Bill O'Reilly: sexual harassment claims

[Emily's Cat]

However, those ratings don't matter one iota when there are no advertisers.

If the ratings are high enough, someone will advertise. Maybe not the same folks who did before, but someone will fill that void.

 

[paulhutch]

However, those ratings don't matter one iota when there are no advertisers.

Yep, Glenn Beck was still getting very high ratings when advertisers started dropping and then He was gone from Fox.

 

[trustbutverify]

If the ratings are high enough, someone will advertise. Maybe not the same folks who did before, but someone will fill that void.

At least the depth of the client pool will be decreased, which is better than nothing. For people who think O'Reilly is garbage, I mean.

 

[Civet]

CNN just had a story about how his top advertiser is some outfit that sells gold. Apparently they're sticking around. Makes me wonder if O'Reilly can cobble together a team of advertisers similar to a blue-chip version of what Alex Jones uses. Survivalist stuff, weirdo health supplements, water purifiers and like that.

 

[carlitos]

I can't find it right now, but a few years ago there was a great article in the overlap between right wing news and scam marketing.


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[Jules Galen]

Now that Bill O'Reilly is being abandoned by his advertisers, he is effectively finished. He will soon become a forgotten has-been like that loud-mouthed, talk-radio fat guy who fell into obscurity a few years ago.

Asta La Vista Bill!

 

[The Don]

Now that Bill O'Reilly is being abandoned by his advertisers, he is effectively finished. He will soon become a forgotten has-been like that loud-mouthed, talk-radio fat guy who fell into obscurity a few years ago.

Asta La Vista Bill!

Then again, characters like him are like Japanese Knotweed, notoriously difficult to get rid of.

If he can still attract some sponsors then he'll stay on FOX, else he'll find another channel.

 

[Babbylonian]

Then again, characters like him are like Japanese Knotweed, notoriously difficult to get rid of.

If he can still attract some sponsors then he'll stay on FOX, else he'll find another channel.

Maybe, but don't underestimate the aversion to liability. It's one thing to hire someone controversial, it's another to hire someone who will almost certainly get you sued for sexual harassment.

 

[dudalb]

CNN just had a story about how his top advertiser is some outfit that sells gold. Apparently they're sticking around. Makes me wonder if O'Reilly can cobble together a team of advertisers similar to a blue-chip version of what Alex Jones uses. Survivalist stuff, weirdo health supplements, water purifiers and like that.

Pretty much what Glenn Beck did. Problem is ,Fox will have to lower it's ad rates for those companies since they don't have the kind of money to spend that the big time sponsers that O Reilly is losing did.
Main reason for keeping O Reilly is the same reason they kept Beck around...as a locomotive..somebody who brings in a big audience that sticks around for other Fox shows. It has yet to be seen how these charges will impact O Reilly's ratings.

 

[dudalb]

However, those ratings don't matter one iota when there are no advertisers.

Not exactly true; depends on how many O Reilly viewers stick around for other Fox Shows. TV Networks spend a lot of time in scheduling shows in a way that a strong show can help a new or weaker show.

 

[dudalb]

If the ratings are high enough, someone will advertise. Maybe not the same folks who did before, but someone will fill that void.

Problem is the kind of companies that the show will pick up will not be able to pay the kind of ad rates that the ones who left did. The means Fox will have to charge lower rates, and that means less profit for Fox.

 

[mgidm86]

She accused the host of withdrawing a job offer after she declined his invitation to go with him to his hotel suite after a dinner in 2013.

and
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/business/media/fox-news-roger-ailes-harassment-suit.html?_r=0

Ms. Walsh, speaking in Los Angeles, repeated the account she provided to The Times. She said that Mr. O’Reilly did not follow through on a verbal offer to make her a contributor to his show after she declined an invitation to go to his hotel suite after a 2013 dinner in Los Angeles that was arranged by his secretary. She has not received a settlement and said she does not want any money. She did not report her complaints to Fox News at the time, she said, because she did not want to jeopardize her career prospects.

Good luck with that.

Hey, maybe he's totally guilty, but after a company I worked for got sued by a female employee who claimed sexual harassment and a myriad of other things that she completely fabricated (and lost), I am skeptical.

People like her actually make it more difficult for legitimate cases to be tried.

Her lawyer, Lisa Bloom, said Fox News was the "Bill Cosby of corporate America", in reference to the TV entertainer who is facing multiple sex assault claims.

Was Cosby convicted, I hadn't heard? I know that many women are treated improperly, but thanks to women like the one who sued my employer, I must remain highly skeptical.

 

[Jules Galen]

Then again, characters like him are like Japanese Knotweed, notoriously difficult to get rid of.

If he can still attract some sponsors then he'll stay on FOX, else he'll find another channel.

I agree. I don't think he'll disappear....just become irelavent and eventually forgotten.

 

[trustbutverify]

Now that Bill O'Reilly is being abandoned by his advertisers, he is effectively finished. He will soon become a forgotten has-been like that loud-mouthed, talk-radio fat guy who fell into obscurity a few years ago.

Asta La Vista Bill!

I wish.

 

[trustbutverify]

Problem is the kind of companies that the show will pick up will not be able to pay the kind of ad rates that the ones who left did. The means Fox will have to charge lower rates, and that means less profit for Fox.

Agreed. Will they then lower his gigantic compensation?

 

[dudalb]

Agreed. Will they then lower his gigantic compensation?

Depends on the terms of his contract.

 

[a_unique_person]

and
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/business/media/fox-news-roger-ailes-harassment-suit.html?_r=0



Good luck with that.

Hey, maybe he's totally guilty, but after a company I worked for got sued by a female employee who claimed sexual harassment and a myriad of other things that she completely fabricated (and lost), I am skeptical.

People like her actually make it more difficult for legitimate cases to be tried.



Was Cosby convicted, I hadn't heard? I know that many women are treated improperly, but thanks to women like the one who sued my employer, I must remain highly skeptical.

When you get multiple woman claiming the same thing the odds of a fake claim drop.

 

[Stacko]

Depends on the terms of his contract.

They just renewed it which has to be placing some bad incentives on them to keep him.

 

[paulhutch]

They just renewed it which has to be placing some bad incentives on them to keep him.

Wow they renewed his contract the same day the NYT article published and just a day or two before the major advertisers started pulling out. I'm guessing Rupert Murdoch has been rather grumpy this week.

 

[Babbylonian]

Wow they renewed his contract the same day the NYT article published and just a day or two before the major advertisers started pulling out. I'm guessing Rupert Murdoch has been rather grumpy this week.

Unless their lawyers are incompetent, I'm sure there's a way out. They certainly can't go with any morals clause, though, since they signed him while knowing the score...which is great news for anyone else with a case to make as the company can't pretend they were unaware in order to get off the hook in future lawsuits.