2 Month Anniversary of Zero Advertisers For Glenn Beck In U.K.
Literally hundreds of advertisers are boycotting Glenn Beck’s show. But, did you know…
This Friday, April 9, the broadcast of Glenn Beck’s show in the U.K. will have run without any commercials for two months thanks to your efforts.
The Fox News Channel is broadcast in the U.K, which means Glenn Beck is as well. With the assistance of the StopBeck – UK Effort, participants in the StopBeck Effort reached out and urged advertisers to stop sponsoring Mr. Beck’s vitriol, sexism and preying on racial anxieties. Once aware of the irresponsible indecency they were associating their brands with, advertisers were quick to flee – some of them leaving Fox News as a whole.
Your efforts were so effective that beginning February 9, the U.K. broadcast of Glenn Beck’s show rant without commercials. In other words, a total advertiser blackout for Mr. Beck in the U.K. And, because we’ve made it clear that we’re not going anywhere, it remains that way. Glenn Beck’s lost advertisers at home and abroad are a real consequence caused by Mr. Beck’s willful distortions and irresponsible vitriol. And, in keeping Glenn Beck, Fox must continue to hold its nose and absorb the associated financial losses.
You can learn how to participate in and strengthen the StopBeck effort here.
Many thanks to all those participating in this effort! Your tweets and emails to sponsors do matter.
Shout outs to Color of Change, Media Matters and SEIU for their work in stopping Glenn Beck too.
Onward we go…
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Video of a commercial break for Glenn Beck’s show in the UK compared with another Fox News Channel show broadcast in the UK. You’ll see that Glenn Beck’s show is no longer runs paid advertisements, whereas other Fox News Channel shows in the UK continue to have paid ads:
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about 1 year ago
Check out Taxmaster’s site, asking for input re: Becks ads.
about 1 year ago
Wow, blows me away that they keep beck on…..how many sponsors are left here…..still quite a few, right?
We NEED TO HIT THEM HARDER. TY for taking this on
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about 1 year ago
It appears Fox may have an agenda that’s not in the best interest of our country, to keep him on without ads says something. I heard a rumor that Canada will not allow Fox news into that country at all
about 1 year ago
Keep up the great work you folks are doing. It’s working.
about 1 year ago
Hey
I’m from the UK and just wanted to say what a good effort you are doing.
Beck is nothing here, nobody really knows him and his style is laughable to us. However, the man is a lying monster and anything that shows him up as the Pantomime Dame that he is is deffo worth the effort.
Keep it up.
As an aside – could you add a tag to the post that says either UK or Britain? Just using the England tag is a little annoying to Scottish people like me.
about 1 year ago
I think Hannity’s show’s also now running without paying commercials in the UK too – they have to run something called “Fox Extra”, which are just re-runs of cobbled-together parochial ‘news’ stories which Fox tries to promote as worthy of the viewers’ attention.
Keep up the good work folks!
Bren (from the UK)