Scoop: Trump eyes digital media empire to take on Fox News

[brooklynite]

Source: Axios

President Trump has told friends he wants to start a digital media company to clobber Fox News and undermine the conservative-friendly network, sources tell Axios.

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Here's Trump's plan, according to the source
* There's been lots of speculation about Trump starting a cable channel. But getting carried on cable systems would be expensive and time-consuming.
* Instead, Trump is considering a digital media channel that would stream online, which would be cheaper and quicker to start.
* Trump's digital offering would likely charge a monthly fee to MAGA fans. Many are Fox News viewers, and he'd aim to replace the network — and the $5.99-a-month Fox Nation streaming service, which has an 85% conversation rate from free trials to paid subscribers — as their top destination.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/trump-fox-news-digital-media-competitor-25afddee-144d-4820-8ed4-9eb0ffa42420.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

[CurtEastPoint]

1. and he will get suckers to sign up. And then fade away...

[usaf-vet]

34. Think tRump University. tRump Wine. tRump Steaks. tRump Airlines. tRump Casinos. ALL FAILURES!

NOW .... think of P.T. Barnum

"There is a SUCKER BORN every day and TWO to take them. In this case, there are already FOUR tRumps willing to steal your money And give you SHIT in return.

[DENVERPOPS]

61. Exactly

Just another one of his collosal delusions of grandeur...........

Besides, Trump and his spawn won't have any time to start any business, because they will more than likely be tied up giving depositions and attending endless, non-stop court appearances, and trying to figure out how to get bail money.......

I'm no lawyer, but I think some of the people that are after him will have the ability to freeze his assets....

Trump, Jared and Ivanka will probably be working overtime for the next few months shredding, and collecting all the U.S. intelligence they can, to sell to Putin, Saudis, etc.

He already is about to outgrow his usefulness to the RepubliCONs, Putin, etc. What makes him think they will come to his aid?????

[Cha]

66. trump FAKE potus..

[Iliyah]

2. No body will get paid except for him and his family . .

[iluvtennis]

48. Exactly. nt

[KG]

3. never happen.

[brooklynite]

7. Why do you claim that?

Trump doesn’t just want the money; he wants the public exposure.

[SergeStorms]

37. And his cult will continue to love him...

no matter what he does, and how much it costs them. They don't care about policy, they don't care about ideas, all they care about is the hate Trump "preaches". He could pick up right where Rush Limpballs leaves off when the cancer finally kills him, only on a subscription basis because Trump's message is so important.

[usaf-vet]

39. Streaming is the way to go. My guess is it will eliminate 1/2 to 2/3 of his audience from the get go

This country has SADLY failed its infrastructure. A large portion of the country won't (DOESN'T) have high-speed internet.

Even the areas that do are often held together with duct tape. Good luck being able to afford the monthly fees. $5.99 would only pay for the tRump shit stream.

You would need an internet provider.....

The average advertised package for standalone internet service in the United States is around $50 per month during the initial promotional offer and about $60 per month after the promotional period ends. Jan 17, 2020

You would likely need a cellphone provider with a huge data package so you won't miss one second of his bullshit.

Americans aged 25-64, paid $114 a month on average for cell phone service in 2018, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's a staggering annual cost of $1,368 per person!

Don't forget the smart TV and cellphones with an average cost of....

The statistic shows the average price of smartphones in the United States from 2014 to 2024. The average price of a smartphone in the consumer segment in the United States is forecast to reach 580.27 U.S. dollars in 2020.Oct 6, 2020

If you are a numbers person try this analysis from WIRED.
https://www.wired.com/2011/06/how-much-does-your-data-cost/.

Yes, Donny please go streaming. So just like everything else you have ever touched you will bleed your customers dry then fail and blame someone else.

[GoneOffShore]

49. So, here we are in France - we pay 30euros/month for TV/Internet/Landline

Basic package which includes international calls and plenty of streaming. We've got Netflix which is running about 12€/month.

Paying about 50€/month for 2 mobiles with data - could get that down, but we're dealing with other stuff right now, and it's not important. We still have an American mobile for banking - 20€/month.

Doubt that those kinds of prices are available in the US.

[OriginalGeek]

58. I don't know what those combs are worth in real dollars

but your numbers alone are less than mine

I'm carrying 5 phones though - and cable at two addresses (we pay for my wife's aunt's cable and her cell phone which she keeps turned off and in her purse unless she wants to make a call. Yes, her voicemail box is full lol)

I'm probably close 350 a month all in.

[GoneOffShore]

64. At the present exchange rate I'm paying about 140USD per month

And with some shopping around I could probably get it down to 100USD.

[NCjack]

63. Yep. His base is dying off. And everyday he gets uglier.

Look at his throat -- Georgia feral hogs are better looking. Those shortty hands with fatty fingers -- beautiful Kamala Harris has long hands with slender fingers.

Young people don't want to watch that fossil Trump.

[DeminPennswoods]

4. Trump's greedy enough to go the cheaper digital

option, but his good buddy Chris Ruddy already has a newsmax TV channel that's carried on cable and satellite and will be part of Comcast's basic cable package just as Fox New is. Getting in on newsmax would fit Trump's OPM business model but he's have to share whatever profits are had.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. Go for it, whistledick

You’re the kiss of death for everything you touch.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. While I don't respect Rupert Murdoch, I wouldn't

f*ck with him anyway.

[weissmam]

8. only one issue

This , even done digitally requires lots money , something that Trump doesn't have a lot of

[Mr. Ected]

9. Let's see, 70 million votes @ $100 per voter

That's around 7 billion dollars, if my calculations are correct.

He'll drain em all dry if given the opportunity. Let's give him the opportunity.

It would be like Trump was drowning and grabbed onto FOX and pulled them under the water with him.

[RVN VET71]

17. He won't get $100 from each sucker

But he'll get what's in the cookie jar from many and much, much more from his wealthier loyalists. So say, maybe, $2 billion in all. And figuring the overhead costs, the incidentals, and other stuff that Eric will explain, that would leave about $20,000 for the new "digital empire"!

[Auggie]

52. Think much smaller ... 500k to 1m subscribers

They're watching FOX now because it comes with their cable package or over airwaves. I'd be surprised if the vast majority -- many of whom live on pensions, minimum wage, or pay check-to-paycheck -- would spring for a subscription.

Trump media could offset some expense by selling advertising and lowering the streaming rate. Also valuable to them are e-mails and contact/demographic info. All that can be resold.

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Does it need a lot?

Lots of weirdos have done it, without obvious major backing. Are you saying he doesn't have the money that Alex Jones or Glenn Beck had, and that's the minimum needed?

[Sgent]

22. He could get it

70 million voters at $5 / month with a 1% conversion rate = 40 million a year before advertising. Someone will finance him.

[Lonestarblue]

31. He's already raising money for his fight against voter fraud scam.

That said, many of his voters may be tapped out for awhile. A lot of them are in red states where the virus is raging. I’m sure he can call on a few billionaire buddies like Sheldon Adelson to help out.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Don't they already have spew-mongers like OANN and WND

They will cannibalize their deplorables.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Trump News?

Maybe suffering from overexposure? A better brand than Trump Steaks, Trump University, Trump Vodka?

[NCjack]

62. Maybe some new product, e.g., Tiny Trump Candy Dicks.

[thesquanderer]

12. He literally thinks of a presidential term as a season of a TV show...

Check this quote:

"Fox has changed a lot," Trump said during the most recent interview he has given anywhere, with "Fox & Friends" on Election Day. "Somebody said: What's the biggest difference between this and four years ago? And I say Fox."
"I'm not complaining — I'm just telling people," Trump added. "It's one of the biggest differences this season compared to last."

[C_U_L8R]

13. It will last as long as Meg Whitman's recent media flop.

But if it will siphon off and distract Republican dollars, sure proceed away. Maybe Trump Meats can be your cornerstone advertiser.

[brewens]

15. That has to be driving even Hannity, Ingraham and Carlson crazy. FOX "News" does the best

they can working with Trump, but he makes it almost impossible.

It's like this wine salesman I work with. We went to school together and were friends. I ran the delivery route and did everything I could to help him, but he was an alcohol junkie. He could not be helped.

[33taw]

16. The above 80 group can barely handle a remote.

I can’t wait to see them use a smart tv and pay service.

[BlueWavePsych]

42. Hmmm, streaming in deep rural areas?

[DEbluedude]

18. Please proceed Fuckstick.

Everything he touches dies.

[Roc2020]

19. could work. he is the face of republicans

many fringe and mainstream Republicans would sign up. Trump is a celebrity...he was just a really lousy and awful President.

[tanyev]

20. A slugfest between Fox News and Trump TV?

I'm ready.

[jayschool2013]

21. Pathological liar wants a news channel

Seems like Fox, OANN and WND already have that ground covered. Why not just tell Hannity he's gonna be his new co-host? Or take (Rhymes with "Tucker&quot Carlson's spot while (Rhymes with "Tucker&quot starts his 2024 presidential run.

Crazy gonna crazy, I guess.

[Sherman A1]

23. I think it's a great idea

and hopes he goes for it. I'm sure he will get a following up until the point when it falls flat on it's backside.

[groundloop]

24. Go for it...... just give us our country back.

[rainin]

25. If money is the reason for disbelieving that this has a real chance to succeed

perhaps see it in context of Pompeo's world tour to UAE, Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. Add in trump's call to declassify intelligence. US secrets are worth a lot. Declassifying sources and methods is worth a fortune. The trump family likely has secret bank accounts that look like the debt clock right now...up, up, up.

[mdbl]

26. So Trump is starting a fake, fake news network?

It will be interesting to watch him out-fake Fux noooze. His viewers will be the looniest on the planet. Weird, destructive, lying, racist, homophobes. How pleasant.

[LiberalFighter]

27. So it won't go bankrupt?

[Escurumbele]

55. Just in case, don't buy any stock on trump tv

I give it 99 to one that it WILL go bankrupt...

[PatrickforO]

28. Silly me...and here I had my eye on a federal prison cell... n/t

[Paladin]

29. Great idea, trump. Have at it.

Best thing you've come up with since trump university.

[oldsoftie]

30. I've said this was his plan LONG ago. Its the only way to get big money fast.

Monthly fee, instant cash. Fleece the sheep.

[3825-87867]

32. Maybe he's forgetting those "couple dollars" in outstanding debt?

Of course, Vlad could always be a constant guest and Alex Jones some flunkies from Fox a number of RWNJs from Hollywood and every shady evangelical. All brought to you by the Pillow Man.

But more than likely he'd end up selling it to those he owes money to so they can get rich! Then when the whole shit show fails and those "special investors" realize the money they lost, the height of the East River will rise a few inches!

[yaesu]

33. like the industrialist Thyssen who backed hitler, putting hitler in a position of power,

soon finding out he couldn't control hitler, tried to replace hitler, ends up fleeing Germany. He was also a business partner of Bush Sr's Grandfather

[NCjack]

35. Name of his network? TRUMP*lies ???

[greatbaldeagle]

36. Is he going to broadcast from prison?

He can want to start a media company but he has some legal and financial consequences waiting on him after Jan 20. Lock him up!

[Thekaspervote]

38. Let the games begin! It might tap into fux viewership

Dotard will be busy debasing fux....who knows what good will come of that. Two rats in a ring duking it out

[JohnnyRingo]

40. Can you imagine what a shit show that would be?

How the fuck does one go further right than Hannity and Ingraham without mandatory on air arm bands?
Would the news be delivered by Proud Boys and people with heavy German accents?

Tonight on Rootin' Around With Rudy....

[BlueWavePsych]

41. So this was the plan all along. Of course, its all about the money.

Hopefully Faux News goes bankrupt in the process.

[NoMoreRepugs]

43. Please do it littlehands - it will be the funniest thing EVER.

[benld74]

44. New Digital Empire name - Moscow West

[benld74]

45. New Digital Empire name - Moscow West

[godfree2]

46. Trump's playbook is "Whine Kampf"

[gopiscrap]

67. welcome to DU

[modrepub]

47. Digital Dummies

Most of Trump's support/appeal is from the rural areas of this country. Go ahead and try and start or invest in a streaming service aimed at folks that already have very poor digital service to begin with.

Folks, beware of attempts to spend tax money on bringing rural areas into the digital age. This is what you're going to get. More tax transfers to states and counties that can't support themselves without getting help from the suburban and urban areas. If socialism is broadly defined as getting something with other people's money then it's high time we ask these folks to practice their principles.

[GoneOffShore]

50. Where's he going to get the money? Apart from his sucker followers?

[maxsolomon]

51. He may have said this months ago.

But he's in isolation having a mental crisis now.

His Sr. staff all have Covid, Pence went on vacation, no one in his campaign or remaining staff has the ovaries to confront him, Melanoma is probably at her parent's house with Barron (not that he'd listen to her or that she gives 2 shits).

The future of the Republic is down to Jarvanka...

[Nitram]

53. Knowing Trump, this is his way to get more money from Fox when they hire him.

[Escurumbele]

54. Can he run that from jail?

That will be monotonous, every show will be the same

The show for today: "how unfair that he is in jail, Democrats did it, he has done nothing wrong."
Tune tomorrow when trump will discuss "how unfair that he is in jail, Democrats did it, he has done nothing wrong."
etc., etc.

[Warpy]

56. Yeah, that worked out just fine for Palin and she's purtier than he is.

I don't think he's going to translate well to phone screens. I think we can expect this to go the way of most of his other grandiose ideas, from steaks to airlines. His shtik is too limited and while a hog with a hornet up its ass can be entertaining for a while, it doesn't do well over the long haul.

He'd have been smarter to sign a contract with Newsmax, but he can't stand not being the one in total control.

[efhmc]

57. My memory is sure I have seen this before. Anyone else remember that?

[keithbvadu2]

59. NewsMax and Fox might not go along with this endeavor.

NewsMax and Fox might not go along with this endeavor.

Qanon, Proud Boys, and NRA might join in as mooch-alongs.

Will My Pillow and overpriced 'collectible' gold coins follow?

[keithbvadu2]

60. With Sarah Huck as newscaster showing lots of thigh.

With Sarah Huck as newscaster showing lots of thigh.

LOTS of thigh

[Cha]

65. BIGGER PROPAGANDA LIES Than Fox! BETTER

BRAINWASING Techniques.

Whatever.. Get the Fuck Outta OUR WH.