NEW CHANNEL: Dish Network will begin carrying TheBlaze, conservative radio talk show host Glenn Beck’s online network. Financial terms were not disclosed.
TUNING IN: TheBlaze will be available to Dish subscribers as part of its America’s Top 250 package or a la carte for $5 a month. It was set to launch on Dish on Wednesday. It will be available as a free preview for all Dish customers through Sept. 26.
THE BACKGROUND: Beck’s radio show currently attracts more than 8 million listeners per week, trailing only Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Michael Savage, according to Talkers, a magazine for the talk-show business. Dish is the nation’s third-largest provider of TV signals behind Comcast Corp. and DirecTV with about 14 million subscribers.
