttier over time. His show jumped the shark a long time ago. Not surprising, though. When you have to talk for so many hours every day, when do you have time to learn anything new?
There have been good moments. After a show dedicated to a long interview with NY Congressman Eric J. "Tickle fight" Massa, he turned to the camera and apologized to viewers for wasting out time. That was pretty funny, I have to say.
Posted by: woof-woof | April 06, 2011 at 01:27 PM
Why do we have to wait? Why can't he just leave now?
Posted by: JohnRJ08 | April 06, 2011 at 01:31 PM
No big loss.
Posted by: vegasgirl | April 06, 2011 at 01:55 PM
The reason beck is going to "transition off of his daily program" is because fox is going to drop his show because it has sunk in the ratings and suffered financially due to an advertiser boycott.
Posted by: Tom Johnston | April 06, 2011 at 02:01 PM
And to Mr. and Mrs. Walker: No offense, really, but maybe you should try reading newspapers or watch The News Hour on PBS, and avoid the usual screaming-mimi windbag (and yes, both sides of the spectrum have such fools) brigades of cable news.
And Fox no more reports "the truth" about this country than any other broadcast outlet.
Posted by: vegasgirl | April 06, 2011 at 02:02 PM
What a horrible fear-monger for those who don't read or pay attention. He is a name-caller and offers no credible news to anyone. I can't wait for him to go away for good. Fox knows a liability when they see/hear one. It is amazing how easily people are swayed into his wild and misguided conspiracy theories.
Posted by: Hot-Rod | April 06, 2011 at 02:04 PM
@ capmotion: I share your view. Well said.
Posted by: Helen | April 06, 2011 at 02:43 PM
I wonder which straw finally broke the Fox-camel's back? Beck's sinking ratings, the advertiser's boycott or Beck's impending mental collapse?
Posted by: Cal Worthington | April 06, 2011 at 03:04 PM
If America gets its economic house in order, few will have been more responsible than Roger Ailes. He is my early nominee for "Man of the [21st] Century!
Posted by: vincent joy | April 06, 2011 at 03:18 PM
Good riddance to rotten rubbish! Now if only we could get rid of Fox Noise as well. The channel is banned in Canada, as unlike in this country, a channel that purports to be a "news" channel has to report the news truthfully and not just make it up as they go along. Rupert Murdoch and his lemmings do a great disservice to the American people by misleading them and spreading hate. It's a real tragedy that we don't have a news channel that's not controlled by corporations and that can report straight news, like the BBC.
Posted by: Marilyn Golding | April 06, 2011 at 03:26 PM
nah nah nah naaah, nah nah nah naaaah, heeeey ey ey, gooood bye!
Posted by: umwut | April 06, 2011 at 03:30 PM
It is an end of his 5 o' clock show, people. Not the end of his influence in the public arena.
Posted by: Lc48b1 | April 06, 2011 at 03:45 PM
We would all be better served if he and all the crazy hate-mongers like him just fell off the edge of the earth, left and right-wing alike.
Posted by: Faith | April 06, 2011 at 03:49 PM
Such a wimpy newscaster is Glenn Beck...cannot even support his facts which are so fuzzy they cannot be true...does his whiteboard whitewash truth, you betcha! His friendship with Palin doomed his credibility, because neither one of them can you believe....good bye and retire with your 33 million/year salary!
Posted by: Reina | April 06, 2011 at 03:55 PM
I can only wish Beck all the best, and hope he will bring back something along the line Walter Cronkite did in the 60's called "You Are There". great history lessons. Thank you for all your work Mr. Beck.
Posted by: R. Gleason | April 06, 2011 at 04:18 PM