Hannity Minus Colmes
After being the token Liberal on Hannity and Colmes for 12 years, Alan Colmes has decided to move on.
Colmes said, “I approached Bill Shine (FNC’s Senior Vice President of Programming) earlier this year about wanting to move on after 12 years to develop new and challenging ways to contribute to the growth of the network. Although it’s bittersweet to leave one of the longest marriages on cable news, I’m proud that both Sean (Hannity) and I remained unharmed after sitting side by side, night after night for so many years.”
Colmes will have a presence on Fox News as a liberal commentator on a variety of FOX News programming, including Foxnews.com’s The Strategy Room and continue hosting his radio program, The Alan Colmes Show on FOX News Radio.
Hannity & Colmes is the only FNC program which has remained in the same timeslot for 12 years, catapulting to number one in 2003 and never relinquishing the top spot. The second highest-rated program in cable news behind only The O’Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes averaged 3.3 million viewers nightly for the Nielsen month of October and is poised to mark 60 consecutive months at number one at the end of November.
Sorry to see you go. Sean will have to search hard for another Liberal that can actually debate an issue and make any sense.
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November 24th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Never miss the show….I sure wish we had a Canadian Fox in Canada, but having to listen to Question Period and the liberal hacks hosting that – I now have switched and watch Fox 90% of my viewing time… I use to watch CNN – but that is another Jane Tabor and Oliver shooting their liberal views down our throats 100 % of the time. I think we in Canada should follow Danny Williams idea – start a anything but Jane Tabor and Oliver hosting Question Period. They are so liberal – they make me sick!