Last week Fox News’ Glenn Beck took a week off for vacation, and then returned on Monday. In his absence Glenn Beck was hosted each day by Andrew Napolitano, except last Friday when Fox News interrupted Glenn Beck in favor of breaking news coverage of the earthquake and tsunami catastrophe in Japan.

The good news for Beck is that he was able to take some time off from work. The bad news for Beck is that ratings-wise, Fox News did just fine without him. Coming in the wake of the recent New York Times report suggesting Fox News executives might be looking ahead to cable news lineup that does not include Beck once his contract expire at the end of the year, coupled with Beck's soft 2011 ratings, news that Glenn Beck basically drew the same numbers of viewers without Beck as the host probably isn’t good news for him or his agent. http://mediamatters.org/blog/201103160004