The Blaze Gets Its Own Series On Glenn Beck’s GBTV

by Jon Bershad | 11:32 am, January 9th, 2012

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GBTV, the online venture of Glenn Beck, has announced another new series. The network has formed a partnership with Beck-owned news site The Blaze (something tells me it wasn’t too hard to swing that) for an upcoming hour-long news show titled Real News From The Blaze.

The Blaze, which predates GBTV by a little more than a year, has been a part of the network from the beginning with correspondent Amy Holmes providing regular news updates of the sites’ big stories on Beck’s nightly show in the title of The Blaze News Anchor.

The new show, which will air nightly, will premiere on January 18th, the same night as GBTV’s new reality series, the ridiculous/ridiculously awesome looking Independence, USA.

Man, now we just have to hope someone spills wine on Dan Abrams so that he quits ABC, moves to Texas, and gives us here at Mediaite our own show!

…actually, forget that. You guys really don’t want to see what we look like. We’re hideous.

Read the full GBTV press release below:

GBTV LAUNCHES REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE

Hour Nightly Show Will Feature The Blaze’s Editorial Team and Will Break News and Offer Context Often Ignored By the Media

Real News From the Blaze Joins GBTV’s Growing Line-Up and Will Debut as Part of GBTV’s Premiere Night on January 18th
Which Also Features the Launch of the Reality Show Independence USA

(New York, NY January 9th 2012) GBTV, Glenn Beck’s live streaming video network, announced today that it is launching Real News From The Blaze, a one hour news show dedicated to focusing on stories that the mainstream media misses and are of interest and importance to GBTV’s subscribers. Real News From The Blaze debuts at 7pm est on January 18th, GBTV’s Premiere Night which also features the launch of Independence USA, the network’s first reality show.

GBTV is partnering with The Blaze, Mercury Radio Arts’ news and information network, to provide the news, reporting and analysis for the program. The show will feature among others The Blaze.com’s Editor in Chief Scott Baker, Amy Holmes, SE Cupp, Will Cain, and Buck Sexton, with the full support of The Blaze’s entire editorial team. TheBlaze.com received over 6 million unique visitors per month in December 2011.

This announcement furthers the collaboration between GBTV and the Blaze. Amy Holmes also currently serves as The Blaze News Anchor on Beck’s daily two hour show providing news updates. The Blaze also provides news reports for Glenn’s radio show.

Joel Cheatwood, President of Programming at GBTV said: “While GBTV is and will remain an information and entertainment network, we saw a real opportunity to provide the news that our audience is looking for and is too often ignored by the mainstream media. We are passionate about offering our audience a deeply reported and engaging look at the news and are excited to be able to draw on the incredible editorial resources at The Blaze.”

Scott Baker, EIC of The Blaze said: “The Blaze audience knows we mean it when we say The Truth Has No Agenda. Our goal is to pursue truth and see where that takes us. To have an hour each night to make sense of the day’s news is going to be a tremendous opportunity. That it comes during a pivotal election year bring us an even greater responsibility to be rigorous and relentless.”

Each and every day there’s a whole world of news and information that goes unreported, ignored by the mainstream media. Stories, issues, and events that impact the daily lives of Americans young and old ignored, purposely discarded, or “reported” without the benefit of the full perspective or context. News = Truth…and the truth has no agenda. Real News from The Blaze will play no favorites. The good, the bad, and the downright ugly will be presented unvarnished and complete without a nod to the left or the right. News and analysis from the worlds of politics, national security, the economy, foreign policy, and whatever else impacts our lives. Virginia Leahy, who helped develop and launch three primetime shows on HLN, will serve as executive producer.

Since its launch, GBTV has already added a wide range of original programming including the reality show Independence USA, the kid’s show Liberty Tree House and the comedy news show The B.S. of A. GBTV also recently announced a deal with Icebox, the innovative animation production company to jointly develop an animated comedy series. GBTV features Glenn’s two-hour show, which is airs live weekdays from 5 to 7PM ET and is broadcast from Dallas, Texas.
About Mercury Radio Arts

Mercury Radio Arts is Glenn Beck’s fully integrated multi-media production company. Mercury produces all Glenn Beck related properties including The Glenn Beck Program, America’s third highest-rated radio show, Beck’s New York Times bestselling books, and his live stage-show business.

Mercury’s digital platforms now include GlennBeck.com, the fan portal; GBTV, the live streaming video network;Markdown.com , the e-commerce site for connecting consumers with valuable discounts; and TheBlaze.com, the News & Information network. The Mercury Digital network receives over 6 million unique visitors per month.

Founded in 2002, Mercury has a full time staff of over 100 employees and is headquartered in New York, NY with radio and television facilities in Dallas, Texas.

Amy Holmes, GBTV, Glenn Beck, The Blaze

Anonymous

Why are you giving this lunatic coverage he doesn’t deserve.
OSTL

Sweet!
Pablo

U mad, bro?
Pablo

Amy’s been doing brief headline bits from the get go. A full show with her at the helm is a nice development.
Anonymous

Must have struck a nerve?
Pablo

Capiche? Ahhhh…..
Anonymous

On the debate – that ridiculous question about condoms…. was the moderator attempting to draw a parallel between condom usage and abortion, I wonder? Is there someone out there who believes that abortion is some kind birth control option? Who are these people???
Anonymous

The Blaze!!!…sounds kind of gay to me…
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1572984371 Cindy Nowicki

Sadly, I believe, there are more than a few women, who Do use abortion as a means of birth control.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1572984371 Cindy Nowicki

I’ve been impressed with the programs on GBTV. I love his show and know Amy will do a great job with a daily news show.

Beck is not only an innovator, but one who has an excellent record for reporting and telling the truth.
Anonymous

The left just can’t stand Beck’s successes. By the way, one can get GBTV via Roku so you’re not suck to your computer.
Anonymous

Sure, if you think whackadoodle soup equals truthfulness. I’d watch his show on Fox and could barely believe that people would be stupid enough to fall for his techniques. People like you, thankfully, are the minority in the gene pool.
Anonymous

Are you saying that there are women who would prefer to spend around $500 a pop as a birth control method instead of taking real precautions? Don’t be ridiculous, you Beck-watching fruit.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

u actually think a teenager girl spends 500 bucks for an abortion?
Anonymous

You try.
Anonymous

Comments like yours are why the land values around your home are worse than others
Anonymous

Sounds like wacko had to fill some time and rerun the same lies for the rubes! They didn’t understand the spin the first time.
Anonymous

No “super,” “Alric” thinks the govt should and does pay for an abortion. “[R]eal precautions” would be keeping both parties clothes on, perhaps Alric can’t understand that concept, but he’s not alone.

Current stats say not too many are taking any precautions as 71% of African-American babies are born out of wedlock, 52% of Hispanic, and 27% of anglo.

The highest percent of abortions occur in the African-American community, so somebody (govt?) is paying for these $500 or more abortions.
Pablo

You fail. Like Bill Daley! I knew an adult wouldn’t last in this White House.
Anonymous

As far as Beck’s programing, nobody is forced to watch or subscibe. It seems that many who don’t watch, have never watched, or will never watch don’t have any problems making an opinion on a “product” that they have never “used.”
Pablo

Are you saying that over a million abortions a year are medically necessary?
Anonymous

My point is that drawing a parallel between condom use and abortion is a non sequitir. – IF that is what the moderator was attempting to do -to draw a paralle with this question it is silly because there is only an issue about condom use if there is also an issue about women using actual birth control methods like the pill, diaghrams, female condoms and yes, even keeping condoms handy just in case the man does not do so. The question was NOT about abortion and had it been then it would actually have made more sense in the scope of the debate. IF, on the other hand, this was meant to be a dig at Rick Santorum’s Catholic faith, the question was just as preposterous.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LMFP4FIMSXY3IKJNX5UEYUIGWU MickNY

At least one person is doing some thing to create jobs, go Glenn!
Pablo

Oh, he was Catholic bashing, no doubt. Your point is well taken. Alric is a bit of an idiot.
DoNotMindMe

Yes, it appears that Beck did strike a nerve with ya.
Anonymous

This is like when Oprah’s channel started to tank and she started mixing content from her “O” magazine and vice-versa…it’s a death spiral…he doesn’t have as much money as Oprah to keep something like this alive. Especially something with such a little following.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

great! now people can not watch another GBTV show!
Anonymous

Crazy folks need entertainment too!
Keeps them out of trouble and out of the way.
But any show without GB will not hold his flocks’ interest.
They come to be mesmerized by his charismatic BS.
Anything else seems too tame. Or is that lame?
Anonymous

Why shouldn’t they ? They let lunatics post comments !!
Truth Has No Agenda

Glenn Beck has more subscribers who are paying to watch GBTV than OWN has viewers. Glenn is going to make $100 million the first year alone. He is only going to get bigger & bigger. Glenn will be a billionaire himself. You can’t stop the truth.
Truth Has No Agenda

Actually only a liberal would think The Blaze is gay. The blaze refers to the burning bush in the bible. The Blaze of truth only burns away the lies. Only a miscreant would think it was gay. BTW I always knew liberals were
homophobic!!!
Truth Has No Agenda

There are 14 year olds who are on the 3 abortion. So yes many ‘women’ use abortions as a form of contraception.
Truth Has No Agenda

Yes its called Planned Parenthood. They get a half of billion dollars from the American taxpayers who pay for all the poor who the abortion fees.
Truth Has No Agenda

Another example of liberal hate mongers. They outnumber any conservative haters 100 to 1.
Anonymous

It reads more like a revamp of the week in review show For the Record, with an increased reliance on Amy Holmes up on top at the desk throwing it to the others for the bulk of analysis. I doubt its going to be just her with an hour news show.
Anonymous

So institutionalizing the practice of abortion as brith control is going to change the practice in teenagers? This sounds like a parental issue.
Anonymous

GBTV has almost no subscribers…which is why they can’t pay for any talent to have their own programming on the “channel” – lolol. Too bad, so sad. you should offer some programming to Beck. Haha.
Pablo

So, you didn’t read the post. Nice.
Anonymous

What did I say that was homophobic…thats a big jump in logic…but you guys are used to no logic which is why you believe in magic bushes. Isn’t possible “burning bush” was what they called STDs in bible times? There no proof to disprove that!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JQX5VMSKEAXMAFCABTDQZFBFXI Chuck Melo

I think there are teenagers and adult women who take birth control but still get pregnant because they aren’t able to comprehend that you can still get pregnant while on birth control. They don’t have to pay for an abortion because there are taxpayer’s clinic that have abortions as part of family planning. Some are just too lazy to remember to take their pills and others don’t realize that if you take antibiotics the pill doesn’t work. Or maybe they just don’t care cause they know that they can get an abortion for free. I speak from working with the poor and the indigent for 30 years. This is what I have seen from those experiences. That’s why family planning clinics are so successful and lucrative.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JQX5VMSKEAXMAFCABTDQZFBFXI Chuck Melo

So you like the Charisma of Chris Mathews, Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow, and those other left winged Obama water carriers. By the way blue dog refers to moderate Democrats.There are no moderate Dems in the party and have not been for some time. I watch MSNBC and other so called mainstream media for entertainment and spin. Also the DNC chairman Debbie Schultz knows how to put spin and inuendo. She is such a shill and she is the new Weinner and Grayson for the party. Blue dogs according to artist Rodrigue are mythical characters like the Loup Garu and they don’t exist.