Report: Glenn Beck Downsizes In NYC

Glenn Beck’s Internet and television channel TheBlaze has quietly downsized its New York production operation in an ongoing shift to make Dallas, Texas, its primary production hub, Capital New York has learned.

The only show still in production at the network’s Manhattan offices is “The Buck Sexton Show,” hosted by a former cohost of TheBlaze's defunct “Real News” show.

The changes at the New York office are coming amidst major disruptions at the company. In June TheBlaze's C.E.O., Betsy Morgan, departed after serving in the position for six months. Morgan had replaced Chris Balfe, Beck’s right-hand man for 12 years, who left in December and is now said to be working on a digital startup. Soon afterwards, former president and chief content officer Joel Cheatwood also exited to join Balfe in the venture.

Kraig Kitchin is currently serving as interim C.E.O. at the company, and a replacement has not yet been named.

The move out of New York has been a slow trip south rather than a one-time relocation. Over the past year, most of the New-York-based shows appearing on Beck’s conservative television network, like "Real News" and "Liberty Treehouse," were shuttered. Subsequent shows replacing them on the network’s lineup were launched in Dallas, not New York.

Now, almost every television show produced for TheBlaze is filmed out of a 72,000 square foot studio in Dallas owned by Mercury Radio Arts, Beck’s media company. The Dallas studio is where Beck, TheBlaze’s founder, records television and radio shows that make up much of its regular programming.

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