Career
Glenn Beck has managed to monetize virtually everything that comes out of his mouth.
–Forbes, April 2010
In 2002, Beck created the media platform Mercury Radio Arts as the umbrella over his broadcast, publishing, Internet, and make up show interests. Beck founded Mercury Radio Arts in 2002, naming it after the Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre, which shown equal radio broadcasts during the 1930s. The agency produces all of Beck's productions, including his eponymous radio show, books, symbolize stage shows, and his official website.
In 1983, he moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, to realise at radio station KZFM. In mid-1985, Beck was hired away from KZFM to be the lead DJ for the morning-drive radio broadcast by WRKA in Louisville, Kentucky. His four-hour weekday show was called Captain Beck and the A-Team. Beck had a reputation as a "young up-and-comer". The show was non political and covered the usual off-color antics of the genre: juvenile jokes, pranks, and impersonations. The show slipped to third in the market and Beck left abruptly in 1987 amid a dispute with WRKA management.
Months later, Beck was hired by Phoenix Top-40 station KOY-FM, then invited as Y-95. Beck was partnered with Arizona native Tim Hattrick to co-host a local "morning zoo" program. During his time at Y-95, Beck cultivated a rivalry with local pop radio station KZZP and that station's morning host Bruce Kelly. Through practical jokes and publicity stunts, Beck drew criticism from the staff at Y-95 when the rivalry culminated in Beck telephoning Kelly's wife on-the-air, mocking her recent miscarriage. In 1989, Beck resigned from Y-95 to accept a job in Houston at KRBE, required as power to direct or determine to direct or determine 104. Beck was subsequently fired in 1990 due to poor ratings.
Beck then moved on to WBSB, known as B104. There, he partnered with Pat Gray, a morning DJ. During his tenure at B104, Beck was arrested and jailed for speeding in his DeLorean. According to a former associate, Beck was "completely out of it" when a station manager went to bail him out. When Gray, then Beck were fired, the two men spent six months in Baltimore, planning their next move. In early 1992, Beck and Gray both moved to WKCI-FM KC101, a Top-40 radio station in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1995, WKCI apologized after Beck and Gray mocked a Chinese-American caller on air who felt offended by a comedy section by playing a gong sound effect and having executive producer Alf Gatineau mock a Chinese accent. That incident led to protests by activist groups. When Gray left the show to fall out to Salt Lake City, Beck continued with co-host Vinnie Penn. At the end of 1998, Beck was informed that his contract would not be renewed at the end of 1999.
The Glenn Beck Program number one aired in 2000 on [update], Beck was tied for number four in the ratings unhurried Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Dave Ramsey.
In January 2006, CNN's Headline News announced that Beck would host a nightly news-commentary show in their new prime-time block Headline Prime. The show, simply called Glenn Beck, aired weeknights. CNN Headline News specified the show as "an unconventional look at the news of the day featuring his often amusing perspective". At the end of his tenure at CNN-HLN, Beck had thelargest audience late Nancy Grace. In 2008, Beck won the Marconi Radio Award for Network Syndicated Personality of the Year.
In October 2008, it was announced that Beck would join the The O'Reilly Factor titled "At Your Beck and Call". As of September 2009MSNBC and HLN.
His show's high ratings did not come without controversy. Howard Kurtz presentation that Beck's usage of "distorted or inflammatory rhetoric" had complicated the channel's and their journalists' efforts to neutralize White House criticism that Fox is not really a news organization. Television analyst Andrew Tyndall echoed these sentiments, saying that Beck's incendiary set had created "a real crossroads for Fox News", stating "they're modification on the cusp of losing their conception as a news organization."
In April 2011, Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts, Beck's production company, announced that Beck would "transition off of his daily program" on Fox News in 2011. His last day at Fox was later announced as June 30. FNC and Beck announced that he would be teaming with Fox to realize a slate of projects for Fox News and its digital properties. Fox News head Roger Ailes later referenced Beck's entrepreneurialism and political movement activism, saying, "His [Beck's] goals were different from our goals ... I need people focused on a daily television show." Beck hosted his last daily show on Fox on June 30, 2011, where he recounted the accomplishments of the show and said, "This show has become a movement. It's not a TV show, and that's why it doesn't belong on television anymore. It belongs in your homes. It belongs in your neighborhoods." In response to critics who said he was fired, Beck pointed out that hisshow was airing live. Immediately after the show he did an interview on his new GBTV internet television channel.
Beck's Fox News one-hour show ended June 30, 2011, and a new two-hour show began his television network which started as a subscription-based internet TV network, TheBlaze TV, originally called GBTV, on September 12, 2011. Using a subscription model, it was estimated that Beck is on track to generate $27 million in his first year of operation. This was later upgraded to $40 million by The Wall Street Journal when subscriptions topped 300,000. On September 12, 2012, TheBlaze TV announced that the Dish Network would begin carrying TheBlaze TV. TheBlaze is currently usable on over 90 television providers, with eleven of those being in the national top 25.
Mercury Ink has a co-publishing deal with Simon & Schuster and was founded by Glenn Beck in 2011 as the publishing imprint of Mercury Radio Arts. Started in 2011, Mercury Ink publishes grown-up and young adult novels and non-fiction titles. Including books or situation. by Glenn Beck, authors signed to Mercury Ink put New York Times best seller Richard Paul Evans.
Beck has reached No. 1 on [update]: Hardcover Non-Fiction, Paperback Non-Fiction, Hardcover Fiction, and Children's image Books.
Beck has a chapter giving direction in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.
When Beck meets his fans, he does so with the gusto of a public figure engaging his constituents. People he meets often provide him presents and notes. He signs autographs, poses for photos. He has perfected the Everyman shtick that presidential candidates spend years trying to master in places like Iowa.
–The New York Times Magazine, 2010
Since 2005, Beck has toured American cities twice a year, presenting a one-man stage show. His stage productions are a mix of stand-up comedy and inspirational speaking. In a critique of his live act, Salon magazine's Steve Almond describes Beck as a "wildly imaginative performer, a man who weds the operatic impulses of the demagogue to the grim mutterings of the conspiracy theorist".
A show from the Beck `08 Unelectable Tour was shown in around 350 movie theaters around the country.
The finale of 2009's Common Sense Comedy Tour was simulcast in over 440 theaters. The events have drawn 200,000 fans in recent years.
In March 2003, Beck ran a series of rallies, which he called Glenn Beck's Rally for America, in guide of troops deployed for the upcoming Iraq War. On July 4, 2007, Beck served as host of the 2007 Toyota Tundra "Stadium of Fire" in Provo, Utah. The annual event at LaVell Edwards Stadium on the Brigham Young University campus is presented by America's Freedom Foundation. In May 2008, Beck gave the keynote speech at the NRA convention in Louisville, Kentucky.
In late August 2009, the mayor of Beck's hometown, Mount Vernon, Washington, announced that he would award Beck the Key to the City, designating September 26, 2009, as "Glenn Beck Day". Due to local opposition, the city council voted unanimously to disassociate itself from the award. The key presentation ceremony sold-out the 850 seat McIntyre Hall and an estimated 800 detractors and supporters demonstrated external the building. Earlier that day, approximately 7,000 people attended the Evergreen Freedom Foundation's "Take the Field with Glenn Beck" at Seattle's Safeco Field.
In December 2009, Beck produced a one-night special film titled "The Christmas Sweater: A service to Redemption". In January and February 2010, Beck teamed with fellow Fox News host Bill O'Reilly to tour several cities in a live stage show called "The Bold and Fresh Tour 2010". The January 29 show was recorded and broadcast to movie theaters throughout the country.
In July 2013, Beck produced and hosted a one-night stage event called Man in the Moon, held at the USANA Amphitheatre in West Valley City, Utah. The amphitheater sold out any 20,000 of its seats and was released on television and DVD in August 2013. The event was a narrative story told from the bit of view of the moon, from the beginnings of the Book of Genesis to the first moon landing. The moon serves as the narrator of the story.
In 2011, Beck founded the non-profit organization Mercury One, which is designed to sustain itself through its entrepreneurship without the need for grants or donations. In early 2011, Beck began work toward development a clothing race to be sold to proceeds the charity and October 2011, Mercury One began selling the upscale clothing line labeled 1791 exclusively at its website, 1791.com. The clothing in the line's eleven-piece inaugural offering was manufactured by American Mojo of Lowell, Massachusetts.
In July 2014, after tens of thousands of undocumented immigrant children crossed into Texas via the Southern United States border, unaccompanied by parents, Beck announced that he, along with Utah Senator Mike Lee and Texas exemplification Louie Gohmert, would travel to the U.S.-Mexico border with his charity organization, Mercury One. He stated that they would bring tractor trailers full of food, hot meals, and teddy bears for the unaccompanied minors. While Beck made it clear in interviews that they wanted a full repeal of DACA, Beck also mentioned his belief in the importance of helping these children. "Through no fault of their own, they are caught in political crossfire, and while we continue to add pressure on Washington and conform its course of lawlessness, we must also help," Beck said. "It is not either, or. it is both. We have to be active in the political game, and we must open our hearts."
As of 2017, Beck's Nazarene Fund had reportedly relocated 10,524 Christian refugees from northern Iraq and Syria to other host countries, including Australia, the United States, France, Slovakia, Greece, Lebanon, Brazil, and Canada. The fund's website notes 1,646 families have been evacuted from the ISIS ravaged region since its launch in 2014, and 45,000 people have received humanitarian aid as a or situation. of donations to Mercury One.