Dylan Ratigan Announces He’s Out as Host at MSNBC
- Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:53am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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The late afternoon lineup of MSNBC is losing one of its liberal voices. Dylan Ratigan has announced he is leaving network after three years.
“Think of it like ending a Broadway play,” Ratigan told the New York Times.
With Ratigan’s departure, ardent anti-conservative Martin Bashir will be moving from 3 pm ET to Ratigan’s spot of 4 pm ET. The changes will take effect June 25 with Ratigan’s last day being June 22.
According to Ratigan, he’s leaving to expand on the elements he has been preaching on his show, and includes plans to “meet with tons of people, learn from tons of people, and then figure out a way to take the narrative I’ve been talking about, and show the most effective ways to resolve it.”
He explained more in a blog post on the Huffington Post:
I left a 15 year career in financial journalism amid the crisis of 2008. I did this to join the traditional cable news ranks with a clear goal of revealing the ruthless truth about our biggest problems and telling the inspiring stories of those who are resolving them despite all odds.
After three years at MSNBC, two national roadshows and one book, (and a couple of rants) my objections to our current political process and our dominance-at-all-costs culture that gives us all less, while we pay more is well documented.
According to the Times, this has been months in the making:
Mr. Ratigan’s current contract expires this month. He was unusually highly paid by MSNBC daytime anchor standards — about $1 million a year, according to several staff members, who insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the matter. Mr. Ratigan said there was no negotiation about a new contract because he told the company three months ago that he was planning to leave. He released his television agent in January, he added.
“Once you’ve said your piece, you can either keep saying it — and then it’s a job, good job, pays well, everybody knows your name, it’s great — or you can decide what you’re going to do about it,” Ratigan said. “And the answer is, I don’t know. But I do know, in order to figure it out, I have to dismount.”
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Comments (93)
pecosval
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 12:28pmBye,bye Dylan…don”t let the door hit you in the arse on the way out. Take Rachel, Chris and Ed and Al with you!
Report Post »RabidPatriot
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:02pmAfter years of service, he is gone before anyone knew he was here in the first place.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 4:59pmDylan who???
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 5:20pmDeck Chairs / Titanic
Report Post »darkknight91
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:59pmWho?
Report Post »deano24
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:20pm@pecosval
Report Post »You forgot martin bashir too.
aChameleon
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:49pmLooks like he has finally seen the writing on the wall. Took you long enough dylan.
Report Post »db321
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:10pmI can’t understand why Soros wants to go after Fox News so badly!
Report Post »Cable News Ratings – Apr 2012
1. The O’Reilly Factor – Fox News — 2.87 million total viewers
2. Hannity – Fox News — 2.075 million total viewers
3. Special Report with Bret Baier – Fox News — 1.778 million total viewers
4. On the Record with Greta van Susteren – Fox News — 1.722 million total viewers
5. Fox Report with Shepard Smith – Fox News — 1.688 million total viewers
6. The Five – Fox News — 1.674 million total viewers
7. America’s Newsroom – Fox News — 1.272 million total viewers
8. Your World with Neil Cavuto – Fox News — 1.252 million total viewers
9. O’Reilly Factor (11PM) – Fox News — 1.22 million total viewers
10. America Live – Fox News — 1.191 million total viewers
11. Studio B – Fox News — 1.113 million total viewers
12. Fox & Friends – Fox News — 1.082 million total viewers
13. Happening Now – Fox News — 1.029 million total viewers
14. The Rachel Maddow Show – MSNBC — 985,000 total viewers
15. The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell – MSNBC — 931,000 total viewers
16. The Ed Show – MSNBC — 875,000 total viewers
17. Hardball with Chris Matthews – MSNBC — 744,000 total viewers
18. PoliticsNation – MSNBC — 712,000 total viewers
19. Piers Morgan Tonight – CNN — 567,000 total viewers
20. The Situation Room – CNN — 548,000
RightAmerican
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:39pmMaybe he will go to Current TV (what ever that is) with Joy Behar!
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 6:16am“Think of it like ending a Broadway play,” Ratigan told the New York Times.
No, think of it more like not being worthy of new contract negotiations for $1 Million a year, while Glenn Beck just got a new contract for $20 Million a year. WOW!!! Shows the message of conservatism is worthwhile and liberalism/socialism is a losing battle of wing nuts.
Report Post »b.mclane
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 10:13amI am extremely concerned over the direction the Conservative Party is going. First, Paulbot Purists who are willing to go down with the ship to prove how devoted they are now people commenting on the Dylan Ratigan departure but NEVER have seen his show or know who he is? He’s the ONLY rational person on that network. Is practical about the Govt involvement in the banking collapse yet does not let the “Greedy Bastards” unscrupulous bankers ( name of his book) off the hook. Rails against Govt bureaucracy and overspending. Is on a soap box now stop about redundant Govt Programs and when it was announce 49.2% of all US households get a Govt check he was beyond incensed. At one time Glenn Beck was on CNN you know. He quit also to go on to more common grounds. Just because Ratigan is on MSNBC does not mean he too has a thrill running up his leg. Many Libs NEVER listen to Rush Limbaugh yet don’t like him. Now I see that sort of factless arrogance is also on the Conservative side.
Report Post »Todd P
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:50amI never watch MSNBC, so I don’t know who he is nor care where he is going.
ROMNEY 2012
Report Post »Solzhenitsin
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 1:03pmMy thoughts exactly.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 1:14pmHe was obviously fired.
He must have been losing huge numbers of advertisers, and his message was irritating to the majority of working Americans.
Hey JZS, That’s capitalism folks.
Embrace it.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 4:57pmDaniel who??
OMG Nov 6, 2012
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:31amWhy not give that slot to SE Cupp now?…..she’s employed by MSNBC.
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 1:26pmShe is to conservative.
Report Post »tnchick
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:43pmWon’t work. She’s sane.
Report Post »Just in time
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:17amHe will probably be replaced by Jesse Jackson. This is how Al Sharpton got to be a commentator on MSNBC.
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 1:25pmWho watch’s MSNBC anyway. It is not like it is real news.
Report Post »semihardrock
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:14amOne of the captains does not want to go down with the ship. I am POSITIVE that MSLSD will be giving more and more talking points directly from the Whitehouse which Ratigan did NOT really do although he is a liberal.
He follows the money and has for many years…..not the ideology…like on NBC, aka the Chavez Channel.
Report Post »routnom23
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:12amWho?
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:35ampffft…I dunno.
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:16am“and then it’s a job, good job, pays well, everybody knows your name, it’s great…”
Glad this wasn’t a final jeopardy question. Never heard of this guy.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:56amWho is Dylan Ratigan?
Report Post »Billy in DC
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:10amWasn‘t he a folk singer from the 60’s? Talk about blowing in the wind.
Report Post »regmgr
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:18amBy the way WHO CARES! What were is ratings? Probabaly not good enough for MSNBC to want to talk him out of leaving. So long to a Socialist we won’t miss.
Report Post »ddg7
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:04amThis is about as news worthy as an in-grown hair!
Report Post »TimO_Florida
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:45amQue up “Another One Bites The Dust”.
By the time Obummer walks out the White House door on Jan 20th, there won’t be anyone left at MSNBC except some 20-something interns from the Liberal Arts drum circles….
Report Post »crazyoz
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:32amDid he leave or was he squeezed out to make room for more ratical Dirt Bags that will promote the anti Christian agended?.
Report Post »Duchylivin
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:50amRatigan was the only MSNBC host I ever repsected. He was a vocal critic of the recent “borrow and spend” financial policies of both parties. He believed that government spending was sucking the life out of the economy. Politically he was left of center, but his financial opinions were closer to Ron Paul and his specials on government waste were akin Senator Tom Colburn’s.
Whether I agreed or not he did his own research, reached his own conclusions and voiced his opinions based upon that.
But that makes him a poor fit now, as MSNBC goes into full propaganda mode for the election, And both parties probably knew it.
IMHO, if all MSNBC hosts were a little more like Ratigan they would be doing better in the polls.
I wish him well in the future and I hope he continues his drift towards individual liberty. I suspect that is likely when he leaves the echo chamber.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:54amI also respected Dylan Ratigan. I watched many of his hard hitting reports and CEO interviews when he was on Bloomberg Business News before he went to MSNBC. I personally lost track of him because I NEVER watch anything on MSNBC (More S*** from Nothing But Communism). Personally, I don’t blame him for leaving. He was probably told that he WILL follow the Communist agenda of MSNBC or be TERMINATED. As a left leaning libertarian, this rubbed him wrong. I bet that MSNBC is glad to replace him with a more Communistically oriented talking head. He will be replaced by a radical left pinhead which fits MSNBC’s agenda to a tee.
I wish him the best in his new endeavors.
Report Post »f2345ranky
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:23amI totally agree. He’s the only person that I would occasionally watch on MSNBC
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:40amWho?
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:59amSame here. But from the posts I have read it sounds like he may belong on a more respected platform, rather than MSNBC. Perhaps the kool-aid has no effect on him.
It’s probably a good thing for him whoever he is.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 4:56pm@Meyvn
I just finished watching Dylan Ratigan explain his leaving on MSNBC. He was fired. His whole staff was fired too (about 5 or 6 people). No one had a clue this was happening and they all found out yesterday. None of them knows where they are going next including Dylan. This is what I think happened;
Dylan is a progressive but not the hard core Sociocommiearxist like the rest of MSNBC. He doesn’t do the “Lean Forward” commercials and probably refused to “get with the program” now that the elections are coming up. They probably told him to act more like Matthews, Maddow, Schultz and Sharpton and he refused. I heard it his voice; he was fired. Martin Bashir, a true Marxist, is replacing him and another Sociocommiearxist will replace Bashir.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 4:59pmEdit;
…in his voice.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:37amWell, looks like this will effect his viewing audience of about 11 people in the entire United States…..
Report Post »Daniel4
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:31amDylan who???
The only Ratigan I knew of was the villain in Disney‘s ’The Great Mouse Detective’.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:26amJust another DEMOCRAT Keynseian financial dope that can‘t figure out that you can’t SPEND MORE than you can steal from the private sector.
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:24amWho’s Dylan Ratigan? I’ve seriously never heard of this guy before I read this story.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 5:03pmMe neither, I don’t think we missed much.
Report Post »essence428
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:23amWho? I have no idea who this person is…guess that’s what I get for not listening to the trash on that station…
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:23amWell, more RATS are jumping ship at BSNBC. Wonder if we will ever hear of this near unknown again. It’s odd, I often force myself to check BSNBC during commercials on whatever I am watching at that time, and he does not even look familiar. Ugh, more Bashir though?
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:34amBet he ends up on algore tv….seems to be where the pmsnbc losers end up
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:12amKAYDEEBEAU, I had thought that at first after reading his BS reason. But, isn‘t Gore’s TV net going belly up?
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:11amMaybe he desided to move to France… He’ll like it there, I’m sure.
Report Post »huey6367
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:08amDoes anyone really care? I mean it is MSNBC for God’s sake.
Report Post »RecoveringRepublican
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:02amComparing MSNBC to a Broadway Play is like comparing the Crucifixion to Wood Shop.
Report Post »damnedifwedont
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:27pmMade me LOL! But…have you ever listened to Bashir?
Report Post »Partyof1
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:02amI’m sure it gets tiresome when you preach to the brain dead and lazey and have such a small audience also.
Report Post »BlazeGlory
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:02amWell, it appears that I will not be watching Bashir at his new 4pm ET spot as opposed to not having watched him in his 3pm ET spot.
Report Post »Susie
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:02amRatigan. Nice name. How’s it pronounced ? Rat again ?
Report Post »Sorry but I’ve never heard of him.
Apparently, when an MNSBC host falls, there’s no one to hear the crash.