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| Alan Colmes to Depart Top Rated Hannity & Colmes |
| 2008-11-25 |
| FOX News Channel's (FNC) Alan Colmes will relinquish his role as co-host of Hannity & Colmes at the end of the year. In announcing his decision, Colmes said, "I approached Bill Shine (FNC's Senior Vice President of Programming) earlier this year about wanting to move on after 12 years to develop new and challenging ways to contribute to the growth of the network. Although it's bittersweet to leave one of the longest marriages on cable news, I'm proud that both Sean (Hannity) and I remained unharmed after sitting side by side, night after night for so many years." Colmes will continue to have a presence on FNC as he will serve as a liberal commentator on a variety of FOX News programming, including Foxnews.com's The Strategy Room and continue hosting his radio program, The Alan Colmes Show on FOX Talk, a division of FOX News Radio. He will also begin developing a weekend program. Shine said, "We're very sorry to see Alan reach this decision but we understand his desire to seek other creative challenges in his career. We value his incredible hard work in making Hannity & Colmes the most successful debate program on cable news and we're going to miss him on the show. Thankfully, he will begin developing a weekend pilot for us." FOX News Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Roger Ailes added, "Alan is one of the key reasons why FOX News has been such a remarkable success. We're sad to see him leave the program but we look forward to his ongoing contributions to the network." Hannity & Colmes is the only FNC program which has remained in the same timeslot for 12 years, catapulting to number one in 2003 and never relinquishing the top spot. The second highest-rated program in cable news behind only The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes averaged 3.3 million viewers nightly for the Nielsen month of October and is poised to mark 60 consecutive months at number one at the end of November. Hannity added, "Not only has Alan been a remarkable co-host, he's been a great friend which is rare in this industry -- I'll genuinely miss sparring with such a skillful debate partner." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 I can't watch that show for more than about 30 seconds. It gives me a headache. Everyone is yelling at one another, nothing more than a sound bite is said...just utter bs. They can both go AFAIC. |
| Posted by: remoteman 2008-11-25 14:50 |
| #5 Hmmm, wonder if this could be prep work for a potential resurgence of the "Fairness" Doctrine... |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2008-11-25 12:58 |
| #4 I'm amazed he lasted as long as he did on that show. I don't particularly like the yell at each 'cross-fire' style shows and think they should just end the show rather than rename it with a new cohost. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-11-25 11:10 |
| #3 Love listening to the leftist's positions but Colmes' were rather rote-ish and DNC talking-point-esque. Little objective thought there and to be fair Hannity had about the same approach from the conservate side but he at least criticised Repulicans when warranted. |
| Posted by: hammerhead 2008-11-25 11:05 |
| #2 Story line is Colmes "asked" to go. I doubt it. Hannity found out he was better received on his own with his radio show. Time to let ole Colmes join the looney left group. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-11-25 09:59 |
| #1 Great! Now can we look forward to "Hannity and Coulter"? Maybe Alan found he can make more money getting folks all riled up about global warming. ;-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-11-25 05:17 |