My blog sibling here at Beliefnet John W. Kennedy drew my attention to something I hadn’t known about: The Right Network, whose backers include none other than that paragon of virtue, Kelsey Grammer.
The clip above gives some of the flavor of this new media outlet (which, for now, is bypassing traditional TV channels and using the Internet to get out its message.)
Actor Kelsey Grammer is an investor and public face supporting a new network that launched Wednesday with entertainment designed to appeal to political conservatives.RightNetwork, whose first series, “Running,” follows the fortunes of a couple of Tea Party-backed candidates for public office, is also trying a new model to establish itself. It is initially making programming available through video-on-demand services, the Internet and through mobile phones, bypassing the route of traditional TV networks with a spot on channel lineups.Investors hope that the support of a conservative audience that has made Fox News Channel and radio hosts such as Rush Limbaugh successful could also work for entertainment programming, said Kevin McFeeley, RightNetwork’s president.
“We feel the precedent has been set,” he said.
Grammer, the Emmy-winning star of “Frasier,” said the network represented a desire by him and some political friends “to stop allowing people who hate us to define us.”
“If you have NBC, ABC, you have entire networks flooded with a very particular point of view,” he said. “They won’t admit it, but it’s clearly the way it is. There’s plenty of room for us.”
You can find more at the link, along with information about the programming.
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