By Kevin McCauley
Glenn Beck is leaving his daily Fox News Channel program by the end of year, opting to develop other on-air and online programming for the News Corp property.
"Glenn Beck" has been a staple of Fox News since its early 2009 launch.
Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts, Beck's production company, released a statement today to announce that Beck "intends to transition off of his daily program, the third highest rated in all cable news, later this year."
Roger Ailes, CEO of Fox News, lauded Beck as a "powerful communicator, a creative entrepreneur and a true success by anybody's standards."
In turn, Beck believes "America owes a lot to Roger Ailes and Fox News." He "cannot repay Roger for the lessons I've learned."
Joel Cheatwood, senior VP/development at Fox News, is joining Mercury on April 24 to manage the new partnership.
Fox News claims Beck's program averaged more than 2.2M total viewers since it debuted 27 months ago.
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