Glenn Beck Starting Web TV Network, 'GBTV': TVNewser

Glenn Beck plans to start an Internet TV channel called "GBTV," TVNewser reports.

The website unearthed several trademark applications filed by Beck's company, Mercury Radio Arts, for GBTV. One is for "digital materials" such as podcasts and mobile apps; another is for the GBTV logo and covers "webcasting services"; and a third covers "production of programs for dissemination via the Internet and wireless networks in the nature of programs in the fields of current event news, politics, public affairs, news media and journalism, and entertainment news."

The motto for the new venture? "The Truth Lives Here." It's unclear when GBTV would begin airing, however.

It had long been assumed that Beck would move to add another pillar to his growing media empire once he left Fox News. He earned $40 million in 2010 from his various projects, and just this Monday, Mercury launched an online deals site called Markdown.

Beck was also rumored to be thinking about starting his own cable channel.

Comments

[Brandon Fluffy Baker]

04:29 PM on 06/23/2011

I feel like if he really wanted people to hear the truth, he'd do it for free, or at least only charge people very little to watch.
But as someone who listened to Beck before he got big in 2008, I know he's being paid off by propaganda. He's against republicans and democrats, the reason he got on FOX is because he's a conspiracy theorist and can connect dots that may or may not be there to make people think the left is evil... And he's quite good at it.

[fifid]

05:25 PM on 06/09/2011

GBTV begins airing 9/12.

[evenbogee]

09:42 AM on 06/08/2011

I am insider now...wow. Hispanic women for Glen Beck...he's such a joy:)..mmm..mmm

[Abelardo Perez]

08:46 PM on 06/07/2011

BEGGING his listeners to shell out monthly fees to get "exclusive" information (propaganda). it's SOOOOOO PATHETIC!!!
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201106070022

[sloyd]

12:24 AM on 05/31/2011

Boy what hate Beck brings out in the left, keep it up brother.

[AgentGrey]

09:43 AM on 05/31/2011

Negative feedback and "hate" aren't the same. Yes, some people will say they hate Beck, but the term doesn't apply to most of what's being said here.

[Abelardo Perez]

08:48 PM on 06/07/2011

he loves to play the victim but doesn't mind attacking anyone (megan mccain, obama, elmo, a museum) he has no bounds of reason. you'd think a recovering ADDICT would be able to sensor himself when it came to important things, but then again, idiotic tea partiers don't like to be sensored, pathetic racist prix...oops

[Fina Biscotti]

05:22 AM on 06/25/2011

.......gotta be more progressive than that.....inside of bringing matters of "progress" back into the Dark Ages - through sheer ignorance.

[Cowboylove]

06:07 PM on 05/30/2011

He should call it Lonesome Roads. It would fit him perfectly.

[littlebrowngirl]

05:38 PM on 05/30/2011

This station will soon be called the chia pet channel.

[ILoveToPorkSarah]

04:44 PM on 05/30/2011

now I know where to get my fix for doom and gloom.

[PhDcommonsense]

02:18 PM on 05/30/2011

Good, he can be competition with Fox News, on who can tell the most outrageous lies and distortions.

[Fina Biscotti]

05:23 AM on 06/25/2011

That is why MSNBC has the lowest ratings.....

[Raw Ron]

01:20 PM on 05/30/2011

How is this going to work? Most of Beck's fans are still figuring out how to send text messages let alone was online streaming video.

[dcpartner]

12:45 PM on 05/30/2011

The Hate "Beckwork" will be as big of the hit as his FOX show. All the haters will watch and he fade into the shadows where he belongs

[bvdbobcat]

11:04 AM on 05/30/2011

"The Truth Lives Here"??? There is no "V" in lies... Hasn't even started yet and already has a spelling error..

[kayatz3]

02:10 AM on 05/31/2011

That was good, made me laugh!

[JazzQuipster]

09:53 AM on 05/30/2011

His main problem at Fox News was that he lost most of his advertisers due to offensive content. How does he expect to launch this Web TV Network without an advertiser base. The advertiser boycott that doomed him at Fox will follow him to this new venture.

[sully36]

11:39 PM on 05/29/2011

Way to go Glenn, you are the man to make it happen! Plus, it is a hoot to listen to all the donkey dorks go ballistic over your proven success.

[mikerush]

10:46 AM on 05/30/2011

We'll see how successful he is as an independent, without the Faux protective bubble that he's enjoyed for W-A-A-Y too long. I predict a spectacular crash and burn in less than a year.

[samairclean]

12:12 PM on 05/30/2011

He was quite successful for many years before he ever started at Fox.

[Baracous]

11:54 AM on 05/30/2011

the way he keeps successfully getting canceled for low ratings.

[Fina Biscotti]

05:32 AM on 06/25/2011

correction - yr MSNBC has the lowest ratings.

[wvmarv]

10:34 PM on 05/29/2011

I wonder if it will do as well as Beck University is doing?