Glenn Beck signs $100 million radio contract

[IDemo]

Source: msnbc.com

Glenn Beck will remain a force in radio for at least five more years. The conservative firebrand has inked a new five-year, $100 million deal with Clear Channel's Premiere Networks. The pact, roughly double the size of the previous five-year deal he signed in 2007, is a vote of confidence for the syndicated "Glenn Beck Program," which regularly lures 10 million listeners a week.

The morning show, behind only to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity's radio programs in typical audience size, is carried by more than 400 stations. Since "The Glenn Beck Program's" official launch in early 2002, Beck has used the mutliple-hour format to peddle all part of the Beck brand, from books to Web shows to comedy events.

The news, first reported by The New York Times, comes about a year after Beck signed off on his popular if ever-controversial Fox News show. In the months since, he has continued to grow his subscription-based Internet-only network, GBTV, which a recent Wall Street Journal article estimated would bring in at least $40 million in revenue this year.

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[Dont call me Shirley]

1. Oh, Lordy!

[RKP5637]

2. Hatred sells. These people love hatred and hostilities. Sometimes I wonder if

we have too much freedom of speech.

[KurtNYC]

3. Wait until Hitler finds out....

[iamthebandfanman]

4. who do you think they learned it from? n/t

[BlueJazz]

5. Millions of people working like slaves for peanuts and this piece of human garbage...

...gets 100 times 1000 times 1000 bucks.

[RKP5637]

8. And the people that watch him are too F'en stupid to figure out what's going on. They

think he's just like them.

[chelsea0011]

10. ain't it the truth

[JI7]

13. sad thing is i bet much of his audience is made up of those working like slaves for peanuts

[cstanleytech]

16. Alot of those "slaves" are actually devoted followers of Beck otherwise he

wouldnt be on the air still.

[kenfrequed]

6. Proof again.

Of a continual and disgusting right wing conservative bias in the media.

[The Wielding Truth]

7. The devil pays well to do his work. Lies and subterfuge. Decency and democracy pays the price, too.

[sofa king]

9. I guess that means a sucker is worth two bucks.

I'm guessing that ten million listeners a week is probably the same ten million listeners every week. Maybe the best way to put it is that there are ten million listeners, minimum.

I assume Clear Channel thinks they can sell over $20 million in advertising each year to pay for Beck, which means in turn that advertisers think that they can make over $20 million a year off of the ten million listeners.

Or a minimum of two bucks per listener per year. Call it four cents a week?

I suppose the reverse can work, too. Show me a list of Beck's advertisers and I'll gladly not spend over two bucks on any of them in a year. I'll bet I could divert a shitload more money than that away from those advertisers by identifying which products I use back Beck, and never buying them again.

If I deliberately avoid spending $100 in a year on those advertisers, I've canceled out fifty Beck listeners.

That sounds like something worth doing. Who are his most prominent advertisers?

[barbtries]

11. people actually listen to this?

i don't get it.

[cstanleytech]

17. "I don't get it." I suspect some of it has to do with people wanting someone who will tell

them what to think and why its the fault of (insert political party, race, sex, age, religion) for their own lives sucking or why they cant find a job.
In fact thats how Hitler came to power pre WWII Germany, people liked being told why it was someone elses fault other than their own for the problems in their country.

[barbtries]

18. i guess you're right

and i still don't get it. it's about hate i suppose.

[cstanleytech]

19. Its not so much about hate as its about fear.

Fear is the driving force in the end and it triggers a flight or fight reflex and in the case of those who follow those like Beck it triggers their fight reflex so they lash out blindly without taking the time to consider the consequences of their actions in the long term.

[barbtries]

34. fear engenders hate

either way. i still don't know how anyone can listen to this guy. he's nuts.

[Woody Woodpecker]

12. So they have two idiots that they have to pay $20 million each year to...

Both of them are fireable, and yet they just want to put right-wing fucknuts there.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. I'd like to see Mike Malloy get this deal

[nolabear]

15. See? The rich are job producers!

*facepalm*

On a more optimistic note, they must think Obama's going to win. What on earth would he rant about otherwise?

[Phlem]

27. Nice!

-p

[tanyev]

20. Now don't go waste all that money on gold coins and survival kits, Glenn.

[Psephos]

21. Tax the mofo.

Like yoking up an oxen to do some useful work.

[12ZTR]

22. Hide the money

Beck & Romney will put their money in off planet accounts on Planet Kolob.

[CBHagman]

23. Geez, and people with advanced degrees struggle to find jobs.

This is evil, evil, evil.

[SnakeEyes]

26. i don't see how one is related to the other

[harmonicon]

35. Really?

I'm sure there's a wikipedia entry on socialism.

[ladjf]

24. We seem to be living in a reversed Universe where only illogical

activities handily replace logical ones.

[Akoto]

25. At last, I can get the latest on gold and apocalypse bunkers! n/t

[Marie Marie]

28. Does his radio show have any sponsors left or is this just another case of

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the right wing smear machine fronting the money to keep this lunatic on the air? I also question the ratings - are they as overblown as Oxy Man?

[MnExpat]

30. Ya gotta wonder about that.

Didn't we boycott him off the air at Faux Snooze. I remember Think Progress had a lot to do with getting rid of him.

But like a bad penny he keeps turning up. Time to crank up the boycotts again maybe?

[MnExpat]

29. 40 million a year from GBTV AND 20 million from his radio show

and yet the bastard abandons New York for Texas, like Limbaugh slinking off to Florida, to avoid paying his fair share of taxes. Something needs to be done about this, maybe all taxes should be Federal.

[YOHABLO]

31. Clear Channel ?

Maybe its time to boycott Clear Channel advertisement .. let's just campaign to get the bastard off the air.

[Turbineguy]

32. Hitler

would have done it for less. I'm sure of it!

[MrMickeysMom]

33. Is there any way to take back the airwaves?

Do they not belong to the public?

I can't even put this one in words . It's fricken absurd.

I used to listen to some serious shit on short wave when I was barely 40 and really beginning to ask questions. If I had stuck with something like Beck, I'd be fucking nuts and ready for the loon farm.

This is seriously fucked up. The numbers must be stations that play automatically in chain stores and Walmart break rooms.

Jesus H Christ, I'm going to bed...

[otohara]

36. Grossly Overpaid

this makes me sick.

[Incitatus]

37. Just as McDonald's shows, there's lots of money to be made

in feeding the masses shit.

[carrowsboy]

38. easy as 1-2-3...

Romney > Bain Capital > Clear Channel > Premiere Networks > (Rush + Sean + Beck) = yet another way to own an election.

(i.e. Bain owns Clear Channel/Premiere)

[siligut]

39. I knew they were right-wing assholes, but didn't know Clear Channel was owned by Bain

It is worse than I thought.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

40. There is a saying that only government cannot stifle free speech.