I would be perfectly happy if they expanded the Bret Baier and Cavuto programs to 1.5 hours, each. They put on, in my opinion, the most competent hourly broadcasts on all of television.

madisonian ; why relieved? If you don't watch why does it matter if he lectured? His success came because he "explained" and backed up his explanations with video and suggested reading material. Heaven forbid someone actually do this on television and get an audience. much better to have pontificators ramble on without genuine explanation, or worse soundbites. While I only watch occasionally, it's refreshing to have a subject thoroughly discussed for an entire show.

I vote to give Dennis Miller his own show in that time slot. Please.

It puzzles me that so many people ignore his radio show, which has a much larger audience. The left only started bringing him up when he got the Fox show. And now a lot of people (ie. bugg) act as though this means he's dropping off the national stage.

I think it's more likely that 3 hours of radio plus an hour of TV plus a website is more than he can handle, and he's going to *reduce* one of the three in order to avoid total burnout.

Well, no one can say that Beck didn't wear it out.

There were days when he was spellbinding in his presentation. But when he would appear with O'Reilly on the latter's show, one got the sense of a "cocktail personality," who would conform himself to the expectations of his surroundings.

I think that he went into a lot of things that he did not understand, but that few others who do what he does would even go near. He got many things right, but often mucked it up when he got them half-right, and he always came off as just a little crazy. He leaves an uncertain legacy.

Those who look beneath the surface of things do so at their own risk.

This is welcome news. Libearls constantly used his show as a way to discredit conservativism generally (despite the fact that calling Beck a conservative is problematic). We need mainstream appeal, not bleary-eye fanaticism. I second the motion to expand Cavuto and Special Report.

Beck apparently to crazy for even Ailes....wow.

Anyone who thinks Fox wants beck to leave is kidding themselves. No one else at 5PM has a shot of pulling in close to his audience.

If you follow Beck, his media empire is becoming astounding. His website is a smash success in just a few months. His radio show is still wildly popular, and the only reason people don't notice that is because Rush Limbaugh is simply a phenomenon that knows no equal. Beck is constantly touring the country doing shows. He produces documentaries and other video programming via his Insider Extreme subscribers, which he has also called wildly successful.

What I am trying to say is his Fox News show is probably the one thing in his empire he doesn't control, and thus with all his new enterprises, he no longer has the stamina for it all. Also, I believe Beck has had some serious health problems pop up in the last year.

Beck is a whacky guy who owes his popularity to the under-served market for the truth. While Beck goes off the deep end fairly frequently, most of our serious conservative outlets (including this one) spend too much of their time excitedly just dangling their toes in the water. Of course Obama is a socialist who feels more empathy with the "oppressed" of the third world than he does with America! Of course he has included in his close circle extreme radicals who are working a long-term plan to bring America to its knees and destroy capitalism! Of course he is consciously, but stealthily, redistributing as much wealth as he possibly can! All these things -- staples of Beckian thought -- are manifestly true. There are some at NR who are very bold, but mostly, the tone is entirely too timid considering the threat. It is the most profound, existential threat. How shrill is too shrill?