All successful TV programmers have some mercenary in them, of course, but even by those standards, Ruddy is extreme. “In this day and age, people want something that tends to affirm their views and opinions,” Ruddy told me in an interview. Other possibilities for the president to cash in on his stature include creating a new Trump TV network from scratch, either as a television broadcast channel, a package of online video or even a way to direct cash into the Trump family political operation. You could imagine executives at Comcast and AT&T taking their time to make a deal with Trump TV. And Ruddy told me Newsmax is still investing.

Source: bd News24 November 30, 2020 03:56 UTC