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.

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Comments

[wagonjak]

Glen Beck is the most pathetic piece of trailer trash I've ever had the misfortune to listen to...of course for his stupidity and ignorance he gets the big bucks...

Look at all the idiots at Faux News...

[balleryna2]

What is more nauseating? Listening to Glen Beck? or learning that our media has hit an even lower low (think: trap door flinging out from underneath you, funhouse style), by paying for such trash?

And, these are the same folks who think Hillary and the Dems are "evil". Makes me so sad...

[FDRbyGodDemocrat]

Where did he get that outfit in the picture? The deck of the Starship Enterprise?

[Navy26Yrs]

24% of America knows how to tune an AM radio to him and support the advertisers he uses. 24% doesn't sound like a lot but when you figure 24% of 200 million, that is a large group of people.

If progressives, left leaning moderates and all the centrists of all parties grew some balls we could easily do away with Blech and his ilk by not buying in to the game...by not buying the products made by the advertisers and contacting the advertisers and expressing ourselves to them.

If you are not active in your goals to get rid of vermin and choose instead to sit back and watch the show that rolls by then you are sleeping with the rats.

[crashingtiger]

I wish someone would pay me that much money to be a jerk.

[Ginzaman]

F*****g a*****e scumbags make tons of money. And people with integrity like Springsteen get censored by the same radio conglomerates. Free speech is dead and gone.

[geobushono]

-the right is giving bread and circuses to that last 24% in this final act for rightwing crazies.....they'll give fortunes just to have a new face reassure the stupids among us.

[jbstonesfan]

Good for him!!! Sadly, we liberals have no one that even comes close to the righties when it comes to talk radio, or TV for that matter. They know their target audience and have a very loyal following. The left only seems to put people on who think 9/11 was a "inside" job and have no sense of humor.

[Moshe]

I used to think Glenn Beck was the dumbest, most over-rated person I had ever seen. But now I think that title belongs to whoever decided to give this butt-clown a $50 million contract (or to the people that would actually listen to this guy's opinion on anything).

I guess it's true:

"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." (H.L. Mencken)

[scottarino]

The man just has a gimmick, a tried and true one....Fear. I'm sure ol Glen isn't really an insane guy like he appears on TV and radio, it just sells well to the stupid masses. Just like Maxim mag sells well to teenage boys too young to buy real porn. It's all just cheap entertainment, let the morons think he's bonified. Let the ignorant have their toy show. You can't get worked up over the rantings of a fake news commentator. History will judge him truthfully.

[tkk]

What a great country, all you have to do is get on the airwaves and talk stupid to make millions.

[cynic]

Why is this waste of oxygen still alive?

[mollysgran]

If I am not mistaken, the company that just bought Clear Channel is part of the CARLYLE GROUP --- so now the Bush and Bin Laden family will have even more influence in bringing the downfall of Democracy in the U.S.

[vippy]

Have not watched CNN since Glenn Beck is on the air there. Did not care for him on his radio
AM Talk Show either. He is into twisting and
spinning the news. With 50 mil I guess I would do same though!

[mediamarv]

wow, that is one well paid turd!!

Only in America.