Eric Bolling: My Show Beats Fox News
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Disgraced former Fox News Eric Bolling host says he’s loving his life in local TV and working for Sinclair.
Bolling left Fox News after insiders say he was sending lewd texts to some of his co-workers.
Sinclair was only too happy to hire him, give him Sunday show on the Sinclair stations.
He talked to Mediaite and said that his show is killing the cable news channels and he is surprised that local TV had such reach.
Mediaite: You’re over 30 weeks into your new show, what are some of your thoughts on America This Week so far?
Bolling: I never realized how big local news broadcast is, not cable. The reach is massive. On any given week, in those eyeballs-to-eyeballs on Nielsen Data, we’ll do one and a half to two times Fox in total eyeballs, two times Fox and CNN on the demo, and total households like 1.7 times. Because it’s broadcast and because we’re 93 markets, 191 stations, we have massive reach. I think the administration has picked it up because I’ve interviewed Trump twice in three weeks, Stephanie Grisham gave me the first interview — everyone was jonesing for an interview to find out who the new press secretary was going to be and she gave it to me, which ruffled some feathers. My goal was to out-do, out-guest, out-perform, out-entertain, out-host Fox News Sunday and Meet the Press. I wanted us to be the best Sunday talk show on the market. I’ll tell you, every week, no one beats our guests. The week Steve Bannon was testifying against Roger Stone, I had them both on the same show. David Smith, who is the founder and chairman of Sinclair, he came to me when I was doing town halls for him because the opioid crisis and my son — that’s how this evolved. He set up 15 town halls. First one, I had Melania Trump there, and that just made me realize I had access to high profile guests. When I was doing that … he said, “Let’s do a weekly talk show,” but it had to be on my terms. I want all the editorial on it. He gave me that. Not only did he give me that, he just built an insanely brand new, massive studio in the ABC studios in Arlington, Virginia.
By the way, while Bolling gushes over his brand new, massive studio that Sinclair just built him, a number of Sinclair staffers tell FTVLive that they have gone a very longtime without getting a raise.
Maybe Bolling can help those people out.
Or at least send them a text.
Read the full interview at Mediaite
