Glenn Beck

At 60 years old, Glenn Beck has this physical status:

Career

Beck founded Mercury Radio Arts in 2002 as the umbrella over his radio, publishing, internet, and live show interests. In 2002, Beck founded Mercury Radio Arts, naming it after the Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre, which provided live radio broadcasts in the 1930s. Beck's company produces all of Beck's shows, including his eponymous radio show, books, live stage performances, and his official website.

In 1983, he went to Corpus Christi, Texas, to work at Radio station KZFM. Beck was hired in mid-1985 by KZFM to be the lead DJ for the morning-drive radio show at WRKA in Louisville, Kentucky. Captain Beck and the A-Team were on display for four hours during the week. Beck was known as a "new up-and-coming" guy. The display was not political, and it contained the typical off-color antics of the period: juvenile pundits, pranks, and impersonations. Beck dropped to third place in the market, and the show was suspended in 1987 after a controversy with WRKA's leadership.

Beck was recruited by Phoenix Top-40 station KOY-FM, then known as Y-95, a month later. Beck was co-hosting a local "morning zoo" event with Arizona native Tim Hattrick. Beck developed a rivalry with local pop radio station KZP and station's morning host Bruce Kelly during his time on Y-95. Beck drew retaliation from the staff at Y-95, with practical jokes and publicity stunts mocking her latest miscarriage. Beck resigned from Y-95 to a job in Houston at KRBE, the acronym that stands for "power 104." Beck was fired in 1990 due to poor ratings.

Beck then moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where he ranked as B104, the city's top 40 station. He partnered with Pat Gray, a morning DJ, while still working on site. Beck was arrested and jailed for speeding in his DeLorean during his time on B104. Beck was "fully out of it" when a station manager went to bail him out, according to a former employee. The two men spent six months in Baltimore, preparing their next move. When Gray and Beck were fired, they were still in prison. Beck and Gray first joined WKCI-FM (KC101), a Top-40 radio station in New Haven, Connecticut, in early 1992. After Beck and Gray mocked a Chinese-American caller who felt offended by a comedy segment by staging a gong sound effect and making executive producer Alf Gatineau mock a Chinese accent, WKCI apologised. Activist organizations have sprung up demonstrations following the incident. When Gray left the show to Salt Lake City, Beck joined co-host Vinnie Penn for co-honor. Beck was told that his deal would not be renewed at the end of 1999, at the time of 1998.

The Glenn Beck Program first aired on WFLA (AM) in Tampa in 2000 and took the afternoon time slot from eighth to first place in less than a year. Premiere Radio Networks premiered the program nationally on 47 stations in January 2002. The show then moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where it was broadcast from WPHT's new flagship station. Premiere Radio Networks was extending Beck's deal, according to The New York Times on November 5, 2007. It had hit over 280 terrestrial stations as well as XM Satellite by May 2008. With over six and a half million listeners, it was ranked 4th in the nation. Beck was ranked fourth in the ratings as of July 2013, behind Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Dave Ramsey.

Beck's Headline News announced in January 2006 that the show "headline News" would be hosted in the company's latest prime-time block Headline Prime Minister's. Glenn Beck's show, simply named Glenn Beck, aired on weeknights. The show was described as "an unexpected glance at the day's news starring his often amusing perspective," according to CNN Headline News. Beck had the second largest audience after Nancy Grace during his time at CNN-HLN. Beck received the Marconi Radio Award for Network Syndicated Personality of the Year in 2008.

Beck will join the Fox News Channel in October 2008, leaving CNN Headline News. Beck hosted Glenn Beck, as well as a weekend version, after moving to the Fox News Channel in January 2009. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was one of his first guests on the Fox News Channel's "At Your Beck and Call" series. As of September 2009, Beck's show on CNN, MSNBC, and HLN attracted more viewers than any three of the competing time slot shows combined.

His show's high ratings did not appear without controversy. Beck's use of "distorted or inflammatory rhetoric," according to Washington Post's Howard Kurtz, complicated the channel's and journalists' attempts to debunk White House claims that Fox is not really a news group. Analyst Andrew Tyndall reiterated these views, saying that Beck's incendiary style had "created "a real crossroads for Fox News," adding, "they're right on the brink of losing their image as a news company."

Beck's production company, Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts, announced in April 2011 that he would "transition off of his daily schedule" on Fox News. His last day at Fox was announced on June 30. FNC and Beck have announced that he would collaborate with Fox News and its digital properties to produce a range of projects for Fox News and its digital properties. "His [Beck's] goals were different from our objectives," Fox News head Roger Ailes later referred to Beck's entrepreneurialism and political movements activism, saying, "His [Beck's] objectives were different from our ones." I need people to be focusing on a daily television show." On June 30, 2011, Beck recapped the show's success and said, "This show has become a movement." It's not a television show, and it doesn't have to be on television anymore. It belongs to your household. It's in your neighborhoods. Beck pointed out that his final show was broadcast live in response to skeptics who said he had been shot. He did an interview on his new GBTV internet television channel right after the show.

Beck's Fox News one-hour show ended on June 30, 2011, and a new two-hour show, TheBlaze TV, launched on September 12, 2011 as a subscription-based internet TV network. Beck's first year of operation, according to a subscription-based model, he was expected to earn $27 million. When subscriptions surpassed 300,000. Eventually, it was increased to $40 million by The Wall Street Journal. TheBlaze TV network would begin carrying TheBlaze TV on September 12, 2012. TheBlaze is now available on more than 90 television broadcasters, with eleven of them being in the national top 25.

Mercury Ink is a publishing imprint of Mercury Radio Arts, and was founded by Glenn Beck in 2011 as the publishing imprint of Mercury Radio Arts. Mercury Ink began in 2011 and sells adult and young adult books as well as non-fiction. Included in the book collection are books written by Glenn Beck, authors, and Mercury Ink's President Richard Paul Evans, as well as New York Times best seller Richard Paul Evans.

Beck has risen to the top of the charts. As of 2010, the New York Times Bestseller List in four distinct segments includes Hardcover Non-Fiction, Paperback Non-Fiction, Hardcover Fiction, and Children's Picture Books.

In Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans, Beck has a chapter giving tips.

Beck has visited American cities twice a year, most recently presenting a one-man stage show. His stage performances are a mixture of stand-up comedy and inspirational speaking. Beck's live performance, according to Salon magazine's Steve Almond, "a man who weds the operatic impulses of the demagogue to the tense mutterings of the conspiracy theorist." Around 350 movie theaters around the country showcased a show from the Beck 08. Unelectable Tour – The Bee is a book that was published in a bookshop.

In over 440 theaters, the Companion Sense Comedy Tour's final performance was simulcast. In recent years, the performances have attracted 200,000 viewers.

Beck held a series of rallies in March 2003, which he dubbed Glenn Beck's Rally for America, in favor of troops deployed for the forthcoming Iraq war. Beck hosted the 2007 Toyota Tundra "Stadium of Fire" in Provo, Utah, on July 4, 2007. The American Freedom Foundation has sponsored LaVell Edwards Stadium on the Brigham Young University campus. Beck delivered the keynote address at the NRA convention in Louisville, Kentucky, in May 2008.

The mayor of Beck's hometown, Mount Vernon, Washington, announced in late August 2009 that he would honor Beck with the Key to the City, designating September 26, 2009 as "Glenn Beck Day." The city council voted unanimously to remove itself from the award due to local resistance. The 850-seat McIntyre Hall was sold out, but an estimated 800 protesters and supporters gathered outside the building. Around 7,000 people attended the Evergreen Freedom Foundation's "Take the Field with Glenn Beck" at Seattle's Safeco Field earlier that day.

Beck produced "The Christmas Sweater: A Return to Redemption" in December 2009. In January and February 2010, Beck and Fox News host Bill O'Reilly joined several towns to tour many cities in a live stage show dubbed "The Bold and Fresh Tour 2010." The January 29 show was shot and broadcast to movie theaters around the country.

At the USANA Amphitheatre in West Valley City, Utah, Beck produced and hosted a one-night stage performance called Man in the Moon. In August 2013, the amphitheater sold out all 20,000 of its seats and was announced on television and DVD. From the beginnings of the Book of Genesis to the first moon landing, the story was told from the point of view of the moon. The moon is the story's narrator.

Beck created Mercury One, a non-profit organization that is meant to sustain itself through its entrepreneurialism without the need for grants or donations in 2011. Beck began designing a clothing collection to be sold to the charity in early 2011, and Mercury One began selling the luxurious clothing line labeled 1791.com on its website. American Mojo of Lowell, Massachusetts, manufactured the clothing in the line's eleven-piece inaugural collection.

Beck, along with Utah Senator Mike Lee and Texas Representative Louie Gohmert, announced in July that they, along with Utah Senator Mike Lee and Texas Representative Louie Gohmert, will travel to the United States-Mexico border with his charity group Mercury One. For the unaccompanied minors, they will have tractor trailers packed with food, hot meals, and teddy bears. Although Beck made it clear in interviews that they wanted a complete repeal of DACA, Beck also spoke about the importance of supporting these children. "They are caught in political wrangling, and while we continue to press Washington and change its course of lawlessness," Beck explained. "It is not either or not." It's both. We must be involved in the political game, and we must open our hearts."

According to reports, Beck's Nazarene Fund had relocated 10,524 Christian refugees from northern Iraq and Syria to other host countries, including Australia, France, Slovakia, Greece, Lebanon, Brazil, and Canada. According to the fund's website, 1,646 families have been evacuated from the ISIS-ravaged area since its inception in 2014, and 45,000 people have received humanitarian assistance as a result of donations to Mercury One.

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