{"id":15265,"date":"2017-04-20T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15265"},"modified":"2017-04-20T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:45:00","slug":"the-economics-of-firing-bill-oreilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/the-economics-of-firing-bill-oreilly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Firing Bill O&#8217;Reilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/042017_1341_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bill O&#8217;Reilly, the famous news personality, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/right-turn\/wp\/2017\/04\/20\/five-lessons-from-bill-oreillys-ouster\/\">ousted from Fox News<\/a> due to multiple sexual harassment allegations. Michelle Castillo looked at some of the numbers involved:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>O&#8217;Reilly brought in $325 million in ad revenue alone last year.<\/li>\n<li>In return he had a contract worth $20 million a year \u2013 meaning Fox News made a 1,500% return on investment on him.<\/li>\n<li>In that context it becomes clearer why Fox News helped pay some of the $13 million to settle the harassment lawsuits.<\/li>\n<li>After the settlements came to light most major advertizers deserted the show, making it difficult for Fox to justify the economics of keeping it on air.<\/li>\n<li>Some have predicted that Fox could lose up to $100 million a year because of the O&#8217;Reilly saga.<\/li>\n<li>Others disagree, saying that the network is not reliant on individual personalities. When Megyn Kelly &#8211; another famous news personality \u2013 left, the network&#8217;s ratings actually went up.<\/li>\n<li>Shares in Fox News&#8217; parent company dropped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bill-oreilly-fox-news-out-wall-street\/\">less than 1%<\/a> on the day of the announcement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/finance-companies\/here%e2%80%99s-how-much-money-bill-o%e2%80%99reilly%e2%80%99s-show-made-according-to-one-analyst\/ar-BBA3ezw?ocid=Money\">MSN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill O&#8217;Reilly, the famous news personality, has been ousted from Fox News due to multiple sexual harassment allegations. Michelle Castillo looked at some of the numbers involved: O&#8217;Reilly brought in $325 million in ad revenue alone last year. In return he had a contract worth $20 million a year \u2013 meaning Fox News made a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/042017_1341_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15268,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15265\/revisions\/15268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}