I believe this is part of the reason that Hannity has reconnected with Glenn Beck. O'Reilly has also made it back into the public eye. Levin is on Fox. Rush has been on Hannity not very long ago.
I feel we will be seeing all of them and others leave their respective companies.
Beck (Blaze TV) and O'Reilly (O'Reilly.com)and Levin (Levin TV) and Rush already have an infrastructure built to accomplish starting a new network.
No more strings attached.