Sources: Fox News Has Decided Bill O’Reilly Has to Go

[BlueStateSaint]

21 years . . .

Sources: Fox News Has Decided Bill O’Reilly Has to Go

April 19, 2017 
11:20 a.m.

By  Gabriel Sherman

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 multi-year 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.

The other three paragraphs are over at the link . . . http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/sources-fox-news-has-decided-bill-oreilly-has-to-go.html

[USA4ME]

I don't know what he did or didn't do, but he had to know he was a target and anything questionable he did would be enhanced. Likely chance he did something, or even crossed into a gray area, which is a big no-no.

He had a good run. Someone else will step in and pick up where he did. No guarantees they'll do as well, but it's possible.

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[thundley4]

Liberals have found out that concentrated attacks individuals work. That is their method of going after President Trump's administration and now they are hitting Fox News.

Hannity will be their next target, or maybe Tucker Carlson since he destroys any liberals stupid enough to go on his show.

[J P Sousa]

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

The video examples given at the above link are pathetic for sexual harassment.