Megyn Kelly Is Said To Be Leaving Fox News for NBC

[Silver Pines]

Megyn Kelly Is Said To Be Leaving Fox News for NBC

January 3, 2017
By Jim Rutenberg


Megyn Kelly, who arrived at Fox News 12 years ago as a television news neophyte but rose to become one of its two biggest stars, has decided to leave the network to take on a broad new role at NBC News for an undisclosed amount, people briefed on the negotiations said on Tuesday.

The NBC News chairman, Andrew Lack, wooed Ms. Kelly away from Fox News by offering her a triple role in which she will host her own daytime news and discussion program, anchor an in-depth Sunday night news show and take regular part in the network’s special political programming and other big-event coverage.

The move will herald a seismic shift in the cable news landscape, where Ms. Kelly had become the second-most watched host — after Bill O’Reilly of Fox News — and often helped define the national political debate, especially over the last year as Donald J. Trump regularly attacked her, at times in viciously personal terms.

Ms. Kelly’s departure would upend Fox News’s vaunted prime-time lineup and inject a new dose of tumult just a few months after the departure of the network’s powerful founding chairman, Roger Ailes, who was ousted after several women made allegations that he sexually harassed them.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/03/business/media/megyn-kelly-nbc-fox-news.html?_r=0

[Silver Pines]

If this is in the wrong place, mods feel free to move it wherever.

[Night Hides Not]

Seismic shift? Hardly.

I fully expect Ms. Kelly to receive a tepid welcome from NBC's news staff.

[dfwgator]

She can finally come out as the Liberal she's always been.

[Wingnut]

Seismic shift? Hardly.

I fully expect Ms. Kelly to receive a tepid welcome from NBC's news staff.

Her reception at NBC....Compared to the to Titanic.... hit a heatberg.

[DCPatriot]

Say "hello" to Tomi Lahren!

But, I'm surprised she's not worthy in their eyes to anchor the evening news....in a Bret Baier format news hour.

[Silver Pines]

I don't have much of an opinion of her either way, but I don't think she's a liberal or a conservative.  I'm reading her book, and she says more than once that she was raised without poliltics and has remained that way.  Her Trump problems didn't make her a liberal.  She asked hard questions of a man running for president, which is what she should have done.

She says someone at school told her daughter Donald Trump was going to kill her (the child), and Megyn told her that Trump was a very good daddy and would never do such a thing that to a little girl or boy.

The book is fairly interesting, I guess...I needed a read and it's currently fulfilling the purpose.  One thing about Megyn, though---she's a chronic bragger, almost to a cringeworthy degree.

[jpsb]

She can finally come out as the Liberal she's always been.

BUMP!

[jpsb]

Say "hello" to Tomi Lahren!

But, I'm surprised she's not worthy in their eyes to anchor the evening news....in a Bret Baier format news hour.

Wouldn't that be great for Fox News. I'd trade MeAgain Kelly for Tami in a New York second. I might even get cable again just to watch Tami rip liberal heads off.

Maybe Greta can come back now?

[TomSea]

In my view, liberal but not always liberal.

[Sanguine]

She can finally come out as the Liberal she's always been.

@dfwgator, why do you think she's a leftist?  (I'm assuming that's what you meant by liberal).

[mirraflake]

Say "hello" to Tomi Lahren!

Yes to Tomi or Lauren Southern or newcomer Scarlett Farkrar

@DCPatriot

[Frank Cannon]

This type of move always turns out great....

[mirraflake]

I don't have much of an opinion of her either way, but I don't think she's a liberal or a conservative.

I have always thought most of the women on Fox are not social conservatives but financially conservative but neither far left liberal or far right conservative.

I also think many of the independent news babes out there, Lauren Southern, Tomi Lahren types ( though not specifically them) are really more liberal than they appear but use conservatism to milk their career. If you are a hot woman easier to break into conservative media than liberal media.

@CatherineofAragon

[Cripplecreek]

About the only on air personality on FOX who wasn't part of the Trump campaign.

[Frank Cannon]

Say "hello" to Tomi Lahren!

But, I'm surprised she's not worthy in their eyes to anchor the evening news....in a Bret Baier format news hour.

Tomi Lehren is as dumb as a box of hammers.

[Frank Cannon]

About the only on air personality on FOX who wasn't part of the Trump campaign.

Interestingly, Hannity was the only on air personality on FOX that wasn't sexually harassed by Ailes.

[jmyrlefuller]

Say "hello" to Tomi Lahren!

If Fox hires that unqualified bimbo—and that's putting it mildly—it will prove they are just as corrupt as the rest of the media.

It can't hurt to actually put a man in a media position like this, can it?

[Night Hides Not]

Yes to Tomi or Lauren Southern or newcomer Scarlett Farkrar

@DCPatriot

I'd prefer they bring in Kennedy from Fox Biz. Fox has a pretty deep bench of talent: two young potential stars in Joanne N and Kat Timpf, usually on the late night Fox show started by Gutfeld.

[Victoria33]

@CatherineofAragon

If one reads the article, NBC asked her want she wanted in terms of time, then tailored her wants to fit what she wanted.  The article says she will have a daily show that allows her to see her children off to school in the morning and have dinner with the family in the evening.  Her daily show will not be just about politics and she will bring in panels for discussion.  Then, she will have a Sunday evening show.

Her contact with Fox is not up until summer and it is not known if Fox will release her now to join NBC.

When she is on NBC, I will watch her just as I have on Fox.  In my opinion, she is more conservative than liberal and I have watched her since she began with Fox.

[driftdiver]

About the only on air personality on FOX who wasn't part of the Trump campaign.

@Cripplecreek

Probably because she was planning the move or at least leaving her options open.

Do they really think she'll draw in additional viewers?   I don't watch NBC news and certainly wont bother to tune in just to see her.

[mystery-ak]

Interestingly, Hannity was the only on air personality on FOX that wasn't sexually harassed by Ailes.

Do we know that for sure...

[Cripplecreek]

Interestingly, Hannity was the only on air personality on FOX that wasn't sexually harassed by Ailes.

Probably made a deal to stay off Trump's turf.

[Silver Pines]

I have always thought most of the women on Fox are not social conservatives but financially conservative but neither far left liberal or far right conservative.

I also think many of the independent news babes out there, Lauren Southern, Tomi Lahren types ( though not specifically them) are really more liberal than they appear but use conservatism to milk their career. If you are a hot woman easier to break into conservative media than liberal media.

@CatherineofAragon

@mirraflake

You might be right about the women at Fox.  I expect Shannon Bream might be socially conservative; she's a Liberty University graduate.

I don't even know who Southern and Lahren are, lol.

[musiclady]

She can finally come out as the Liberal she's always been.

She's a liberal because she opposed liberal Trump??

How exactly does that work?

I've always thought she was pretty objective, leaning conservative.  She's been very hard on millennial college aged "cupcakes" and their desire to be protected from anything they disagree with.

That upped her value in my book.

And she called Trump on his overt misogyny, which did a great service to the women in this country, none of whom Trump respects.

However, since I now don't watch anything on TrumpFoxTrump any more, I won't miss her......