New York – Top-rated Host Bill O’Reilly Is Reportedly Out At Fox News

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    Posters featuring Fox News Channel talent including TV anchor Bill O'Reilly are seen outside the News Corporation headquarters in New York City, in New York, U.S. April 19, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonNew York – Fox News has decided to part ways with star host Bill O’Reilly following allegations of harassment, New York magazine reported on Wednesday, citing anonymous sources briefed on the discussions.

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    O’Reilly said in an April 1 statement that he had been unfairly targeted because of his public prominence. Marc Kasowitz, O’Reilly’s lawyer, said in a statement on Tuesday that the television host “has been subjected to a brutal campaign of character assassination that is unprecedented in post-McCarthyist America.”

    It is not known exactly how Fox News will handle O’Reilly’s exit or whether he would be allowed to say goodbye to viewers on the air, according to the New York magazine report.

    Representatives at Fox News and its parent Twenty-First Century Fox Inc were not immediately available for comment. A representative for O’Reilly declined to comment.

    The New York Times reported on April 1 that Fox and O’Reilly, a 20-year veteran of the conservative cable network, paid five women a total of $13 million to settle harassment claims.

    O’Reilly said in the statement at the time that he had settled only to spare his children from the controversy.

    After the report advertisers including BMW of North America, Allstate Corp, French pharmaceuticals maker Sanofi SA and T. Rowe Price, pulled their advertising from O’Reilly’s primetime “The O’Reilly Factor” show.

    The five women who received settlements either worked for O’Reilly or appeared as guests on his program, according to the New York Times story.

    Fox News anchor Laurie Dhue accused O’Reilly and Fox News founding chairman Roger Ailes of harassing her, but not sexually, and Juliet Huddy, a regular guest on O’Reilly’s show, accused him of pursuing a sexual relationship with her and trying to hamper her career after she rejected his advances, the newspaper reported.

    The largest settlement was a payout of $9 million in a harassment lawsuit former Fox News producer Andrea Mackris brought against O’Reilly in 2004, according to the New York Times.

    Ailes was forced to resign in July after being accused of misconduct by a number of women, including former anchor Gretchen Carlson. Ailes has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

    Twenty-First Century Fox has tapped the law firm Paul, Weiss Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, which also looked into the allegations against Ailes, to investigate O’Reilly’s conduct.

    “The O’Reilly Factor” is the most watched program on Fox News and is coming off the highest-rated first quarter in its history, averaging 4 million viewers, according to Nielsen.

    The network has continued to enjoy high ratings despite the exodus of advertisers from O’Reilly’s show and a spate of allegations that executives turned a blind eye to misconduct there.


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    bsnow
    bsnow
    6 years ago

    Stupidest move ever!

    Sam23
    Sam23
    6 years ago

    Stupid move by fox caving in to a leftist blackmail campaign basen in allegations with no proof. It wont end with Oreilly they will go after Hannity, Limbaugh & others Trump understood that well. Thats why he fights back & doesnt surrender like Fox. Breitbart or some other group shoud start a new network with Oreilly as lead.

    abilenetx
    abilenetx
    6 years ago

    Maybe the Arab share holders and others are starting to complain and to much truth is getting said, and Fox is being threated they will take their money and leave. Look how many have been replaced already at fox and I am sure there will be more coming until you will not recognize the station, therefore the Arab share holders and others who don’t like the truth are more important then its watchers.

    6 years ago

    I can’t understand anybody on this site supporting Bill O’Reilly; in addition to being a sexual pervert and sexual predator, he was a bully to many people, whom he interviewed. He was also physically abusive to his ex-wife. His own daughter testified in Family Court, that she saw O’Reilly pulling her Mother down a flight of stairs, by her hair. O’Reilly wasn’t even that great of an author, either, as a number of his books (i.e. “Killing Patton”) contained a number of historical errors, with the wrong facts and wrong dates, which still have not been corrected. Rupert Murdoch should have thrown O’Reilly out, at the same time that Fox got rid of another sexual pervert, by the name of Roger Aisles.

    Unfortunately, both O’Reilly, and Trump are birds of the same feather, regarding their treatment of women. In O’Reilly’s case, he was caught, as one of the women recorded O’Reilly’s perverted telephone conversations.