{"id":1917597,"date":"2023-04-21T08:41:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-a-sad-day-dan-bongino-exits-fox-news-effective-immediately\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T08:42:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:42:12","slug":"its-a-sad-day-dan-bongino-exits-fox-news-effective-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-a-sad-day-dan-bongino-exits-fox-news-effective-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s A Sad Day\u2019: Dan Bongino Exits Fox News, Effective Immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-a-sad-day-dan-bongino-exits-fox-news-effective-immediately%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1917597&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Nationally syndicated radio and podcast host <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/dan-bongino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Bongino<\/a> confirmed on Thursday that he had parted ways with Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Bongino, a former New York City police officer and U.S. Secret Service agent, made the announcement on his <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v2jeefl-some-important-personal-news-ep.-1995-04202023.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast<\/a> Thursday, explaining that the network had been good to him \u2014 and good for him \u2014 over the last decade, but that recent contract negotiations had simply come up short.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his exit, Bongino hosted a weekly Saturday evening show on the flagship network called \u201cUnfiltered,\u201d and his \u201cCanceled in the USA\u201d ran on the network\u2019s subscription-based Fox Nation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: Fox News parts ways with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dbongino?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dbongino<\/a> \u2014 \u201cWe thank Dan for his contributions and wish him success in his future endeavors.\u201d <br \/>Fox News will air <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LawrenceBJones3?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LawrenceBJones3<\/a> in place of Bongino on Saturdays. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WFXVz2TeEx\">https:\/\/t.co\/WFXVz2TeEx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TVNewsNow\/status\/1649067980926468101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe show ending last week was tough. It\u2019s not some big conspiracy theory, I promise you. There\u2019s no acrimony,\u201d Bongino said. \u201cWe just couldn\u2019t come to terms on an extension. That\u2019s really it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really enjoyed myself there. They were good for me for ten years,\u201d he continued, adding, \u201cIt\u2019s a sad day. They did give me the opportunity to do one last show, I don\u2019t want you to think they showed me the door. That\u2019s on me, not on them, but I thought it was best to go this way for now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News also provided a statement, saying, \u201cWe thank Dan for his contributions and wish him success in his future endeavors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>As Forbes noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/markjoyella\/2023\/04\/20\/dan-bongino-out-at-fox-news\/?dg&#038;sh=144b39504b59\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> on the popular host\u2019s exit, ratings were not likely the cause for the split \u2013 Bongino\u2019s Saturday show regularly topped the ratings, taking the top spot in prime time for the first quarter of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were the number one show 90 percent of the time. We had a great team,\u201d Bongino agreed, and while he acknowledged that the timing was not optimal, he assured his audience that his departure was solely the result of failed contract negotiations and not because of the lawsuit that Fox News just settled with Dominion Voting Systems.<\/p>\n<p>In place of \u201cUnfiltered,\u201d Fox News will air \u201cLawrence Jones Cross Country\u201d this coming Saturday \u2014 and the network plans to announce a permanent replacement in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationally syndicated radio and podcast host Dan Bongino confirmed on Thursday that he had parted ways with Fox News. Bongino, a former New York City police officer and U.S. Secret Service agent, made the announcement on his podcast Thursday, explaining that the network had been good to him \u2014 and good for him \u2014 over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1917598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5458,7020,7660,6051,14072,7690,6550,4133,18713],"class_list":["post-1917597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-bongino","tag-dan","tag-day","tag-effective","tag-exits","tag-fox","tag-its","tag-news","tag-sad"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}