Megyn Kelly Seeks Salary North of $20 Million in Contract Talks With Fox News

[righteousmomma]

Wall Street Journal:

Joe Flint who wrote this article obviously writes with bias and does not "get it".

 

 

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@righteousmomma - I posted an article here a while back that the two sons are personally negotiating with her and that the consider her the 'future of Fox News". Don't know whether your article is for her or not - Wall Street Journal articles won't post properly and I be live that you have to sign up to read all of it - but IMHO she will be trouble in the future.

[righteousmomma]

For example:

 

As with other cable-news networks, Fox News has gotten an audience boost from interest in the presidential election. The network still easily beats rivals CNN and MSNBC in viewers and key demographics and often tops popular entertainment and sports channels. It also has long been a profit engine for 21st Century Fox, generating roughly 20% of its operating income. Fox News is known for opinion programming that tilts right politically. But Ms. Kelly, a former lawyer who cross-examines guests, has built a reputation for being more nuanced and less of an ideologue than colleagues like Mr. O’Reilly and Sean Hannity."

 

Ms. Kelly is viewed by some TV veterans as a vehicle for the network to turn from the hard right tone Mr. Ailes established to a more centrist approach.

 

“If they are going to make a network that is going to be a post-Ailes/post-Trump, it will be around Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace and Shep Smith, and they are going to have to throw Hannity and O’Reilly overboard,” said Andrew Tyndall, a television-news consultant, of other hosts at the network.

That isn’t going to happen, promised Mr. Murdoch. “We’re not changing direction…that would be business suicide,” he said.

 

 

So Fox is known for "hard right opinion tilt" -- only by the other msm/press opinion pundits who pass as journalists because they tilt hard left

I also love the way its taken for granted that Trump will lose: by this little "post -Trump"

 

And Shep Smith is an Ailes hire. Ailes made him head of the news - NOT the opinion sector.

 

Obviously and as usual Tyndall and Flint are liber/progessove Democrats disguised as fair and balanced consultants and journalists.

 

Btw, Mr. Flint, ratings for Kelly's show are down since her usual Fox base audience has turned her off. As a "news" pundit (and not an opinion host as Sean Hannity makes clear he is) Kelly has stepped in it.

[righteousmomma]

Geee, the article posts fine because I got it off a Drudge link. But in case you cannot access here is how it starts:

 

By JOE FLINT
Updated Oct. 27, 2016 12:03 a.m. ET
389 COMMENTS
Fox News star Megyn Kelly has changed agents and publicity teams since last year. Now the question is if she will change TV networks.

Host of “The Kelly File,” one of the cable-news channel’s most popular shows, Ms. Kelly is in active talks over her contract, which expires next July. Her profile has been rising during the presidential election cycle, in part thanks to a dust-up with Republican candidate Donald Trump.
Keeping Ms. Kelly is a priority for senior management, including Rupert Murdoch, chief executive of Fox News and co-executive chairman of its parent company, 21st Century Fox.
Asked if Ms. Kelly would stay at the channel, Mr. Murdoch said in an interview that she is important to the network and he hopes to get a contract signed “very soon,” but noted, “it’s up to her.”

Mr. Murdoch said he is kept abreast of the talks “every minute of the day.” While he doesn’t want to lose her, he said, “we have a deep bench of talent, many of whom would give their right arm for her spot.”

Mr. Murdoch and his family are major stakeholders in both 21st Century Fox and Wall Street Journal owner News Corp.
For the final year of her current deal, Ms. Kelly is set to receive about $15 million, people familiar with the matter said. The people said she is seeking an average annual salary north of $20 million for her next contract—which would put her on par with Fox host Bill O’Reilly.

Mr. Murdoch said money isn't an issue in the talks.

 

 

and it does say:

 

"Ms. Kelly has forged close ties to Mr. Murdoch’s sons, particularly Lachlan Murdoch, who is co-executive chairman of Fox and has taken an active role in contract talks, people close to the situation said."

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Geee, the article posts fine because I got it off a Drudge link.

 

Hmmm - wonder why I have trouble - that's why I never post WSJ articles Yes, Megan Kelly has been getting beat by Maddow in her time slot. That hasn't happened in many years. I think there have been too many articles the last couple of months about Trumps organization starting some sort of TrumpTV for there not to be some talk going on somewhere (you can best believe that Kelly is not part of that) . As I said here before, you can start to see changes slowly taking place at Fox now, what the future holds time will tell.

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Megyn Kelly: The Last Straw

 

The Megyn Kelly eight-minute interview with Newt Gingrich was riveting. For me, it also was the last straw.

 

Let the drive-by media attack Gingrich, but I thought it was his finest hour since he handled John King four years ago at that GOP primary debate, when King of CNN started attacking Newt by quoting Newt's bitterly vindictive ex-wife.

 

Our household has become quite sick of Kelly, much as I had gotten tired of Greta Van Susteren. Don't miss Greta a bit. I know that Fox News is not only "fair," but "balanced," and I comprehend that they ultimately have more influence by maintaining a broader viewership if they avoid being as one-sided as is MSNBC. Nevertheless, I have been finding Kelly more and more strident and less tolerable. It may be that, post-Ailes, she is playing out her Fox contract and jockeying for a move to CNN or elsewhere. Indeed, that would not be all bad – the presence at CNN of people with any amount of conservatism whatsoever is so rare that Kelly would be a good Trojan Horse to unload at CNN.

 

But with two weeks left to this deeply demoralizing presidential race that should have been a walk-away for the GOP – the country not only needs change, but wants change, and Hillary is the most despicable person ever to seek high office (yes, even more than Harding) – I am just sick of Kelly. And her arrogant comments to Newt at the end, telling him to "deal with his anger issues," were my last straw.

 

In my home, The Kelly File now is assigned to the "Circular File."

 

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/10/megyn_kelly_the_last_straw.html

[righteousmomma]

Interesting opinion piece by Rabbi Dov Fischer

 

and

Fox News has cultivated an entire second team on their Business News channel – Lou Dobbs, Neil Cavuto, Maria Bartiromo, so many others – and Megyn Kelly's reprehensible interview with Newt confirms that, really, Fox News without Megyn Kelly would be like Fox News without Greta Van Susteren.

 

I agree. Except for watching fox and Friends still some. We mostly watch Fox Business. Lou Dobbs is an unapologetic conservative (pro Trump) and makes no effort to hide it.

 

I do miss Greta though - unlike the rabbi.