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Finally, Glenn Beck Might Start His Own Network
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John Del Signore
Published Mar 23, 2011
Modified Mar 23, 2011
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In Sidney Lumet's 1976 film Network, an enraged former news host takes over a TV station to broadcast his feverish diatribes against a bankrupt culture. Next year, Glenn Beck's life may imitate Lumet's art, when the Fox News star carries out a rumored plan to leave the network and start his own Beck Network (Beckwork?). All the Beck you could ever want, in one place, 24/7—Jon Stewart's going to have to start paying Beck royalties for this surfeit.
Brian Stelter at the Times reports that "Beck’s company has been staffing up — making Web shows, some of which have little or nothing to do with Mr. Beck, and charging a monthly subscription for access to the shows." We admittedly haven't done such a good job of paying attention to Beck, so we had no idea that he runs a subscription-only website called Insider Extreme. Only $6.26 in gold a month! Another rumor is that he may expand the site and produce an exclusive show for the Internet. Beck's already getting extremely wealthy from the web; according to Forbes Magazine, he makes $4 million a year from his Internet operations, which is twice as much as the $2 million he earned from Fox.
Asked about his future, Beck issued this carefully-worded statement: "Roger Ailes has built the most important voice in America today — Fox News — and it is an honor to do my show there every night. I have no intention whatsoever of doing the show I am doing now on Fox anywhere else." Okay, so instead of chalk, he'll be using dry-erase markers on his own network!
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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