The. Blaze Wikipedia. The. Blaze is an American multiplatform news and entertainment network available on television, radio, and the Internet founded by talk radio personality and entrepreneur. Glenn Beck, based in Irving, Texas. The. Blaze has studios and offices based in the Las Colinas urban district in Irving, Texas and Los Angeles. Watch Where The Buffalo Roam Online (2017). The network is available on regional cable providers throughout the United States, on Verizon Fios channel 1. Dish Network channel 2. Roku Device, on Sling TV, and is available internationally on its own online streaming service. The live audio stream is available on i. Heart. Radio and both the audio stream and live television stream are available on The. Watch Life Partners Online Hulu. Blaze app, which is on the i. Phone and on Android through Google Play. As of December 3. The. Blaze was available on over 1. Historyedit. Mercury Radio Arts serves as the production and operating company over the The. Blazes outlets. The Mercury Studios Building, which houses the main studios and offices for Mercury Radio Arts. Beck spawned Mercury Radio Arts in 2. Orson Welles seminal Mercury Theatre, which produced live theatrical broadcasts during the 1. The company produces all of Becks productions, including his eponymous radio show, books, and live stage shows, and his official website. On August 3. Restoring Honor rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, Beck launched The. Blaze website, describing it as an alternative to mainstream media outlets, which he said are distorting facts to fit rigid agendas, he said The. Blaze will feature breaking news, original reporting, insightful opinions and engaging videos about the stories that matter most and that we will examine our culture, deal with matters of faith and family, and we wont be afraid of a history lesson. The site was reportedly modeled after The Huffington Post, and has been compared accordingly by Matt De. Long of the Washington Post and Steve Krakauer of Mediaite. Beck announced the creation of an online only network that would replace Insider Extreme as a result of his Fox News departure on June 7, 2. On September 1. 2, 2. Beck launched GBTV acronymous for Glenn Beck TV as an exclusive internet streaming network, produced and operated by Mercury Radio Arts. GBTV would air a television adaptation of his radio show, his television show, and other original programming, including Real News from The. Blaze, a nightly news program hosted by former CNN personality Amy Holmes. On June 1. Mercury Radio Arts announced the consolidation of all of its outlets under the The. Blaze brand, thus renaming the internet television station from GBTV to The. Blaze. 7In 2. 01. Dish Network placed The. Blaze on its channel lineup. Bringing you breaking news, sports, entertainment, opinion, weather and more from Baltimore, Maryland. Light for all. Nintendo Switch The Kotaku Review. The Nintendo Switch is a fascinating new game console built around a novel and wellexecuted Read more Read. As a result of the Get The. Blaze campaign a movement led by supporters to have other supporters call their cable or satellite television provider and ask them to carry the channel, several smaller, regional cable operators also have recently picked up The. Blazeincluding Cablevision also known as Optimum TV Channel 8. New York metropolitan area. Betsy Morgan was named CEO of The. Blaze on December 9, 2. Watch Unleashed Online Forbes' title='Watch Unleashed Online Forbes' />Chris Balfe, who had been CEO since the beginning. Morgan left the company on in June 2. Chief Revenue Officer Kraig Kitchin replaced Morgan until he resigned in January 2. Interim Head of Sales and being replaced by Stewart Padveen, a digital startup entrepreneur, who resigned in February 2. The. Blaze, launching a new OTT CMS platform, innovative new monetization opportunities, highly popular new digital content, expanded distribution and doubling The. Blazes audience size. Beck took over as CEO of the company in May 2. On Monday, November 2, 2. Beck sent an open letter to the Republican National Convention, requesting permission for The. Blaze to host the ninth and final Republican presidential debate. On August 3. 1, 2. The. Blaze laid off nearly 6. ProgramseditDaily showseditNotable weekly showseditTelevision studiosedit. The. Blaze Dallas studios at the Studios at Las Colinas looking into the television control room. The. Blaze headquarters is located in Irving, Texas at the Mercury Studios formerly the Studios at Las Colinas, where feature films Robocop and JFK, and television series Walker, Texas Ranger and Prison Break were filmed. Mercury Radio Arts has taken over the entire complex, where it currently operates production studios, a global newsroom, and also houses Mercury Productions. Mercury Radio Arts, owned and operated by Beck, operates all of its properties from the complex, including The. Blaze, Mercury Productions, Mercury Ink publishing, 1. Supply Co., Real Estate Agents I Trust, and the Mercury One charity organization. Notable personalitieseditProgram hosts for TV and radioeditCorrespondents, contributors, and substitute hostseditFrequent guestseditFormer hosts and contributorseditAdditional outletseditThe. Blaze Radio Network was launched on September 5, 2. OS and Android apps and the i. Heart. Radio app. The. Blaze Radio Network is the exclusive home of conservative talk show hosts Pat Gray and Doc Thompson. The. Blaze website launched on August 2. According to Beck, the site took two months to design. At launch, the sites chief editor was Scott Baker, with its associate editorvideo producer Pam Key and with Jon Seidl and Meredith Jessup as reporters. Key is known for her blog, Naked Emperor News Smoking Gun Video and Images. Baker is a former Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, broadcast journalist who previously worked at The Huffington Post and Breitbart TV. Seidl, of the Manhattan Institute, previously worked at the American Spectator. Jessup previously worked at Townhall. Journalists joining The. Blaze later included S. E. Cupp and David Harsanyi. On its opening morning, the site featured advertisements for Dick Armeys new book and for Goldline International,4 and its lead story dealt with allegations that Education Secretary Arne Duncan encouraged Education Department employees to attend Al Sharptons counter rally in Washington, which took place on the same day as the Restoring Honor rally and at which Duncan spoke. Another story, criticizing Feisal Abdul Rauf, featured the headline Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the Ground Zero mosque, claims to be a Jew, Christian, and a Muslim. But some say thats impossible. In January 2. 01. Betsy Morgan became president and Kraig Kitchin director of sales. Morgan had helmed the Huffington Post until 2. Kitchin had formerly been the president of Premier Radio. In March 2. 01. 1, the site was noted for its critique of James OKeefes NPR sting video. Visits to the website declined from 2. March 2. 01. 4 to 8 million in February 2. Mercury Ink is a co publishing deal with Simon Schuster and was founded by Glenn Beck in 2. Mercury Radio Arts. Started in 2. 01. Mercury Ink publishes adult and young adult novels and non fiction titles. Including books written by Glenn Beck, authors signed to Mercury Ink include New York Times best seller. Richard Paul Evans. MagazineeditThe. Blaze titled Fusion prior to September 2. Mercury Radio Arts and The. Blaze in New York City and circulated throughout the United States. Its former title, Fusion, was taken from Becks talk radio programs slogan, The Fusion of Entertainment and Enlightenment. The editor in chief was Scott Baker. The magazine was sixteen pages and was published monthly except for February and August. Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesnt LikeI Know Because It Happened to Me UpdatedThe story in the New York Times this week was unsettling The New America Foundation, a major think tank, was getting rid of one of its teams of scholars, the Open Markets group. New America had warned its leader Barry Lynn that he was imperiling the institution, the Times reported, after he and his group had repeatedly criticized Google, a major funder of the think tank, for its market dominance. The criticism of Google had culminated in Lynn posting a statement to the think tanks website applauding the European Commissions decision to slap the company with a record breaking 2. That post was briefly taken down, then republished. Soon afterward, Anne Marie Slaughter, the head of New America, told Lynn that his group had to leave the foundation for failing to abide by institutional norms of transparency and collegiality. Google denied any role in Lynns firing, and Slaughter tweeted that the facts are largely right, but quotes are taken way out of context and interpretation is wrong. Despite the conflicting story lines, the underlying premise felt familiar to me Six years ago, I was pressured to unpublish a critical piece about Googles monopolistic practices after the company got upset about it. In my case, the post stayed unpublished. I was working for Forbes at the time, and was new to my job. In addition to writing and reporting, I helped run social media there, so I got pulled into a meeting with Google salespeople about Googles then new social network, Plus. The Google salespeople were encouraging Forbes to add Pluss 1 social buttons to articles on the site, alongside the Facebook Like button and the Reddit share button. They said it was important to do because the Plus recommendations would be a factor in search resultsa crucial source of traffic to publishers. This sounded like a news story to me. Googles dominance in search and news give it tremendous power over publishers. By tying search results to the use of Plus, Google was using that muscle to force people to promote its social network. I asked the Google people if I understood correctly If a publisher didnt put a 1 button on the page, its search results would suffer The answer was yes. After the meeting, I approached Googles public relations team as a reporter, told them Id been in the meeting, and asked if I understood correctly. The press office confirmed it, though they preferred to say the Plus button influences the ranking. They didnt deny what their sales people told me If you dont feature the 1 button, your stories will be harder to find with Google. Watch Drinking Buddies Streaming. With that, I published a story headlined, Stick Google Plus Buttons On Your Pages, Or Your Search Traffic Suffers, that included bits of conversation from the meeting. The Google guys explained how the new recommendation system will be a factor in search. Universally, or just among Google Plus friends I asked. Universal was the answer. So if Forbes doesnt put 1 buttons on its pages, it will suffer in search rankings I asked. Google guy says he wouldnt phrase it that way, but basically yes. An internet marketing group scraped the story after it was published and a version can still be found here. Google promptly flipped out. This was in 2. 01. Google never challenged the accuracy of the reporting. Instead, a Google spokesperson told me that I needed to unpublish the story because the meeting had been confidential, and the information discussed there had been subject to a non disclosure agreement between Google and Forbes. I had signed no such agreement, hadnt been told the meeting was confidential, and had identified myself as a journalist. It escalated quickly from there. I was told by my higher ups at Forbes that Google representatives called them saying that the article was problematic and had to come down. The implication was that it might have consequences for Forbes, a troubling possibility given how much traffic came through Google searches and Google News. I thought it was an important story, but I didnt want to cause problems for my employer. And if the other participants in the meeting had in fact been covered by an NDA, I could understand why Google would object to the story. Given that Id gone to the Google PR team before publishing, and it was already out in the world, I felt it made more sense to keep the story up. Ultimately, though, after continued pressure from my bosses, I took the piece downa decision I will always regret. Forbes declined comment about this. But the most disturbing part of the experience was what came next Somehow, very quickly, search results stopped showing the original story at all. As I recall itand although it has been six years, this episode was seared into my memorya cached version remained shortly after the post was unpublished, but it was soon scrubbed from Google search results. That was unusual websites captured by Googles crawler did not tend to vanish that quickly. And unpublished stories still tend to show up in search results as a headline. Scraped versions could still be found, but the traces of my original story vanished. Its possible that Forbes, and not Google, was responsible for scrubbing the cache, but I frankly doubt that anyone at Forbes had the technical know how to do it, as other articles deleted from the site tend to remain available through Google. Deliberately manipulating search results to eliminate references to a story that Google doesnt like would be an extraordinary, almost dystopian abuse of the companys power over information on the internet. I dont have any hard evidence to prove that thats what Google did in this instance, but its part of why this episode has haunted me for years The story Google didnt want people to read swiftly became impossible to find through Google. Google wouldnt address whether it deliberately deep sixed search results related to the story. Asked to comment, a Google spokesperson sent a statement saying that Forbes removed the story because it was not reported responsibly, an apparent reference to the claim that the meeting was covered by a non disclosure agreement. Again, I identified myself as a journalist and signed no such agreement before attending. People who paid close attention to the search industry noticed the pieces disappearance and wroteaboutit, wondering why it disappeared. Those pieces, at least, are still findable today. As for how effective the strategy was, Googles dominance in other industries didnt really pan out for Plus. Six years later, the social network is a ghost town and Google has basically given up on it. But back when Google still thought it could compete with Facebook on social, it was willing to play hardball to promote the network. Google started out as a company dedicated to ensuring the best access to information possible, but as its grown into one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world, its priorities have changed. Even as it fights against ordinary people who want their personal histories removed from the web, the company has an incentive to suppress information about itself. Google said it never urged New America to fire Lynn and his team. But an entity as powerful as Google doesnt have to issue ultimatums. It can just nudge organizations and get them to act as it wants, given the influence it wields.