Beck’s Back: TheBlazeTV Celebrates One-Year Anniversary With DISH Network Launch

by Tiffany Gabbay

Continuing on an upward trajectory, Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of TheBlazeTV– formerly GBTV — with a significant expansion into the world of satellite television. Partnering with DISH Network, Glenn Beck’s online 24-hour news, information and entertainment network will now be available on television exclusively on DISH, joining a host of channels including MSNBC, BBC America, CNN, Current, Comedy Central and FOX News.

After launching exactly one year ago, TheBlazeTV rapidly grew into one of the world’s most subscribed-to online streaming networks. TheBlazeTV will be available to DISH viewers on channel 212 as part of DISH’s America’s Top 250 package or a la carte for $5 a month. The channel launches on Wednesday, September 12, at 5 p.m. EDT.

TheBlaze and its host of established and emerging talent including Andrew Wilkow, S.E. Cupp, Buck Sexton and Will Cain, will offer its programming as a free preview for all DISH customers through Sept. 26.

Of course, TheBlazeTV will continue to be available online at TheBlaze.com, where on-demand programs can be accessed with the click of a mouse-pad.

“After being phenomenally successful with his online streaming network, we’re pleased to host Glenn Beck’s return to broadcast TV, especially during this exciting and important political season,” said DISH CEO and President Joseph Clayton in an official press release. “With Glenn’s return, DISH is truly the one stop for news, opinion and perspective across the full political spectrum.”

Excited for the future, Beck added, “TheBlaze has helped revolutionize television over the Internet and now we are excited to bring the revolution back to traditional television.”

“TheBlaze will be home to news, information and entertainment programming with the facts and stories people care about most and we look forward to kicking things off with DISH.”

Christopher Balfe, CEO of TheBlaze also weighed in, stating that the goal of the company was to “deliver TV over the Internet, not Internet TV.”

“Twelve months later, we’ve succeeded beyond our wildest imagination with content that built one of the world’s largest subscription streaming networks,” he added.

The line-up of programs will continue to grow, as well as feature all of the familiar faces people from around the world have come to know — from The Glenn Beck Program to Liberty TreeHouse, Real News From TheBlaze, to a brand new program hosted by Andrew Wilkow.

What’s more, TheBlaze.com concluded August with its best month ever, hosting over 9 million unique visitors and is led by a formidable team of media veterans including: President and CCO Joel Cheatwood, formerly a Senior Vice President at FoxNews and CNN, President and Chief Revenue Officer Kraig Kitchin who co-founded Premiere Radio Networks, and Betsy Morgan, President & Chief Strategy Officer who formerly served as CEO of The Huffington Post and as a Senior Vice President at CBS News.

TheBlazeTV can now be found on DISH channel 212

Glenn discusses the future of TheBlaze

Well, anyone who hoped they’d seen the last of Glenn Beck on cable television had a very disappointing day. Glenn announced on radio that TheBlaze will debut on DISH today beginning at 5pm eastern time. (TheBlaze TV is still available online via subscription featuring on demand access.) Check out Glenn’s comments and plans for the future HERE.

Media reacts to Beck’s TheBlaze DISH announcement: Favorable? Find out HERE.

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TOP VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS: BECK LAUNCHES NEW GBTV PROGRAM

Glenn Beck launched his new two-hour nightly program on Tuesday night on GBTV.com.

Here are a few of the highlights from the first broadcast.

The Truth on Islamic Extremism (See Video)

Where We Were on 9/12 (See Video)

Terrorist Attack on Lady Liberty (See Video)

Glenn Welcomes First Responders (See Video)

You can check out the new show during a free two-week trial.  For more information click here.

BECK SAYS CHAVEZ NOT HAPPY ABOUT PLANNED STOP IN VENEZUELA

On radio Thursday, Glenn Beck told his audience that while on his way to South Africa, there was a curious incident that occurred during a planned stopover in Egypt.* But what we didn’t know yesterday is why. Now we do: it’s partly because of Hugo Chavez.

Beck told the Chavez-related story on his show Friday, and said that Chavez raised questions about Beck’s planned stop in Venezuela, and those questions were relayed to Beck during his stop in Egypt.

“I am informed by [my chief of staff] Joe that Hugo Chavez wanted a detailed itinerary of what I was planning on doing in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela, and Hugo didn’t like it, and he would not allow my plane to land in Venezuela,” he explained.

Beck is planning on visiting South America as part of a special leg of a global human rights campaign.

Despite the push back from Chavez, however, Beck may have gotten the last laugh. According to him, he has “found a way” to still get his message across in the dictator’s country: via technology.*

“Hugo believes that he is going to stop people like me from speaking out and speaking their mind,” Beck said.

Listen to beck tell the story below (HERE):

*We‘ve updated the story after getting some more details from Beck’s camp about the stop and the incident…

Related:

Beck Issues Call for Human Responsibility Movement; Departs Jerusalem for South Africa… Herman Cain Joined Beck in Israel

GA: Theater Canceled Restoring Courage Screening After Finding Out Beck Was Associated… Really?  Idiots!!

From Glenn Beck Radio Show… Video:  The Gas Chambers Are Ready!

BECK ISSUES CALL FOR ‘HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY’ MOVEMENT; DEPARTS JERUSALEM FOR SOUTH AFRICA; DEATH THREATS TO BECK AND EVENT PARTICIPANTS

BECK ISSUES CALL FOR ‘HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY’ MOVEMENT; DEPARTS JERUSALEM FOR SOUTH AFRICA

Scroll down for video and links to full text of Beck’s speech and Declaration of Rights & Responsibilities

The heat of the afternoon sun in Jerusalem could not match the fervor of Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Courage” call to follow a “pillar of fire” in pursuit of the truth and wisdom.

After months of preparation, the controversial event unfolded smoothly with Beck telling the large crowd, “I have been asked: What can you teach Israel about Courage?   My answer is simple.  Nothing.  Then they ask: Why are you coming to Israel? Because, I say: In Israel, you see courage.”

Beck described the world as “confused,” and pointed to flash points in Europe as signs of societies losing touch with philosophical moorings:

“In Europe, the great nations of the past – Greece, Italy, Spain, Britain – are falling into chaos and violence.

We have raised up a generation who cannot tell the difference between what they owe society and what society owes them.

They interviewed the rioters in England. Why, they were asked, are you stealing shoes or televisions. “Because,” the rioters said in response, “because we deserve them.”

We may think: Oh, how different are today’s youth! But the young merely imitate their parents. They have seen how the world reacts to evil – with indifference. They watch, they learn, they imitate. What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.”

Anti-Beck protests chanted from outside the Old City walls, but groups of pro-Beck Israelis countered with signs and songs of their own.

Beck challenged the live crowd and those watching on his new GBTV network to read what he is calling a Declaration of Rights & Responsibilities:

In order to continually experience life, liberty and happiness as promised, nature’s God demands obedience to His law to protect those rights.

This is where we have fallen short and therefore, in order not to lose the blessings of freedom, the people of the world must turn from the sole focus on rights, and recognize the inherent and required responsibilities that we have.

Among the responsibilities to which we must adhere to maintain our God given rights are honor, courage and vigilance.

Over time, we believe that these basic human responsibilities have been trampled, and replaced with degradation, fear and apathy.

Saying that “it didn’t take a prophet to see these things,” Beck described his growing concern that turbulent world affairs would bode ill for Israel:

“And so this year, when I saw Tunisia’s and Egypt’s rulers crack and fall and the world called it the Arab Spring, I said: Where could this be going? And behind these revolutions was a familiar force, a force that will place those nations under a new pharaoh. And that force, I said, would come up to the borders of Israel. And so it has.

We are not at the mercy of these events. We can alter the course of history. We can stand against the dangerous arc of this story.

But we need people who are willing to speak truth. We need inspiration. We need a model to follow.”

You can read the full declaration here.

For the full text of Beck’s speech and additional video clips click here.

Beck said that at the conclusion of his speech he would leave that instant for South Africa:

“Some people call Israel an apartheid state. I reject that. And so immediately following this program I will fly to South Africa, which is where apartheid actually existed. I will broadcast from Cape Town tomorrow morning to remind the world what the evil of apartheid really looked like.

And I will learn from the people who conquered the hatred, ignorance and bigotry and who chartered a peaceful course for a new South Africa.

Then on Friday I will fly to South America to plead the case of human responsibility to a group of nearly 5,000 local leaders from all over the continent and ask them to join me in standing in defense of Israel, the Jewish people and responsibility.

Finally on Sunday, I will speak to 5,000 Americans in Dallas, Texas.   I have chosen to end my week in the town where I will headquarter the charitable division of my company, Mercury One.  Dedicated to the idea that one man, inspired by one God, makes a difference. This trip will end where a global moment begins.”

While Glenn Beck’s Restoring Courage event in Israel appeared to go off without a hitch to those watching, he revealed on radio Thursday that he and his team were forced to make last-minute changes because several confirmed participants faced threats, including threats on their lives.

Beck said that the choir scheduled to perform canceled just days before the finale after they were called into a meeting last Friday and told they would be dismissed, and would probably never work again, if they contributed their talents. Despite being in full support of the program, they decided that the consequences were just too great.

The choir that performed, then, was “cobbled together” after the original choir canceled on Sunday.

Several others suffered similar threats, including death threats.

“I have to tell you some of the stories that I wasn’t able to tell you before and let’s start with this,” Beck explained while broadcasting from South Africa. “Yesterday, if you watched the broadcast on GBTV, if you watched the whole event that unfolded at the Temple Mount, what you may not know is how many people canceled at the last minute, and not because they were, you know, ‘I’m not going to stand with him,’ none of that. The reason why they canceled is because they were under death threat.”

In fact, Beck revealed that an Arab participant couldn’t even sing words when he took the stage. Instead, he could only utter melodic moans — anything else could have cost him his life.

“I don’t blame them for this at all,” Beck said regarding those who decided to pull out. You can listen to him explain the threats and the changes below:

Video:  Glenn Beck Radio From Cape Town South Africa

Which 2012 candidate 'STOOD WITH Israel'?
Only one of the announced GOP Presidential hopefuls made the trip to Glenn Beck's three-day "Restoring Courage" event in Israel. You can see who visited the Western Wall and attended the big event HERE.

 

It is Also the One Year Anniversary of Beck’s Restoring Honor Event in Washington D.C

Time to stand up and be counted!!  Link arms my friends… link arms!!

One Last Time: Goodnight, America…

Yesterday Glenn Beck and his audience began a new chapter.  His life at Fox and on mainstream TV ended as he exited the stage of his Fox News set for the last time with one last “From New York, Goodnight, America”.

TV Newser:

The final broadcast of “The Glenn Beck Show” was a little bit of everything: a look back, a glimpse into the future and a frank assessment of the reasons behind Beck’s Fox News Channel departure.

Beck, who ad-libbed much of his last hour as an FNC host, spoke candidly about the decision to launch a web-based TV channel, saying he hoped he had earned viewers’ trust on “The Glenn Beck Show.” “Anyone watching this show knows that I have bent this format so far out of its structure, out of its parameters,” Beck said. “This is a news channel. I do commentary.”

“This show has become a movement,” he said. “It’s not a TV show. And that’s why it doesn’t belong on television. It belongs in your homes, it belongs in your neighborhoods.” Read full story at the Blaze

Video:  Glenn Beck: The Final Fox Show  -  Filled with some memories of the past 2.5 years and hope and solutions…

Glenn Beck is a wonderful man who has worked so hard to share the truth that the lame stream socialist media does not want to tell us about. Glenn has generated an awareness among millions of us who were blindly trusting what the lame stream media put out there but no longer. Glenn has millions of people who have been and will continue to be enlightened by the truth. God Bless Glenn, his family, his staff and friends. …EricDadof3

So What’s Next…

Video:  Glenn’s Walk From last show at Fox to GBTV show immediately afterwards

Please support Glenn and his new endeavor by becoming part of the “saving America” team by signing up for GBTV. You can get a subscription for as little as $4.95 per month. If you are an Insider Extreme Member, you will automatically be subscribed to GBTV!  it is worth the price of a cuppa whatever you buy out… coffee, tea, etc, for a month’s subscription for not only education and solutions for America’s future but to be part of the the future of media…

The Truth About Beck’s Ratings

“The Five”:  Fox Announces New Show to Fill Glenn Beck Tim Slot

Beck Watch: Boycott Decimates Advertisers and Freedom of Speech – Time Magazine Noticed Him Anyway~

Glenn on Time Magazine's Cover
Time Article- Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?

You know what they say… “I don’t care what you say about me… Just spell my name right! Indeed, if Time Magazine put Glenn Beck on their cover he is doing something right and people are noticing him… so more people will hear what he has to say.

But Stand-Up for Glenn and Free Speech Anyway~

Five hundred and sixty thousand dollars. That's what radical ColorofChange estimates Glenn Beck has cost Fox News since the beginning of the Beck boycott last month. 62 national advertisers appear to have dropped the show since August.

Here's the list of who's still hangin' in there

Lear Capital

Liberty Medical

ExtenZe

News Corp. (The Wall Street Journal)

Rosland Capital

LifeLock

Conservatives for Patient's Rights

Clarity Media Group (The Weekly Standard)

Roche Diagnostics (Accu-Chek Aviva)

Citrix (GoToMeeting)

Merit Financial

Goldline International, Inc

Carbonite

National Review

We must write letters of support to these companies that are supporting Glenn Beck and continue to write and pressure the companies who have dropped advertising on Glenn’s show. We must also write Fox and thank them for standing up for the Freedoms of Speech and of the Press.

And for anyone who thinks this is a victory, they really don't understand freedom of speech or the fact that if they can do this to someone you don't like today... they will do it to someone you do like (or to you) tomorrow...

We all need to remember this little poem from WWII:

FIRST THEY CAME...

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

Then they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
I did not protest;
I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
I did not protest;
I was a Protestant.

Then they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.

I always remind people of the Supreme Court decision in favor of Larry Flynt of Hustler Magazine... when people were infuriated. The Supreme Court did not agree with Larry... they upheld the constitution and all our rights of speech. Sadly, liberals only like freedom of speech when it applies to themselves or people they agree with. You see that in the fact that the ACLU never stands up for conservatives... or only half heartedly when they are called on it.

Tea Partiers, Town Hallers, 9/12ers, Conservatives, Moderate Democrats, Libertarians, Republicans, Beck Viewers & Listeners and Believers in the First Amendment, we must stand up and fight for Glenn and against this radical anti-American Group!!!

Posted: Daily Thought Pad – Cross Posted: Knowledge Creates Power