Newsmax TV

Newsmax TV is a United States cable news channel created by Newsmax Media. It mostly features programs with a conservative point of view. The network's conservative-leaning competition include the Fox News Channel and One America News Network. The channel carries a news/talk format during the day, carrying encore runs of those programs and acquired documentaries and films at night. The station has five broadcast affiliates in Wichita, Kansas, KGPT-CD5, in Kansas City, Kansas, KCKS-LD, Harrison, Arkansas, K26GS-D, Topeka, Kansas on WROB-LD and in Boise, Idaho, KRID-LD. Now available on OTA channel 9.1 in Atlanta, GA.

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Newsmax Media

Newsmax Media, commonly called Newsmax, is a conservativeAmerican news media organization founded by Christopher Ruddy and based in West Palm Beach, Florida. It operates the news website Newsmax.com, publishes the Franklin Prosperity Report and Newsmax magazine, and runs a conservative cable news channel Newsmax TV.

History

Ruddy started Newsmax.com on September 16, 1998, supported by a group of investors, including the family of the late Central Intelligence Agency Director William J. Casey. Later, Richard Mellon Scaife, Ruddy's former employer at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review invested in the fledgling company. One of the initial board members was author James Dale Davidson who edited a financial newsletter. Davidson's co-editor, Lord Rees-Mogg, former editor of The Times and Vice Chair of the BBC, later became chairman of Newsmax.

Other news figures who later joined the Newsmax board included Arnaud de Borchgrave, the longtime Newsweek chief correspondent who also serves as editor-at-large of United Press International (UPI) and Jeff Cunningham, former publisher of Forbes. Admiral Thomas Moorer, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Chief of Naval Operations during the Vietnam War, also served as one of the company's founding board members. Former United States Secretary of State and Nixon and Ford administration Chief of Staff, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. served as special adviser to NewsMax.