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In a move that, frankly, kinda sucks from the never-too-much-to-write-about perspective, conservative yakker Glenn Beck's Irving-based TV station is shutting down, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Blaze as Beck's media and TV empire is known went on the air in 2012, two years after The Blaze's web launch.
The media firm behind The Blaze, Blaze Media, will continue to offer its paid video-on-demand service and podcasts. Beck's radio show will remain on the air, as well.
"Yes, we've sent notices of non-renewal to our cable partners, whose support we've appreciated over the years," Blaze Media CEO Tyler Cardon told The Hollywood Reporter. "Given our record growth this year on our direct-to-consumer SVOD business, podcasts, various web properties and other digital distribution channels, it has become a conflict to continue programming a traditional, legacy cable channel."
Beck set up shop at Mercury Studios, the entertainment complex formerly know as the Studios at Las Colinas, shortly after his August 2010 "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial. When he left Fox News in June 2011 his website and network became the official home of Beck's rambling, crying and, in 2018, conversion to Trumpism.
Read more: https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/glenn-becks-tv-station-the-blaze-set-to-go-off-the-air-11799158
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(6,133 posts)It began with Rush. It was everything Democrats did is bad. It was Rush telling the right that this is is how liberals think.
He was always wrong but, it did not matter, because it was brainwash for decades.
Thats why we are here. I lived it. We end up with Trump, the worst person in our country.