Former CNN, NBC Execs Want to ‘TAPP’ Palin for New Streaming Video Service

Mediaite ^ | March 11, 2014 | Matt Wilstein

[2ndDivisionVet]

With an appearance on Bloomberg TV Tuesday, Former CNN president Jon Klein and former NBC entertainment chairman Jeff Gaspin announced their new online streaming video venture called TAPP, short for “TV App.” As for the types of personalities the pair hopes to feature on the service? According to Klein, Sarah Palin is exactly the type of person they are looking for.

“We are not talking about specific talent,” Klein said in response to rumors that they have been in talks with Palin about the venture. “I will tell you that Sarah Palin is the kind of personality who has a massive social presence, and a core group of followers and supporters who hang on to her every word. That is exactly the characteristic that these channels are looking for.”

Similar to Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze.com, TAPP will consist of multiple channels and shows that users can stream online for somewhere in the $10/month range. “Everybody’s got someone, one person at least, that they would pay $10 per month to get more of,” Klein added. He envisions a world in which “everyone has a TAPP channel” the way anyone can have a YouTube channel today.

TAPP’s initial batch of investors includes Discovery Communications, Demarest Films and Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt.

Watch video below, via Bloomberg TV:

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[2ndDivisionVet]

What kind of executive puts a "moronic, irrelevant, has-been, washed-up, inconsequential, half-term Caribou Barbie" on their show?

[basil]

The kind who probably voted for what we’ve got now?

[Mr. K]

I hope she doesn’t

with their editorializing they will make her look bad

they have an agenda, and i think she knows it

At least I hope she does

[windsorknot]

My regard for Palin increases in direct proportion to the disdain that the left has for her.

[Dick Bachert]

Meanwhile, over at MSNBC...

[Terry L Smith]

These men see what Glenn Beck is doing, and want to have a chance to negate that, or neutralize it, via Alinsky.

As to the term, “Everybody got somebody that they would watch for $10.00 a month”, my cable/net provider costs are, at present, 15% of my monthly utilities, and being a Constitutionalist, I will not be funding any Democrat devils.

[Timber Rattler]

Now why would Sarah Palin want to associate herself with these two media hacks who not so long ago were among front ranks of the vile LSM PDS chorus?

[JudyinCanada]

Sarah should just speak to her own kind.

She is too guarded when speaking with her enemies, understandably so. Better that her enemies get their fix by eavesdropping when she’s speaking to her equals.

[lentulusgracchus]

(Art.) “We are not talking about specific talent,” Klein said in response to rumors that they have been in talks with Palin about the venture. “I will tell you that Sarah Palin is the kind of personality who has a massive social presence, and a core group of followers and supporters who hang on to her every word. That is exactly the characteristic that these channels are looking for.”

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They want to muzzle and silence her, rope her in then use contract clauses to shut her up and filter her ideas, manage her subject matter (this is where liberals always start with censorship: ground rules, and editorial control).

And above all, take her out of GOP national politics.

[Sirius Lee]

I see that Joe McGuinnss, the author who did the lie-per-sentence hit piece on Palin, died a painful death from cancer. I would be wiling to wager that Sarah will send prayers for his soul. She’s a bigger person than these leftards.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I just find it funny that they hate her and call her every name in the book, until they realize that she’s much more influential than their politicos are and can make them tons of money.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

It's likely that she'll have her own “channel”, and determine the content of that channel. There would be a great many other “channels” — just as there are on YouTube now. It's likely some of those other channels would spend a lot of time editorializing against Palin, or attempting to lampoon her. However, they'd also do that, if Palin doesn't get a channel.

[lentulusgracchus]

What kind of executive puts a "moronic, irrelevant, has-been, washed-up, inconsequential, half-term Caribou Barbie" on their show?

Hopefully, one who is on the "to-do list" of a guy who knows a guy.

[lulu16]

Wow. What an update. It would have been nice if he had asked for her forgiveness before he died. That might have eased his soul.

[lentulusgracchus]

It isn't about money. Not at all. It's about making sure (like they did with Clint Eastwood) that if she pops a memorable speech like Clint did at the RNC with the "Empty Chair Speech", that nobody sees or hears it -- or even hears about it.

That's what Mark Halperin was bragging to Charlie Rose about during the RNC ..... and he was right. Not 5 people in 100 ever saw the "Empty Chair Speech" in toto, unexpurgated, un-chopped-up. That's what Halperin said the Media Rats would do, to help Obama by shredding and destroying Romney's and Eastwood's messages.

[Moonman62]

According to Klein, Sarah Palin is exactly the type of person they are looking for.

Of course. The Big Government types are looking for material to be used against her.

[Democrat_media]

CNN executives want to make sure Sara Palin doesn't run for President so they'll write it in her contract that she can't run for office.

don't fall for it .Run for President Sarah Palin. The democrats/marxists are getting close to ending freedom and property rights so they'll take your money too. only way to stop democrats is to run Sarah Run

[Democrat_media]

yes ditto. i thought the same thing and posted something similar here

[nonaligned]

A desperate one?????

[beelzepug]

“...Sarah will send prayers for his soul. She’s a bigger person...

...than me. I’m not and I won’t.