"Mr. O'Reilly is fully committed to supporting our efforts to improve the environment for all our employees at Fox News".
Following the memo, Fox announced "Tucker Carlson Tonight" will begin airing an hour earlier to fill the time slot vacated byO'Reilly.
The announcement followed growing reports that the corporation headed by Rupert Murdoch meant to sack the veteran host and just hours after the right-wing television personality was photographed shaking hands with Pope Francis in Rome.
Conservative megastar talk show host Bill O'Reilly has been dropped from the Fox News Channel lineup following an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment, 21st Century Fox said Wednesday. Yesterday, an African American woman who worked as a clerical worker in 2008 at Fox News, claimed O'Reilly engaged in a pattern of harassment that lasted for months including making animal noises at her, staring at her cleavage and calling her "hot chocolate".
In his only public statement about the matter, O'Reilly said his fame made him a target of lawsuits and that he settled the claims to spare his children negative publicity.
O'Reilly's departure is the second big blow for conservatives' favorite news network in nine months. His No. 1 cable news show made about $178 million in advertising revenue in 2015. Despite claiming he'd return to his show on April 24, tongues at Fox wagged that the journalist wouldn't actually be back as dozens of advertisers had pulled their commercials from The O'Reilly Factor. Fox News has since settled with former network personality Gretchen Carlson, who sued the company, citing harassment from Ailes.
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She described O'Reilly's behaviour when they returned to the bar afterwards as "hostile". O'Reilly has denied wrongdoing.
Twenty-First Century Fox had tapped the law firm Paul, Weiss Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, which also looked into the allegations against Ailes, to investigate O'Reilly's conduct.
Investors seemed to take the news in stride.
"You better stand up now and figure out what's really happening with this O'Reilly thing or you're gonna lose Fox News", Beck told viewers of the channel during Wednesday's episode of The Glenn Beck Radio Program.
Bill O'Reilly will not return to host The O'Reilly Factor amid accusations of sexual harassment against him, 21st Century Fox has announced.
O'Reilly and President Donald Trump are both "crowd-pleasing showmen who know how to signal to loyalists in their audience that they are not taking themselves quite as seriously as their detractors are", said news consultant Andrew Tyndall. The sources say O'Reilly was very unpopular among staffers compared to colleagues like Sean Hannity. "The cultural issue is a big issue".
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