Glenn Beck Re-Signs Radio Contract For $50 Mil

New York Times:

On his daily radio talk show, Glenn Beck portrays himself as an average guy, a recovering alcoholic and a comedian who regularly injects humor into his conservative politics.

This week he can add another description: very wealthy.

Premiere Radio Networks, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, is expected to announce today that it is extending Mr. Beck's contract. Two sources with knowledge of the deal said it was valued at $50 million over five years, through a combination of salary and profit-sharing from syndication.

In signing the deal, Mr. Beck, 43, becomes the newest -- and youngest -- entrant into an exclusive club of highly compensated radio stars. The new contract would make Mr. Beck the third highest-paid talk radio host, surpassed only by Rush Limbaugh, the most popular terrestrial talker for two decades and whose show is also syndicated by Premiere, and Sean Hannity, whose Citadel Broadcasting show is routinely ranked second.

The salaries apparently mirror Arbitron's radio audience measurements, which show that Mr. Beck is the third most popular radio host in the advertiser-friendly 25- to 54-year-old demographic.

Read the whole story: New York Times

Comments

[Tator]

Where is Welfare Radio (Air America) when you need it?

[Bulbul]

Who is Glenn Beck ?

[Incredulous]

American must love the taste of shit, because they sure swallow a lot of it, from hate-mongers like Glenn Beck. You're tuning in to this crap, and swallowing it? No wonder your country's so fucked up!

[MinneapolisBob]

This goes to show racism, xenophobia and bigotry are very much alive in this country, and corporate America along with mostly White (male) Americans supports it.

If those who listen to this garbage don't, then Beck, Savage, Hannity, Limbaugh and their ilk won't be financially rewarded for spreading their hate and discourse.

[Unrepentantliberal]

Glenn Beck? What an awful little creep that only a subsidiary for Clear Channel could love. Heaven forbid they could give a progressive radio personality a show that would attract more listeners and make more money, but no............

[TheLastPenguin]

Beck who?

[A Meat Beetle]

Wow, a hysterical right-wing crank on the radio. It's an idea whose time has come!

[shockmagog]

The article states:

'Premiere Radio Networks, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, is expected to announce today that it is extending Mr. Beck’s contract.'

Glenn Beck, one of the sphincter-hole mouthpieces for what the Right Wing idiots call the "Liberal Media," was once the figurehead for the Clear Channel pro-war rallies in 2003:
http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/04/18_clear.html

The Clear Channel pro-war rallies were specifically designed by the Bush-supporting Corporate Media to counter the grassroots rallies of the anti-Iraq invasion movement.
http://www.glennbeck.com/home/rally.shtml

It's just typical of the "Liberal Media" to push its radical socialist agenda with the likes of Glenn Beck.

[dax49]

first don imus, then this shithead- no wonder this country is in the toilet

[RedWhiteandBrooklyn]

$50 million for being a racist jackass in public? Just how dumb has this nation become?

[Honza]

And I thought they got rid of the Kook Klucks Klan, SHEEEET MON, they gonna start all ova on that rodio makin that Pecker Beck the high potentate.

[hippybaby1970]

another celebration of mediocrity; a drunk circus monkey could do a better job.

[loki]

Good god, what has America come to. This is the real life version of the MTV show JACKASS.

[eugenegerard]

Mind Boggling. Blow Jobs go for $50.00 on the street and he gets 50 million for doing it on the radio.

[atomic]

GLen Beck is just another right wing hate monger. It doesn't surprise me that the right wing is going to fly high as a kite while the United States falls into a dictatorship run by the corporate elite.

No wonder the very media giants that want control keep paying out huge sums for these right wing radio Nazis ... who promote infighting and confusion.