Don Imus' Fox Business Deal Worth Around $3 Million

The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove raised some eyebrows earlier this week when he speculated that Don Imus' contract with Fox Business Network was worth more than $25 million:

Fox News czar Roger Ailes has been wooing the radio jock for the past two years, and finally pried him loose from a reported $25 million contract with the rural-oriented RFD-TV network, flashing presumably bigger bucks to simulcast Imus' Citadel-produced radio show and lift Fox Business Network out of the ratings basement

The contract is actually valued at around $3 million, according to insiders with knowledge of the deal.

The arrival of a big-name star like Imus is expected to boost the fledgling network's visibility and ratings — already, his debut was one of the most-watched programs in Fox Business history and beat the timeslot's average by 1500 percent. But insiders also say that there wasn't much wooing going on, as Imus, too, gets more than just $3 million out of the deal: the chance to be seen by hundreds of thousands of viewers on a national TV network for the first time since his controversial 2007 remarks got him removed from MSNBC.

Comments

[solarian]

he reminds me of the pace commercial he is from new york city tenderfoot not a cowboy fake. who cares about him his wife or children just go away and get some cancer treatment

[BambooHarvester]

That hat double as his porta-poty ..........­..........
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[Okieborn]

Take the over-sized western hat off of Don Imus and all you have left is a bigot with wrinkles !!!

[grf67]

ailes and murdock have more money than sense.

[neocon666]

Don Imus is a shadow of his former self (figuratively and literally); this guy used to regularly trash the Fox bozos, and now he's kissing their @sses.

[satyriasis]

Imus should never have been fired from MSNBC. He was popular on the network and did a great service by bashing Fox and calling Cheney a war criminal. Now thanks to the cowardice of MSNBC, and Imus's own ambitions, he's sold his soul to Satan for twenty coins of silver.

[harriettubman]

Ever notice how a certain segment of society continues to stick together since before, during and after Jim Crow? The anti-ab*rtionist who bl*w up the clinics was cared for for a very long time. He had food, clothing and shelter. Make a ra*ist joke, lose your job, they will hire you and give you tons of money. Limbaugh's show is successful because of his brash and ra*ist commentary as well.

Hannity will edit anything he deems newsworthy to spin it to his liking and report on it over and over and over again. It's like brain washing his viewers. And they call one class of students singing an Obama song, brainwashing. Hmmmm.....­.

[mediamarv]

Nothing has been updated in this section (Media) for two days!!
WTF?

[BobABooey]

When will these people just go away and enjoy their money ??

[springbaby]

Hey guys, go easy on Imus...he does a lot of good for sick and needy kids:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3359675

[Cogs]

Imus has jumped onboard a sinking ship.

[mcmutter]

Once FOX owns all the loose marbles they will open an Asylum....

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

Imus seems about as relevant as Lawrence Welk and barely more alive

[greysells2]

The hat and the get up are so silly. Like a teen goth dressing up to get a reaction.

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

Yep, he's a poser.

[pfc1369]

Just stumble around for decades as a dj, way past the time you had the slightest interest in music, go town to town (they're always hiring and firing with the old dj gigs) and if you are really lucky, the country will eventually be dumbed-down to the point where you can mumble all over the T.V.

You make millions in America that way sometimes.

[hypnotoad72]

Imus, the cowboy-hatted ho. Seems apropos, given the typical "quality" that gets upchucked out of FOX...