TYT: Cenk Uygur Sets Out to Take Down Traditional Television [View All]

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There was a great write-up on TYT in the magazine Fast Company (circulation 750,000):



It includes some fun quotes from Cenk, some very interesting financial numbers never before made public and also some exciting news on future plans. Here's an excerpt:

...I look around for a teleprompter. There isn't one. No writers either. Uygur watches the day's video clips for the first time during commercial breaks, seconds before he discusses them on-air.

Uygur doesn't look like a rebel, but there is something revolutionary going on here. Roughly 450,000 people watch The Young Turks on YouTube alone; thousands more in the precious 18-to-35 demo listen on Sirius Satellite Radio and through the TYT Web site, making it competitive with, say, MSNBC's Morning Joe (382,000 viewers a day in September), or CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight (616,000). And that, says Uygur, is only the beginning of a campaign "to take down television."

"When I watch TV, I see robots," he says. "We're not robots; we're people." On a show touching on health-care reform and Senator Max Baucus, Uygur proclaimed, "The mainstream media and the politicians who do these tricks and the media who cover for them -- guess what? You're f*d. We're coming for you. We're coming to your house."

..What if a real television network wants to scoop up TYT? "It would have to coexist with what we have," Uygur says. Cable news is welcome to syndicate its content, but TYT won't shut down the YouTube channel for the old Goliath of cable news. Instead, Uygur says, "we're going to pick their pockets."

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