Sources: Fox News Has Decided Bill OReilly Has to Go

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/sources-fox-news-has-decided-bill-oreilly-has-to-go.html

The Murdochs have decided Bill O’Reilly’s 21-year run at Fox News will come to an end. According to sources briefed on the discussions, network executives are preparing to announce O’Reilly’s departure before he returns from an Italian vacation on April 24. Now the big questions are how the exit will look and who will replace him.

Wednesday morning, according to sources, executives are holding emergency meetings to discuss how they can sever the relationship with the country’s highest-rated cable-news host without causing collateral damage to the network. The board of Fox News’ parent company, 21st Century Fox, is scheduled to meet on Thursday to discuss the matter.

Sources briefed on the discussions say O’Reilly’s exit negotiations are moving quickly. Right now, a key issue on the table is whether he would be allowed to say good-bye to his audience, perhaps the most loyal in all of cable (O’Reilly’s ratings have ticked up during the sexual-harassment allegations). Fox executives are leaning against allowing him to have a sign-off, sources say. The other main issue on the table is money. O’Reilly recently signed a new multiyear contract worth more than $20 million per year. When Roger Ailes left Fox News last summer, the Murdochs paid out $40 million, the remainder of his contract.

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"Talking Points" must have a huge sad right now.

[FakeNoose]

1. This guy made $20 million last year -

... Do you think he'll give any of it back to the advertisers?
(or viewers?)

[Orrex]

3. Or his victims?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. ... or Dr. Tiller's family? nt

[stonecutter357]

2. K&R!

[KittyWampus]

12. I was conflicted... tiny violin or brass band. I think you nailed it.

[Renew Deal]

5. How long before he lands at MSNBC?

[vlyons]

6. Good riddance to bad rubbish

[Jarqui]

7. "Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool." Bill O

Wonder if Bill will call this as FOX being "fair and balanced" ...

They've lanced a big puss-laden surface scab but the underlying infection at FOX remains rampant and out of control.

[SFnomad]

8. Bill will have more time to polish his Peabody n/t

[Bengus81]

9. Aw shucks,Trump said he was a good guy!! n/t

[Xolodno]

10. It's amazing.

Repubs did everything they could to regain the House and Senate, then the Oval Office. This should be their honeymoon, they got what they wanted. Instead, they are fighting amongst themselves and can barely get any bills passed through, media darlings dropping like flies, some GOP quietly leaving by the back door, etc.

They obviously had no plan on what they were going to do once they regained control.

[KittyWampus]

11. He's just the tip of the misogynist, traitorous iceberg. Advertisers should abandon FOX entirely.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. $20 Million Per Year

For cable news? I know their ratings are high as cable news goes, but really how many people is that and how much money in ad revenue does that really bring in?

It's hard to believe that that guy is getting paid more than some major TV personalities that don't do talking head crap, and probably get higher ratings than anything Billo dreams about. (I'm thinking about, for instance, the guy that hosts The Voice, or the guy from Dancing with the Stars)

That just seems economically unjustified