Posted on 04/28/2016 4:09:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
What color is the sky in Bizarro World?
I have read articles and read his op eds and he seems to really be pro Trump! Whodathunk?
Whatever floats your leaky boat, though.
Having an hour or two of pro-Trump content peppered in amidst 22 hours of slanted anti-Trump character assassination, doesn't make Fox News pro-Trump, "fair and balanced", or anything else.
The entire Media has been relentlessly demonizing Donald Trump for months on end, and any American who is intellectually honest is well aware of that.
Now that even they have to acknowledge Trump's inevitability as the GOP nominee, Fox is starting to do their typical adjustment phase, wherein after a few weeks, they can pretend as if they were always a big fan of Mr. Trump's.
Nobody's buying it, but CNN's slightly more balanced appearance has probably helped them erode Fox's ratings. Any drop in Fox's ratings has been well-deserved.
Well done, CNN. Fox is no longer the default go-to news network for conservatives.
Vote Trump
I’ve been pleased with the non-Faux coverage as well.... however I’ve been chalking it up to the fact that during the GOP primaries they can afford to be fair since they don’t have a dog in the fight. Wait for the general elections, and they will revert, I imagine.
You know, as far as your curiosity as to “who is funding...” CR & LevinTV...it would not surprise me to find out that Mark himself is funding LevinTV all by himself.
I of course do not know this and have no way of knowing. And don’t that much care.
I worked selling high end teleproduction equipment in Hollywood in the 80’s and obliquely participated in the construction of numerous TV studios, edit suites and control rooms and outside bdcst trucks. Back then, a studio camera was a $60K affair with a $20K lens sitting on top of a $20K pedestal with a $150K/year camera dude running the thing....3 or 4 of them...running into a control room with tons of equipment, a director, a technical director, an audio guy..etc; etc; etc; With $250K of lights and gaffers and a lighting director.
Today, the cameras needed to produce LevinTV and the robotic heads they sit on and the 1/100th of the lighting needed to let modern cameras make picture are easily obtainable well under $100K. One guy running the switcher, an audio guy, maybe a director. That studio probably cost well under $500K to put together. I’d suspect he was able to put his set together 100% ready for show #1 for under $1 MM, all in, including construction salaries and facilities rent and server capacity for a year. (of course he does not have to pay a years salary for anyone all up front) He can write a check for that much and he might have leased all the gear. And he just signed a new 9 year contract, right? The startup costs could be in the neighborhood of $1 - $1.5 MM.
So if he gets 8,000 people, a mere 1% of his 8 MM listeners to subscribe to LevinTV @ $6 a month that’s $50K a month * 12 = $600K/year so he could pay himself a $200K salary and still be making 9% a year on his infrastructure investment which is not bad.
I got the math wrong on that...if Levin gets POINT 1% of his listenership to subscribe [8K subs / 8 MM audience] he can make the numbers I cited. At >>1%<<, 80K subscribers @ $6/month, you’re talking about a half-million/month cashflow which is huge. He could pay himself $100K a month, easily.
I of course do not know this and have no way of knowing. And don’t that much care.
I worked selling high end teleproduction equipment in Hollywood in the 80’s and obliquely participated in the construction of numerous TV studios, edit suites and control rooms and outside bdcst trucks. Back then, a studio camera was a $60K affair with a $20K lens sitting on top of a $20K pedestal with a $150K/year camera dude running the thing....3 or 4 of them...running into a control room with tons of equipment, a director, a technical director, an audio guy..etc; etc; etc; With $250K of lights and gaffers and a lighting director.
Today, the cameras needed to produce LevinTV and the robotic heads they sit on and the 1/100th of the lighting needed to let modern cameras make picture are easily obtainable well under $100K. One guy running the switcher, an audio guy, maybe a director. That studio probably cost well under $500K to put together. I’d suspect he was able to put his set together 100% ready for show #1 for under $1 MM, all in, including construction salaries and facilities rent and server capacity for a year. (of course he does not have to pay a years salary for anyone all up front) He can write a check for that much and he might have leased all the gear. And he just signed a new 9 year contract, right? The startup costs could be in the neighborhood of $1 - $1.5 MM.
So if he gets 8,000 people, a mere 1% of his 8 MM listeners to subscribe to LevinTV @ $6 a month that’s $50K a month * 12 = $600K/year so he could pay himself a $200K salary and still be making 9% a year on his infrastructure investment which is not bad.
Thanks for all the info, and it gives me a good sense of what was involved financially. My line of thought has been maybe some unknown funding for his ventures could explain Mark's behavior re Cruz, Trump and lots of other things.
thanks again!
Naah. I honestly do not think there’s any grand conspiracy nor hidden hand in the case of Mark Levin. I think he is totally sincere and passionate about wanting to elect a candidate whom he regards as a staunch conservative and he agonizes very deeply over the systematic destruction of Cruz by all the forces arrayed against Cruz (and Cruz himself) and what he believes is the squandered opportunity to elect Cruz. Equally, he is repelled by Trump and personally insulted by the dirtbomb Roger Stone threw at him. Which was stinky, but what isn’t this election cycle?
All that’s fine. But he has caught Beck disease and suddenly thinks of himself as a media titan with his TeeVee show or quasi-religious figure with his ideological purity and for some reason he thinks it’s interesting to repeat these views endlessly and with this particularly irritating device he now employs to the exclusion of any other having this constant argument with himself and a peanut gallery he makes up.
To me it is straight ahead irritation and the information and knowledge he possesses are all shoved by the wayside to the point where has nothing to impart other than his “act” which he thinks is cute. To me, it’s not, it’s a constant irritation. I still respect him deeply for his principled stand and vast knowledge and he is not IMO factually wrong about Trump. I just simply cannot stand his voice and the way he conducts his show. I would feel exactly the same way if someone was operating a loud power tool or a jackhammer in the next room. I’d massively prefer not to hear it.
I ditched cable 12 yrs ago...I read news...I don’t have to hear it. Stress is lower that way. Local news is all I listen to.
Might be part of the reason for FOX’s blonde bimbo trying to “mend fences” with Trump - he’s done what no one else has done; knocked FOX off its pedestal with a dose of reality.
I can’t believe I am actually posting this but as I passed CNN on the old telly last night, I stopped to watch a show called “The Eighties”. I thought, well here we go....Reagan will be slaughtered. It was actually very well done and fair. I am not sure I was more stunned by the fact I was watching CNN or that CNN was fair to Reagan!!
Some say Fox is anti Trump others say it is pro Trump. All I know for sure is it has become the Trump news network.......24/7 has proven too much for me. Fox news is barely on around here anymore.
He should “talk”... He is down 5.6%.
I often switch to CNN now...and when they get flakey, I’m back to OANN as I am now. All because of Kelly for me. Her Rachael Maddow haircut makes her head shape look like a praying mantis (just before it eats its mate). Levin, Fox, Krauthammer... My how they have all been chased from the closet.
Treat Trump badly get losing numbers. Any questions?
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