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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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So Steyn paid for the studio himself, yet CRTV owns it? Steyn is stuck with the debt, but CRTV can ban him from the property he’s paying for?
On top of that, he’ll have some hefty legal bills at the end of this.
According to the document the studio was built at CRTVs expense.
I just canceled. Whatever else is going on at CRTV, they have the nicest customer service representative on the planet.
I misread it. Thanks.
Thanks, Righty!
Even someone as talented as Steyn needs time to adjust to a new medium. I suspect with another six months, he would have improved greatly.
I’ve been using huffduffer to convert video to mp3 podcast for a while now and I love it.
I remember that; wasn’t he on the first few “ricochet” podcasts? What happened?
@dtw5 I remember that; wasn’t he on the first few “ricochet” podcasts? What happened?
We could certainly use him. The preponderance of Never Trumpets on the podcasts is harshing my mellow. I can rarely finish listening…
I joined Ricochet when the “Long – Goldberg – Steyn” Podcast went behind the paywall. Must have 2011?
I think there was one more podcast after that.
No regrets, by the way…..
Two data points (apologies if already addressed):
1. On 2/24, Steyn posted this:
2. On 2/27, Steyn’s hand was bandaged.
Given the lawsuit timing, was there really a technical issue? If that was false, does CRTV have liability to Steyn or subscribers? Does the falsity (if so) create a fraud exception to any subscriber agreement, opening CRTV up to incidental and consequential damages (such as time lost repeatedly going back to the site in expectation of the missing programs being there)? Paging @salvatorepadula
Also, as the problems well predated the injury, he apparently did not get canned for hitting somebody.
I like Mark as a guest host, but Walter Williams will always be my favorite.
Maybe he tried to stop TPTB from tearing up his contract and his thumb got in the way.
Read the denial of TRO request. Not surprise the justification for the TRO is pretty weak.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Thanks.
He is awesome, too, and I would never switch him off. He hasn’t been on lately though, unless I just missed it.
Oooh, maybe Mark Steyn can join the cast of The Grand Tour (AKA Top Gear).
It was an online service. Purely streaming.
Reading the court’s denial decision there aren’t a lot of facts available about the contract dispute. The court makes little reference to the content of the term sheet.
A “binding term sheet” is intended to establish the existence of a contract subject to further negotiation and definitization. That is probably where the trouble started. There was a hitch in the negotiations and CRTV decided to cut bait on the contract rather than continuing negotiating the defined terms.
CRTV benefited greatly from having Mark under contract to promote their product and provide content thus the execution of a term sheet with work occurring before a fully negotiated contract document was completed. The basic outline of the agreement would have been in the term sheet — and certainly the court’s statement of facts suggest that they were — but there was enough left unsettled for there to be disagreement when they were working on some of the terms.
It will be interesting to know what term definitization created the dispute and why CRTV would prefer to unilaterally cancel the contract rather than continue the negotiations.
The court noted that CRTV had requested arbitration prior to the MSE/Steyn complaint. Arbitration may have been for the purpose of coming up with specific terms.
Thanks for the explanation.
Is it not unusual to proceed with such serious expenditures (the Steyn Show set and staff) and promotions before a definitive contract is established?
It’s difficult for me to imagine contractual demands which could not have been roughly foreseen at the time the show was green-lit. Does the possibility seem strange to y’all practiced lawyers?
Awesome. thank you. I’ll try it. Clipconverter has been killing me. It’s so malware-scary, until it died last month, I kept an old XP machine around that did nothing but clipconverter, Facebook and some peer-to-peers.
The “dirty” computer.
Isn’t “huffduff” a name for an old radar-like direction finder?
Apparently yes.
CRTV did the honorable thing and refunded my subscription fee in full.
That’s for sure!
yup.
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For me it’s not even related to President Trump.
I haven’t listened in a while, but I did start to get fed up with not having anyone on the other side of the debate most of the time.
Discussions where only one side is represented are no good.
I’ve heard it on other podcasts too (e.g. Cato) so it’s not unique to Ricochet, but it’s agonizing to have an objection to a point that goes unmade or a clarifying question that goes unasked merely because the panel is all in agreement and not trying very hard to persuade anyone that isn’t already on board.
e.g.
No, but there are clearly risks involved (as this dispute illustrates).
It will be more clear once (or if) we hear the specifics of the dispute. With that information it may make sense or seem incredibly stupid. It is amazing how new project exuberance can overcome sensible caution.
He’s probably retired.