Glenn Beck Returning To TV With Dish Network Deal

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Source: Huffington Post

Glenn Beck is returning to television after a little over a year of being away from it. Beck's company announced Wednesday that it has signed a deal with Dish Network, the satellite operator, to bring his online television network, TheBlazeTV, to the airwaves. The move completes a kind of circle for Beck, who left his Fox News show in June of 2011.

The New York Times was the first to report the deal. The channel will launch at 5 PM on Wednesday, when Beck's eponymous program airs. In a blog post, Chris Balfe, CEO of The Blaze, signaled that the Dish deal will be followed by others, on cable and on satellite. He wrote that a year of Web TV has allowed the company to take the steps needed to return to the terrestrial platform:

But now, a year later, everything has changed. Our subscribers' enthusiasm and support has allowed us to make the necessary investments in programming and infrastructure, and we're now in a position to launch a cable and satellite channel without losing control. We have the best staff, the best talent, world-class facilities and great distribution partners lined up, and we've done it all while ensuring that we answer to no one except our own audience.

The big question, of course, is whether Beck can replicate the heights of influence he reached with Fox News. He told the Times that, across his various platforms, he is being seen and heard by more people than ever before. More than 300,000 people had subscribed to his Web network as of March, and Beck's radio show is still one of the biggest in the nation. But he has not been able to penetrate popular discourse in the same way he did when he had millions of Fox News viewers -- as well as eagle-eyed "Daily Show" staffers -- watching his every move.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/glenn-beck-dish-network-tv_n_1876736.html

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Dish Network. Another company who's services will not be required in our household.

[still_one]

1. I am glad I left Dish for Direct TV. I was getting tired of losing programs due to Charlie's lack

of negotiation skills, and the customer always got the short end, but this just makes me even more relieved I am not with Dish anymore

[Bandit]

22. I left Dish a couple of years ago when I found out they were the only Blue Chip Stock

Company to still be advertising on the Glen beck Show.. I told them that was the reason I was leaving and have not regretted that decision one bit..Direct TV seems to be just fine and has more channels to boot.

[BlueToTheBone]

25. Isn't Direct a Murdock enterprise?

[still_one]

26. Not for years. Liberty media, Malone

[BlueToTheBone]

27. Thanks. That's why I left it

and now I'll go back.

[still_one]

29. However, I do not know how friendly Malone is to progressive causes

[BlueToTheBone]

30. He didn't contract with Beckestan!

So, that's a good start...and I miss AMC. But have to check out all the rest of what they offer...I think I can get my internet through them...can't with dish.

[cascadiance]

32. Liberty media is also after a monopoly of satellite communications with satellite radio too...

They are making the same play to control the now merged Sirius/XM satellite radio service that Murdoch and News Corp tried to do some years back.

If they can push a very now STUPIDLY RUN Dish Network out of business the risk is that Liberty will have monopoly control over all satellite media services (radio and television) and then perhaps things like FSTV, LINK TV, Sirius Left, etc. will get dropped when there is no competition in this space, and that will take away any alternatives in areas where Clear Channel and right wing radio have over the air monopolies too. That to me sounds like a scary time ahead if we're not careful.

Which makes me hate the absolutely STUPID management at Dish Network that is alienating the very customer base that would be drawn to them if they programmed their service more intelligently.

[still_one]

33. Actually direct is now spun off from liberty, but everything you sails is correct

[libinnyandia]

2. It makes me want to cry when I think of all the brain cells destroyed because of people listening

to or watching Glenn Beck.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Makes me think of all the fun Jon Stewart is gonna have again.

His Glenn Beck take offs were glorious to behold.

[libinnyandia]

10. That's the up side to Glenn Beck being back on tv.

[nightscanner59]

18. probably near as many as from Lush Rimbaugh exposure.

Jon Stewart called Rush's show "Rush Limbaugh's midafternoon mouth dump". Sorry to hear his cohort is getting back on the loudspeaker.

[Blue_Tires]

3. If only I knew in high school that screaming nonsense in public could be so profitable

[mac56]

4. +1000

[GeorgeGist]

6. I predict TheBlaze ...

will go down in flames.

[magic59]

7. This is great!

I don't subscribe to dish so I will never have to look at that dumb ass again.
Dish sucks!

[pasto76]

8. Dish doesnt carry AMC

which is more than enough reason not to use them

[Kablooie]

9. Glen Beck vs Walter White, Don Draper and Zombies.

Glen Beck wins, natch.

[SoapBox]

11. WTF? Boycott time.

OMG

Time to begin a campaign of "comment" to DISH.

I don't FUCK'N want to pay for this CRAP, DISH. You want us to pay extra just to get Boomerang...ya better
not be including this in the "basic" package.

ANOTHER outrage!

[alp227]

13. Boomerang? Classic toons are usually available on dvd.

For those who watch Free Speech TV (which includes Democracy Now and Thom Hartmann) via Dish, if you wish to drop Dish over Glenn Beck, FSTV streams online at freespeech.org.

This thread sounds like the Parents Television Council complaining about paying for MTV and FX in the basic cable bill.

[OvariesforObama]

12. Well that solves it...

Was leaning towards making a switch to dish... not going to happen now! It boggles the mind to think that there are sooooo many people that hang on his every word!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

14. DISH TV sucks

Don't know anyone who's had them that likes them. So glad I have DirectTV.

[liberal N proud]

15. I guess that settles it, we will not be getting Dish

We are considering getting rid of Cable for satellite. Dish is out if they are dealing with the devil.

[eggplant]

16. I love Dish, but I called and complained about this gasbag eating my bandwidth. You should too!

They are only carrying GBTV on the Top250 and higher packages (or $5/mo ala carte!), so I'm not getting it, but is reasonable to complain to them anyway, since broadcasting his channel over the sats consumes bandwidth that could be going to higher quality broadcasts of the channels that I do get.

I encourage all other Dish subscribers to call (800-333-DISH) and complain about them carrying the channel. Make sure they pass the information up to their supervisor, and to the people in charge of programming.

[marble falls]

17. When is Kieth Olbermann coming back? The elections seem screwy without him.....

How did he not pick up a convention gig?

[awoke_in_2003]

19. This is coming from a big Keith fan...

Yes, when he was great he was great. But he has self-destructed every job he has had. No one will touch him anymore. It is sad, but he did it to himself.

[marble falls]

20. Maybe he won't be getting his own show but there is a place for him on the Sunday news ....

shows. A place as a special correspondent for the debates. How about webcasting? He's got an audience. The first time I heard him call Cheney a liar was priceless and I still run it in my mind's youtube.

[Crowman1979]

21. Already boycotted before I had to. I bought a digital antenna!

[klook]

23. He'll wear out a couple of blackboards during Obama's 2nd term. (n/t)

[CubicleGuy]

24. Does Dish know what they're doing?

First they take away AMC-TV, then they provide Beck instead.

They must be trying to alienate all of the smart viewers.

[cascadiance]

31. I got double slapped last week, when they also dropped Big Ten Network too this weekend...

Swapping AMC and Big Ten Network for Pac 12 Network and Glen Beck as an Iowa grad? That slap is too big for me even if they are one of the only companies in satellite broadcasting of radio and television that isn't affiliated with Liberty Communications. Moving to Comcast around here now, shortly which is going to be a pain in the butt!

BTW, if any of you have a lot of content like Thom Hartmann shows on their EHD (external hard disks) and don't want to lose them even if they keep their Dish Network receiver, your EHD's (external hard disks) will be made useless then. Get everything consolidated on to your Dish receiver (if you want to just keep the receiver to have that content) before dropping them if you want to continue to access that content or stay on them minimally until you can get that content off.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

28. Doesn't Dish do those Charlie Chat shows?

[Erose999]

34. Dish Network is a sinking ship. I bet he's also working on deals with Compuserve and AOL dial up.