Controversial pundit Glenn Beck has announced that he is merging his web-television network’s “GBTV” with his website TheBlaze.com to create TheBlaze TV and start a revolution.
In a lengthy interview with CNN on the change, he says the original name never sat well with him and was a little “egocentric”.
Beck believes that there’s a media revolution coming and he would well be correct. Just two years ago he was a fixed anchor in Fox and now he’s heading up a multi-media news business.
He told CNN “Change is not bad…We are on the threshold of something I think is as powerful as the Industrial Revolution was, except this one will happen in a very short period of time…Whether we’re the ones to [revolutionize media] or we’re just the ones who happen to be the first on the scene, I don’t know. But we’re moving forward because the media revolution has begun.”
This revolution seems to be suiting Beck and his fans. Earlier this year he signed up with a five year $100 million contract with his “Glenn Beck Program”, listened to by 10 million people. He’s also been named as number 23 on Forbes 100 Most Powerful Celebrities with a reported $80 million in earnings.
Here’s Beck’s merger announcement on TheBlaze website:
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.fitzcarraldo | Jun 21, 2012, 08:16 AM EDT
Whatever happened to Glenn Beck University?
EphraimKibbey | Jun 21, 2012, 01:18 AM EDT
Does this mean no one is watching the"GlennBeckTV" channel? What a shame!
Cyn | Jun 20, 2012, 09:53 PM EDT
Glenn Beck is a media whore. He spouts hate and ignorance as if it were fact. He is a dangerous idiot. This is the man who's tears are the product of smearing Vicks Vaporub in his own eyes. A chest liniment, really. Why is he still getting attention?
seanomelb | Jun 20, 2012, 07:30 PM EDT
Bigoted Beck a legend in his own lunchtime.
rugbyplayer | Jun 20, 2012, 11:56 AM EDT
Glenn Beck, another Far Right and well-funded nobody who just proves that an ignorant and bigoted American audience that endorses hate speech still exists in the USA.