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

[RanceSpergl]

No justice in this world. People starve and this punk fills his coffers.

Speaking of which, I'm suffering a disconnect here, peoples. If XX% of people are finally against the war and XX% thinks the administration are actual goblins then who are the sympathetic listeners who compose the audience from whom these right-wing yahoos reap these profane profits?

Who IS the audience for Rush, Savage, Beck? No one I know. But I'm an insurgent dead-ender, go figure.

[wadenelson1]

Every talk radio listener I've ever met was a racist bigot.

They blame illegal immigrants for all of America's ills, just like the Nazi's liked to blame the Jews.

They're the 22% percenters who still think the war on Iraq could be won, if only the press wasn't so negative.

They're universally uneducated, lower class people who for whatever reason, STILL buy whatever b.s. the Republican party feeds them about "work hard and achieve the American dream."

And if they somehow can't achieve that dream, it's always the illegal aliens' fault.

[MajorKong]

Glen Beck is ...
- oh what's the term I'm looking for here?
- wait a second, it'll come to me....
- oh yeah, completely batshit insane.

[white mende man]

the three top buffoons, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, money does buy happiness or was that blind sheep.

[white mende man]

hmmmm so there are people who listen to that asshole lol

[KindAndThoughtful]

I don't always agree with Glenn Beck, but I like the fact that he seems like a nice guy and actually listens to his guests instead of interrupting them like other talk show hosts.

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[Maila]

Glenn Beck should do the world a favor and buy himself a drink.

[Quaoar]

Beck quit? I guess that's just wishful thinking by the headline writer.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

I watched one of Glenn Beck's shows on youtube a few months ago.

the man is certifiably insane.

[justjohn]

Note to HuffPo headline writer: "Resigns" and "Re-Signs" are two different things.