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Sean Hannity Eyes Fox News Exit, Insiders Say
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What sponsors are going put ads on a further-right news network helmed by a bunch of guys they pulled their ads over in the first place?
Yoda
Member
It's a gamble. If they loose all the quacks, the audiences may go with them. Granted I'm not sure if high numbers alone is actual congruent with the economics of cable television, mainly due to the fact is the majority of those numbers are senior citizens, and advertisers aren't very fond of that demographic.
polyh3dron
Banned
He dropped the bow tie to fool us into thinking he finally hit puberty.How we ever gonna know if Tucker caught on that everyone is gone when his face is perpetually...
We see you, Tucker.
Time will tell.
Seems to be mostly be damage control for now. Gotta have a massive influx or ad money if they want to keep the studio lights on...the brainwashed masses aren't paying those bills, as large as they are.
Hoping for yet another cameo/takeover on Colbert.
ForsakenLotus
Member
Good riddance. I don't know much about the Murdoch sons or what their vision of a conservative leaning news channel is, but it has to be a significant improvement over what we've seen.
If it weren't for people like O'Reily and Hannity (and the channel that supported them), I honestly don't think Trump could have had a shot at winning.
If it weren't for people like O'Reily and Hannity (and the channel that supported them), I honestly don't think Trump could have had a shot at winning.
mightynine
Member
The ads were only pulled from O'Reilly show. They were moved to other shows/dayparts on Fox.
The fear for Fox now is that the replacement shows get lower ratings and then they can't charge as much for spots (or fees to cable companies) or those companies will take those ad dollars somewhere else.
Wonderful news. Now just dump Tucker Carlson. I worry about whatever the next incarnation of these crazies is, but if it's not on TV I feel the country has been done a massive service by simply stopping the outlet of propaganda that a large portion of our dumbest people consume. The people still watching Fox News are the people too dumb to think critically or fact check or use the internet to verify whether what they are being fed is true or not. Better it just be gone now, hopefully nothing worse replaces it and these people are forced to at least look at other MSM, even if they're not amazing either.
BigJonsson
Member
Bye Felicia
Also, if the toxic culture is truly systemic and not just isolated to O'Reilly. These companies are certainly weighing VERY heavily the RoI on their ad spend over there...
I overheard at a BBQ on the weekend about how "His Sons' wives are a bunch of Leftists and that's why O'Reilly is gone" etc etc.
And do the Murdochs actually think that they're going to pivot towards the center at this stage in the game and be taken seriously? Fox News needs to just die. Good riddance.
And do the Murdochs actually think that they're going to pivot towards the center at this stage in the game and be taken seriously? Fox News needs to just die. Good riddance.
Reverend Funk
Comfy Penetration
If they need someone to fill the time slot I hear Jon Stewart has some free time.
I know these guys are fossils and likely inept when it comes to anything new, but is anyone surprised some of these people (Tomi Lahren, O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, etc) haven't discovered Patreon and made a run there?
I mean you have people like Drew Scanlon and Danny O'Dwyer pulling in 20k per month, and Colin Moriarty is at 35k. Not to dismiss any of them, but their influence is almost non-existent compared to the heavy hitters. I'm really wondering how much Hannity could pull in if they headed a campaign to say "I'm leaving the MSM, get all my unfiltered views at this other place, where we don't kneel to any advertiser!" It's hard to see them not having money thrown at them.
I'm sure they make plenty on book deals and radio shows or whatever it is they end up doing, but it still surprises me nobody has tested the waters there yet (or have they and I'm just uninformed?)
I mean you have people like Drew Scanlon and Danny O'Dwyer pulling in 20k per month, and Colin Moriarty is at 35k. Not to dismiss any of them, but their influence is almost non-existent compared to the heavy hitters. I'm really wondering how much Hannity could pull in if they headed a campaign to say "I'm leaving the MSM, get all my unfiltered views at this other place, where we don't kneel to any advertiser!" It's hard to see them not having money thrown at them.
I'm sure they make plenty on book deals and radio shows or whatever it is they end up doing, but it still surprises me nobody has tested the waters there yet (or have they and I'm just uninformed?)
poppedcollar69
Member
Are the Murdoch lads woke?
You'd at least think Tomi would have turned to it. She'd no doubt make a shit ton of money. I don't like her at all, but that's facts.
I hear they are less conservative. But ultimately they serve the almighty dollar.
And with what happened with Ailes and now Bill. They are probably using this chance to clean up a bit.
Ziltoidia 9
Member
Probably just using it as a negotiation tactic for more money.
BlastProcessing
Member
Hannity is making $29 million per year. He's not getting that from Patreon. That's in addition to the book deals and radio money that he is already pulling in.
Bruce Springsteen
Member
No matter where he goes he will have a fraction of the audience, and he'd get a lot more money getting fired then quitting
Puck Beaverton
Banned
they're doing this because they love money
Joel Was Right
Member
Maybe the Murdochs will try to clone Aljazeera's format. One can dream.
Fail State
Banned
Same reason their Dad started a conservative news network. He understood there was more money in peddling hate to right wing nut jobs than there was pandering to left wing nut jobs.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Welp. Breitbart News is gonna pick these guys up.
Yes. Guys.
Yes. Guys.
It's scary to think what kind of ads would even run on such a network. Would probably be a non-stop cycle of invest in gold, Trump campaign 2020 propaganda, and pickup truck commercials.
Tranqueris
Banned
Eh, Breitbart is basically funded by conservative millionaires at this point since all the advertisers fled their site. I could see them trying some type of desperate "get Hannity and the viewership will cause advertisers to come back somehow" move.
Man, if that were the case they'd be treading carefully now... To lose their biggest draws in a few weeks span isn't going to do wonders for their ratings, I would imagine.
RPGCrazied
Member
O'Reily is already gone.
Wasn't Bill O'Reilly's even older? That aside, not the type to follow you to YouTube or to a podcast
It really is. And people like Carlson, as insufferable as his, aren't as vile as Hannity/O'Reilly.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
This. As nice as it is to see this shithole collapse, I worry this may just lead to Breitbart and InfoWars growing to take its place. If those become the de facto GOP news source and media standards bearers, that's a hundred times worse. And it potentially creates an opening for even further right sources to grow.
legacyzero
Banned
Keep em tippin
AstroNut325
Member
What if...
Trump's entire goal was to bring down the scummiest Fox personalities/managers/partners with his presidency so the nation would be better off in the long run.
8th dimensional chess!
Trump's entire goal was to bring down the scummiest Fox personalities/managers/partners with his presidency so the nation would be better off in the long run.
8th dimensional chess!
Ailes specifically is looking to make a new network, but it'll be hard work in a fractured landscape. I don't doubt he knows more about making a successful network than Palin or Glenn Beck, but both of them were household names for conservatives who failed to really build successful media networks on top of that. Cable is shrinking and the internet space is dominated by leaner, meaner outfits like Breitbart, Daily Caller, Drudge, etc.
From a few years ago, but O'Reilly's was clocked at a median of 72.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/05/most-people-who-watch-bill-oreilly-are-over-70.html