**UPDATE**
Bill O’Reilly will join Glenn Beck on his radio show every Friday to discuss the week’s top stories and political events.
For years, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly hosted the top cable news networks’ most popular show, The O’Reilly Factor. Now, just weeks after being let go and while facing multiple sexual harassment charges, multiple conservative networks are ready to bring Bill O’Reilly back to television!
According to an exclusive report by the New York Daily News, One America Network and Sinclair are both hinting that they are ready to offer O’Reilly millions for his return.
This is extraordinary, and good news for The O’Reilly Factor:
“Bill O’Reilly has been nothing short of a powerhouse in cable news. We have received thousands of requests to add Mr. O’Reilly to our team,” Charles Herring, CEO of San Diego-based One America Network, told MediaBlast in an email.
He added: “I’m sure several national cable news networks have expressed strong interest in Mr. O’Reilly, and One America News is no exception, but we have no further comments at this time.”
Sources tell Mediablast that O’Reilly is also being pursued by executives at Sinclair, a huge right-leaning broadcaster.
Sinclair owns 170 TV stations, including Chicago’s superstation WGN, and struck a $3.9-million deal this month to buy Tribune media and its 42 stations.
Sinclair is a powerful network of channels and is probably the only company that could offer serious competition for Fox News. They are currently preparing to turn nationally syndicated WGN into a conservative news network and complete for Fox News’ millions of viewers.
O’Reilly’s representatives are not responding to questions, but O’Reilly has made it clear that he’s not retiring anytime soon. He may also be considering launching his own media outlet, similar to Glenn Beck and TheBlaze.
Bill O’Reilly has also been firing back against accusers, noting that his abrupt firing from Fox News was a “hit” from left-wing activists:
In conversation with Glenn Beck on The Blaze‘s radio program, O’Reilly said this of all of the women who came forward with accusations and all of the advertisers who left O’Reilly’s program as a result:
This was a hit. In the weeks to come, we’re gonna be able to explain some of it. It has to do with destroying voices that the far left and the organized left-wing cabal doesn’t like. That’s the general tone. I can’t get specific. There’s a lot of legality here.
He insisted that he would reveal very “soon” who had targeted him and worked to remove him from the air by going after his advertisers. (Groups like Sleeping Giants and Color of Change are already publicly taking credit for it.)
Clearly, America has not seen the end of Bill O’Reilly.
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