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The Mark Steyn Show Is No More
I just came across a bit of disappointing news this evening via SteynOnline: The Mark Steyn Show, which had been broadcast on CRTV since its inception on December 21, 2016, has been cancelled. Mark Steyn writes:
In less congenial telly news, today was perhaps the most sobering and humbling day since this poor old Canadian came to the United States many years ago. I had only been doing the show for a little over a month, and had hoped to be doing it for a long time to come. There is always a story between the lines, and everyone of course is free to speculate. I hope to be able to say more in the days ahead.
That’s too damn bad. It was an excellent show and I hope he finds another platform for it soon. In fact, it was my only reason for opening up a subscription to CRTV in the first place. Needless to say, I will not be renewing.
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If he had a contract through June, 2021, and CRTV broke it, he has every reason to be upset.
He has the video of his last show posted on his web site. I watched that show, and felt he was angry as his body language showed it. He had somehow injured his thumb or had it injured for him, and was in pain.
Mark Steyn refers back to Mr. LaRoche’s post at his website:
CRTV claims you can request a refund by emailing support@crtv.com.
I wasn’t aware he had one.
That shout-out made my week! Maybe my year!
I just realized it was twenty years ago – 1997 – when I first “discovered” Mark Steyn. He was writing for the Spectator at the time, and I read one of his articles after purchasing a copy at a London bookstore while on a visit. I liked him so much that I opened up a subscription shortly thereafter (and international subscriptions to the Spectator were rather expensive back then). Been hooked ever since.
Just requested a refund. I hope Steyn can find another home or just post TMSS online and I’ll gladly pay him directly for the world’s best doomsday stand-up.
This sounds like the thing that usually happens with the ultra-left: purges and counter-purges due to doctrinal deviations. I remember how Pacifica Broadcasting used to go through these kinds of things with one clique changing the locks and impeaching the other clique. Kinda funny and sad at the same time seeing it happening on the right.
Mark is the only guest host on Rush who doesn’t cause me to immediately switch off the radio. I’ve been mulling a CRTV subscription but guess I’ll save my money.
In the credits at the end of the latest episode of The Mark Steyn Show (which is an interview with Larry Arnn), it reads “Copyright Oak Hill Media & Hillsdale College.”
Is it there because Arnn was on the show, or has Steyn found a new business partner?
Mike La Roche! You da man!
(so jelly!)
Thanks, Mama Toad!
And he is a force to be feared. It isn’t just talent; he has worked hard to develop a personal philosophy and he cannot be manipulated.(except maybe by his kids or wife). Steyn is an example of what integrity looks like. It is not a character trait that is easy to possess, for it can sometimes come with a high price. He is one of the wittiest commentators today because he does not filter his observations to suit the current fashion.
Most people do not possess integrity because it is easier to go along in order to get along.
Here are the court documents.
I didn’t know they were producing the show in Vermont. He was probably just a few miles down the road from where I used to live – before I got the hell out of Vermont.
Love me some Steyn. But he spends a lot of time in court, doesn’t he?
Very odd. Can’t wait to hear CRTV’s reasons for cancelling the show so abruptly. My first thought was that it seemed a bit “off” to march in after Steyn left for the day to inform the crew. But then I got thinking how I’d feel if I had to fire Mark Steyn! He’d most likely argue his way out of it! Hahaha. Still, if it actually happened that way, seems a little underhanded.
Steyn’s the wittiest writer and speaker in the conservative movement, and his America Alone (2006) reads like prophecy today.
However, his TV show was not his best forum. First, it was necessarily scripted, which is not Steyn’s forte — too many stilted moments. Second, Steyn is the world’s greatest interviewee, but nothing special as an interviewer. Third, Steyn overestimated the overlap in the Venn diagram of those who share both an interest in Steynian conservative wit and Steynian musical passions.
Steyn will be back, but he needs to keep his twin passions segregated so his consumers are free to choose between the two.
Can anybody bring up that Feb 8th show that made the Defendant so angry that Mark was fired on the spot?
Oak Hill preexisted the split.
http://vtsos.lookupbook.net/oak-hill-media-inc-randolph-vt
Prior shows listed Oak Hill Media & CRTV.
I’d like to read the cross complaint – that is relatively thin stuff.
The TRO denial reads “Defendant has received a copy of Plaintiffs’ Complaint and has petitioned the court to order it sealed.”
Interesting.
Not sure what you mean.
Not sure if this is what you mean. Looks like best I can do is get the description.
via scrolling to the right on
https://wayback.archive.org/web/20170222072036/https://www.crtv.com/the-mark-steyn-show
Searching google cache for the URL for that episode https://www.crtv.com/video/the+mark+steyn+show+-+weeknight+show+-+episode+6
It says:
Maybe their concern was Mark triggering an attack like Charlie Hebdo with his out spoken views on jihadists. Defendants want their reply sealed? What reason? Maybe they didn’t want to provide the kind of security Mark needs.
Charlie Hebdo: Gun attack on French magazine kills 12 …
“Binding Term Sheet” would not fill me with confidence as Plaintiff’s counsel. And – twenty employees? Video production seems to be very labour-intensive!
MSE may have twenty total employees of which say ten are involved in the CRTV shows. The loss of CRTV revenue may affect the overall financial solvency of MSE and thus all twenty.
Note the difference on how standing is treated here (MSE has no standing to raise its employee interests) vs. the cases of injunctions against the Trump order on aliens (states and universities allowed to raise all sorts of speculative injuries to imagined people two steps removed).
I don’t know about TV media, but my old greeting card publisher puts his own copyright on everything he prints, even though the individual artist is the copyright holder of the art. The media company might have something about it in their contracts?
Congratulations, Mike!
I was clearly led to believe that Steyn was supposed to be a major part of Ricochet (whatever “in which he is participating” means) . This is at least 50% of the reason I joined in the first place. I see a trend developing.
But I am happy. I have zero time to sit in front of a TV. From what I’ve seen, nothing he has put on air couldn’t be a podcast. I can get other things done with MP3s and headphones. So I hope he is pulled back into this direction or at least simulposts to audio.