What's next for Glenn Beck: 5 theories

The explosive Fox News star is leaving his show. What will he do now?

Now that Glenn Beck and Fox News are parting ways, commentators wonder where the mercurial newsman's career will go next.
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Glenn Beck made a name for himself with his headline-grabbing conspiratorial rants on Fox News, but that phase of his career is coming to an end. Beck confirmed to his viewers on Wednesday that he's ending his daily show on Fox. By way of an explanation, he said, Paul Revere "got off the horse at some point and fought in the revolution and then he went back to silversmithing." So after sounding the alarm on the air for the past two years, Beck says he now has "other things to do." Like what? Here, five possibilities:

1. He will take Glenn Beck Inc. to the next level: Keith Olbermann may be nothing without a network soapbox, says Glynnis MacNicol at Business Insider, but "Beck has an entire media empire waiting for him." He's still got his daily radio show, with its massive audience, along with a fledgling website (The Blaze), and the special programs he'll develop for Fox News. Beck will now "become his own case study in what a new media world might look like once stars become less dependent on traditional cable platforms."

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