NEWSMAKERS | Glenn Beck leaving his Fox News show

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Glenn Beck leaving his Fox News show

NEW YORK

Glenn Beck is leaving his Fox News Channel show later this year. The network and Beck’s company, Mercury Radio Arts, announced the departure on Wednesday. Fox and the company said they will work together to create other projects for Fox News television and digital.

Beck became a sensation almost immediately after jumping from HLN to Fox for an afternoon program. Lately his viewership has declined. He had faced an advertiser boycott that limited the amount of companies that wanted to be a part of his show after saying President Barack Obama had a “deep-seated hatred for white people.”

Beck said that he “cannot repay (Fox News chief) Roger (Ailes) for the lessons I’ve learned and will continue to learn from him and I look forward to starting this new phase of our partnership.”

MLK III, Young start black network

ATLANTA

Martin Luther King III and civil rights icon Andrew Young are among the founders of a television network aimed at African-Americans set to launch this fall. Bounce TV will offer programming around the clock, targeting blacks ages 25 to 54 with movies, sports, documentaries, faith-based programs and original programming.

The network has acquired television rights to nearly 400 movies, including classics like “The Wiz” and “Car Wash”; several Spike Lee productions such as “Jungle Fever,” “Mo’ Better Blues” and “Do the Right Thing”; and Denzel Washington headliners such as “The Hurricane.”

US library to save baseball, country tunes

WASHINGTON

The 1908 tune, “Take Me Out to the Ball-game,” that became the anthem for America’s favorite pastime, will be preserved at the Library of Congress, along with 24 other recordings chosen for their cultural significance, the library announced Wednesday.

This year’s selections for the National Recording Registry include Tammy Wynette’s 1968 country song that divided American women with the message, “Stand By Your Man.”

Other selections include the first recording of contemporary stand-up comedy. It was an unauthorized recording of comedian Mort Sahl in 1955.

Yale, Harvard accept ‘Tiger Mother’ child

NEW HAVEN, Conn.

The daughter of the author of a recent memoir on tough Chinese-style parenting that sparked an uproar has been accepted to Yale and Harvard. Yale law professor Amy Chua confirmed through her publisher that her daughter Sophia has been accepted to the two Ivy League schools. She declined further comment.

Chua’s memoir, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” described Eastern-style parenting she used with her two daughters: No sleepovers, no play dates, no TV, no computer games, no grades under A, grueling rote academics and hours of piano and violin practice. The book sparked an online backlash among parents who thought Chua’s methods were extreme.

Horse portrait could fetch $33M at auction

LONDON

Christie’s auction house says it is selling a masterpiece by equestrian painter George Stubbs valued at more than 20 million pounds ($33 million). The 18th-century artist was renowned for his portraits of racehorses. “Gimcrack On Newmarket Heath, With A Trainer, A Stable-lad, And A Jockey” depicts one of the most famous and successful horses of the day.

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