Roger Ailes Wiki
Roger Ailes born Roger Eugene Ailes was an American television executive and media consultant. Rogers was the Chairman and CEO of Fox News and Fox Television Stations, from which he resigned in July 2016. Ailes was a media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush as well as Rudy Giuliani’s first mayoral campaign. In 2016, after resigning from Fox News due to allegations of sexual misconduct, he became an adviser to the Donald Trump campaign, where he assisted with debate preparation.
Roger Ailes Age
Roger Ailes was born on May 15, 1940 and met his death on May 18, 2017 at the age of 77.
Roger Ailes Early television
Ailes’ career in television began in Cleveland and Philadelphia, where he started as Production Assistant in the year 1961, moving to a producer in 1965 then later to Executive Producer in 1967 for KYW-TV,a then-locally produced talk-variety show, The Mike Douglas Show. He continued as Executive Producer for the show when it was syndicated nationally, and in 1967 and 1968 he won Emmy Awards for it.
Roger Ailes Richard Nixon
In 1967, Ailes had a spirited discussion about television in politics with one of the show’s guests, Richard Nixon, who took the view that television was a gimmick.Later, Nixon called on Ailes to serve as his Executive Producer for television. Nixon’s successful presidential campaign was Ailes’s first venture into the political spotlight.His pioneering work in framing national campaign issues, capitalizing on the race-based Southern Strategy and making the stiff Nixon more likable and accessible to voters was later chronicled in The Selling of the President 1968 by Joe McGinniss.
Roger Ailes Fox News
In October 7th; Ailes was tapped by Rupert Murdoch in 1996 to become the CEO of Fox News. After the departure of Lachlan Murdoch from News Corporation, Ailes was named Chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group on August 15, 2005. Following his newest assignment, one of his first acts was canceling A Current Affair in September 2005 and replacing it with a new Geraldo Rivera show, Geraldo at Large, which debuted on Halloween, 2005. Rivera’s show drew about the same ratings as A Current Affair in January 2007.
Ailes hired former CBS executive Dennis Swanson in October 2005 to be president of the Fox Television Stations Group. Additionally, there were changes in affiliates’ news programs with the standardization of Fox News Channel-like graphics, redesigned studios, news-format changes, and the announcement of a new morning television show called The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet to be produced by Fox News Channel.
In October 2012, his contract with the network was renewed for four years, through 2016. If completed, he would have served as head of Fox News Channel for 20 years.
Roger Ailes Salary
Salary terms were not made public, although his earnings for the 2012 fiscal year were a reported $21 million inclusive of bonuses. In addition to heading Fox News and chairing Fox Television Stations, Ailes also chaired 20th Television, MyNetworkTV and Fox Business Network.
Roger Ailes Wife
Ailes was married three times; his first two marriages did not go so well. They both ended in a divorce.
On February 14, 1998, Ailes married his third wife Elizabeth Tilson. Formerly a television executive, she was the owner and publisher of local New York state newspapers The Putnam County News & Recorder and The Putnam County Courier. He had one son, named Zachary, with Elizabeth.
Roger Ailes Residence
The family resided in Garrison, New York, on a hilltop parcel in a home constructed of Adirondack river stone across the Hudson River from United States Military Academy at West Point.
Ailes also had residences in Cresskill, New Jersey, and Palm Beach, Florida.
Roger Ailes ACI Senior Development Corp
Ailes and his wife Elizabeth, through their charity, ACI Senior Development Corp., promised $500,000 toward the completion of a senior center in Cold Spring, Putnam County, New York. Local opposition to Ailes’ participation in the project arose after publication of the sexual harassment accusations against him and in response to a Journal News report about previously undisclosed conditions attached to the proposed gift. Under those conditions, ACI would act as general contractor for the project with no obligation to conduct competitive bidding before awarding construction management and other subcontracts.
Further, ACI was excused from any obligation to pay prevailing wages to workers on the project, workers and subcontractors would have no recourse against ACI in case of payment disputes and ACI would deliver its work without warranty. After extensive public objection to Ailes’ participation at an August 2, 2016, public hearing, the Putnam County Legislature suspended adoption of the proposed charitable donation agreement with ACI. The next day Ailes withdrew the gift.
Roger Ailes Book
Roger Ailes Book ‘Roger Ailes: Off Camera’, He frankly, and presciently, talked about the efficacy of appealing to an audience’s emotions, staying on offense and embracing television’s love of brevity, speed and colorful language. “Whether we think it’s a good thing or not,” he wrote, we live in a “headline society now,” and “you have to be punchy and graphic in your conversation”
Roger Ailes Donald Trump
n 2016, after he left Fox News, he became an adviser to the Donald Trump campaign, where he assisted with debate preparation and adviced trump ahead of the presidential elections.
Roger Ailes Jewish Claims
Ailes was criticized for referring to executives of the public radio network NPR as “Nazis” for firing a news analyst, Juan Williams, after Williams had made remarks considered by NPR to be offensive. Ailes apologized to a Jewish group, but not to NPR, for using the expression, writing to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL): “I was of course ad-libbing and should not have chosen that word, but I was angry at the time because of NPR’s willingness to censor Juan Williams for not being liberal enough … My now considered opinion ‘nasty, inflexible bigot’ would have worked better.”
Roger Ailes Death
Ailes suffered from hemophilia, a medical condition in which the body is impaired in its ability to produce blood clots, which are required to reduce bleeding.
On May 10th, He fell and hit his head at his Palm Beach, Florida home. He died a week later on May 18, 2017, just 3 days after his 77th birthday.The Palm Beach County Medical Examiner attributed his death to a subdural hematoma, aggravated by hemophilia. His wife, Elizabeth, announced his death in a statement on the Drudge Report: “I am profoundly sad and heartbroken to report that my husband, Roger Ailes, passed away this morning”.
In a 2013 book excerpt from ‘Roger Ailes: Off Camera’, Ailes spoke about facing death, saying, “Because of my hemophilia, I’ve been prepared to face death all of my life. When it comes, I’ll be fine, calm. I’ll miss life, though. Especially my family
He died on May 18, 2017, at the age of 77, after suffering a subdural hematoma, which was aggravated by his hemophilia.