Conservative media companies TheBlaze and CRTV are merging to create a new right-leaning entity called Blaze Media, which says it will reach 165 million people across platforms.
Glenn Beck founded TheBlaze in 2011 after high-profile runs on Fox News and CNN. The company’s main network has secured distribution on…
Betsy Morgan, Brett Bouttier and Jeff Berman, three executives with experience in media and technology, launched a private equity-backed holding company to acquire and grow consumer businesses.
Magnet Companies will look to acquire and build disruptive companies in the consumer demand space. They also will look for…
Conservative media mogul Glenn Beck has laid off more than 20% of staff at TheBlaze, his right-wing news organization, and the Mercury Radio Arts, his production company. The cuts were announced Thursday by Beck in an op-ed on TheBlaze.com. The company’s total payroll once reached approximately 300, but cuts in the…
Fox News Channel has signed right-wing commentator Tomi Lahren as a contributor; she will make her debut on tonight’s Hannity. Lahren will have a “signature” role on an FNC digital product currently in development, FNC said, and will provide commentary on the network's “opinion” programming — primarily Sean Hannity’s…
Tomi Lahren will not be returning to Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze. Following a week-long suspension for her pro-choice comments on The View, the right-wing firebrand has been “banned permanently,” according to a report in The New York Post.
"I'm someone that's for limited government. So I can't sit here and be a hypocrite…
Tomi Lahren’s TheBlaze show Tomi has been suspended for a week following the comments she made about abortion on Friday’s The View. During her appearance, Lahren revealed that she was pro-choice, which surprised many of her conservative viewers.
"I'm someone that's for limited government. So I can't sit here and be a…
The Daily Show booked TheBlaze’s Tomi Lahren as its guest last night. Host Trevor Noah and Lahren, who talks super-fast and has therefore become an online star with her takes on Colin Kaepernick and Black Lives Matter, slugged it out, as hoped. Reporters Who Cover Television bit; the video went viral. Everybody…
Crazier things have happened in media. So it would be foolish to completely dismiss the possibility that Donald Trump could successfully launch a TV network after the election — an idea that Financial Timesreports today his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, recently raised with a prominent investment banker.
That item has…
TheBlaze has elevated Betsy Morgan to CEO, from her previous position as President and Chief Strategy Officer. She succeeds Chris Balfe, who had worked with founder Glenn Beck for the past 12 years. She will continue to be based in New York and her position is effective immediately, Beck said today.
Morgan joined…
Tara Setmayer, Communications Director for House Rep Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), is leaving her Capitol Hill post for an on-air gig with Glenn Beck‘s Blaze network, Politico reports. The former media commentator and political consultant will co-anchor BlazeTV‘s Real News program. Setmayer’s TV punditry resume includes…
Cablevision announced today that Glenn Beck‘s news, opinion and entertainment network TheBlaze will be added to Optimum TV’s line-up in late May. TheBlaze is the exclusive provider of The Glenn Beck Program. The network also offers original news and opinion shows such as Real News, Wilkow! and For The Record,…