Sigg’s news venture makes possible more expansion, including into cryptocurrency. A network spokesman, Mark Serrano, did not respond to numerous specific questions but said in an email: “The market for real, honest news is growing, and will continue to grow so long as the mainstream media continue to abandon any and all semblance of journalistic integrity.” Sigg did not respond to requests for comment. He has given large sums of money to Democrats. Sigg, whose criminal record includes a federal conviction for bank fraud, built his media business on weather news and outdoor sports. “They get it out everywhere,” Bannon said of Real America’s Voice, which he said gives him a cut of advertising revenue, though he declined to specify his earnings, saying, “I’m not doing this for money.”īannon has never shied away from idiosyncratic backers - whether hedge fund magnate Robert Mercer, whose family funded Breitbart, or exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui.īut his latest patron may be his most unusual yet. He credited the show’s reach to its little-known distribution partner. “Breitbart was very powerful, but this is five times more powerful,” Bannon said in an interview with The Washington Post following a recent show, which featured four candidates courting Trump’s base and a tech entrepreneur-turned-critic of coronavirus vaccines. The show, broadcast live six days a week from Bannon’s Capitol Hill townhouse, is the gathering point for the pro-Trump movement - with Bannon embracing the role of a wartime general leading followers into 2022, or what he calls the “valley of decision.” Its influence comes not just from the number of people watching, which is difficult to measure across platforms, but from the audience’s willingness to take political action, whether marching against vaccine mandates or running for local office. That market was left open when Fox News and Newsmax pulled back from topics most motivating to Trump’s base, said Bannon, such as resistance to vaccines, cries of voter fraud and unproven ideas about federal agents provoking the pro-Trump riot at the Capitol. That was the message from the top: ‘We’re a Trump propaganda network.’ That’s where the money was.”
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“We were told fairly regularly we were Trump propaganda,” said a former Real America’s Voice producer, who, like about a dozen other current and former employees of Sigg’s business, spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid professional reprisal. The rise of Real America’s Voice, built around Bannon and distant from the traditional power structures of cable television and talk radio, reveals how the country’s fractured media landscape has empowered unconventional actors following market incentives toward more and more extreme content. It brings his show into as many as 8 million homes hooked up to Dish satellite television, many in rural, conservative areas without reliable cable coverage. The network, Real America’s Voice, helped sustain Bannon despite his removal from YouTube, Spotify and other mainstream platforms. Sigg used “War Room” as a springboard for an expanded network of conservative hosts - bringing him the commercial opportunity he sought. More than two years later, the arrangement has paid off for both men. When Bannon launched his own talk show in the fall of 2019, calling it “War Room,” he quickly handed over its distribution to Sigg. The mogul, Robert Sigg, found news value in Bannon’s mission to the desert, which ultimately resulted in fraud charges. The coverage came from an upstart network run by a little-known media mogul in Colorado, a felon with a record of unpaid taxes and a family history marked by tragedy and violence. It wasn’t even Breitbart News, the far-right website Bannon once led, using it to help remake the GOP and elect Trump. Not many news outlets were paying attention - except for one focusing on his every word.
The former investment banker and Hollywood producer wanted cash in 2019 for his latest quest, to privately build President Donald Trump’s stalled border wall. Two years after being cast out of the White House, Steve Bannon spoke from a steep, dusty hill outside El Paso, asking for donations. Its owner is a Colorado media mogul with a checkered past. Bannon, is distributed by a fledgling news network called Real America's Voice.
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