The Young Turks
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| legal form | Media network |
| Seat | USA , Los Angeles |
| Branch | media |
| Website | https://tytnetwork.com/ |
The Young Turks is an American left-wing liberal media network. TYT started out as a talk show. The first broadcasts were broadcast on the radio in 2002 , and from 2005 onwards, Internet broadcasting began . The recording studio is located in Los Angeles . The network now hosts a number of programs with different moderators and focuses.
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The show is moderated by Cenk Uygur (* 1970), who is originally from Istanbul in Turkey . The term Young Turks means in English (like Young Turks in German) according to the American Heritage Dictionary as much as " young progressive or rebellious member of an institution, movement or political party " or " young person rebelling against authority ".
The two and a half hour program is divided into three main segments. In the first two hours, current developments in American politics are discussed. In particular, it reports on legislative procedures, plans by the President and individual MPs. Also entertainment issues to be addressed. The broadcast ends with a half-hour “Postgame” segment, which can only be seen by paying subscribers. Some of the participants in this segment tell from their lives, some other stories from the second segment of the show are discussed.
The program represents liberal-progressive views. It is close to the democratic party , but mostly its own standpoints that deviate from the political mainstream are discussed and adopted. They also criticize the bribery of politicians and support "Wolf-PAC", an organization against corruption . They are currently supporting the founding of the Justice Democrats coalition within the Democratic Party, which is supposed to replace the so-called 'political establishment' (politicians like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ) with politicians like Bernie Sanders , who do not accept campaign donations from large donors.
distribution
The Young Turks claimed to be the first radio newscast to be broadcast in parallel as Internet television. The video recording is shown live and is then available as a stream on the website for a day . On the following day, excerpts from the program are published on the company's own YouTube channel. In October 2009 the channel exceeded the limit of 150 million views.
The regular airtime of two hours is free to receive. The post game segment is reserved for paying members. A podcast is also offered: paying members have the option of downloading the podcast of the entire show, while non-members have excerpts from the show of varying lengths every day.
From December 2011 to January 2013, the program was also broadcast on cable TV on Current TV. This was announced by Cenk Uygur and the founder of Current TV, Al Gore , in September 2011. After Current TV was sold to Al-Jazeera in January 2013, the show was canceled the following August to replace it with a "news show with a slightly more neutral tone".
In November 2010, the broadcast on the radio ended. Since then, the program can only be received on the Internet.
history
In the mid-1990s, Cenk Uygur began his radio career on a local station in Miami . He made friends with Ben Mankiewicz , the presenter of a program there. Uygur was hired by MSNBC and hosted a successful show. However, constant criticism of the government soon got him into trouble. After he did not follow an invitation to moderate his criticism, his show was canceled. He had previously refused a sum of money that he had been offered for it, which he did not want to specify in the program. In February 2002 he decided to start his own talk show and broadcast it on an open channel . He had run this some time earlier under the name The Young Turk . For the new show, he hired Mankiewicz, a childhood friend David Koller, and Jill Pike. In addition, several interns were hired, three of which are now permanent: Ana Kasparian , Jayar Jackson and Jesus Godoy.
The Young Turks has been on the Internet since 2005 . In the same year there was a 99 hour broadcast, " Live, On Air Filibuster ". The show dealt with Samuel Alito's nomination for Supreme Court Justice. In order to relieve the regular moderators, the show was moderated by Thom Hartmann, Mike Malloy, Bob Kincaid, Brad Friedman and Peter B. Collins, among others.
In September 2008, Mankiewicz (at short notice) and Pike left the show. Ana Kasparian then co-hosted the pop culture segment of the show.
TYT Network
The Young Turks have gradually expanded their activities and are now showing a number of show formats with a variety of topics. The programs are collectively called the TYT Network .
Selection of well-known guests
- Politicians: Jimmy Carter , Edward Kennedy , John Kerry , Nancy Pelosi , Barney Frank , Bernie Sanders , Elizabeth Warren
- Media: Katie Couric , Brian Williams , Lou Dobbs , Jack Cafferty
- Pop culture: MC Hammer , Perez Hilton , Amber Lee Ettinger
- other people: Alan Greenspan , Gore Vidal , Jesse Jackson , Paul Krugman , Noam Chomsky , Sam Harris
Awards and nominations
The Young Turks won the 2009 Podcast Award in the Political category and the 2009 Mashable Open Web Award for Best Political News Site. At the 2011 Webby Awards , The Young Turks won the People's Voice award in the News and Politics category.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Young Turks and the TYT Network . In: tytnetwork.com , accessed November 18, 2012.
- ↑ The Young Turks: Wolf PAC Call for Volunteers - Get Money Out of Politics! April 7, 2013, accessed February 4, 2017 (0:09 - 1:00).
- ↑ Progressive launch of 'Justice Democrats' to counter party's 'corporate' legislators. Retrieved February 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Young Turks' Cenk Uygur Headed To Current TV ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , huffingtonpost.com, September 20, 2011
- ↑ By Ryan Faughnder: 'The Young Turks' host Cenk Uygur bets on Web after Current TV. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
- ↑ To Internet TV Pioneer Says He's Well on the Way to 'World Domination' , tytnetwork.com, September 27, 2016
- ^ The Right Stuff from a Lefty Trio ( Memento April 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) businessweek.com, February 7, 2006
- ^ Shows - TYT Network . In: TYT Network.com . November 17, 2014. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
- ↑ 2009 Podcast Awards Winners . December 12, 2009. Retrieved December 14, 2009.
- ^ Cashmore, Pete: OPEN WEB AWARDS 2009: The Winners . Mashable . December 16, 2009. Retrieved January 17, 2010.
- ↑ 15TH ANNUAL WEBBY AWARDS NOMINEES & WINNERS . Archived from the original on April 14, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 11, 2012.
