Donald Trump’s media The company is now hiring for its upcoming streaming TV service, posting an ad on job boards for creators looking to help produce Trump’s MAGAfied answer to Netflix, Hulu and Disney+.
In the announcement posted Wednesday, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) said it was looking for a content development manager to create programming for the company’s new streaming service, TMTG+. The channel, the announcement reads, will be “a ‘Big Tent’ platform offering a wide range of entertainment rooted in free speech.” The job description promises that the service will provide “a wide variety of unscripted, scripted, and original content.”
A successful candidate will “generate and develop internal concepts for original unscripted content, short series episodes and specials”, keep “abreast of developing trends on the networks” and “keep abreast of emerging talent and upcoming unscripted programming.”
A TMTG spokesperson did not immediately respond to rolling stoneThursday’s request for comment, which included inquiries about planned programming. But the announcement suggests that TMTG+ could house anything from scripted dramas, series and sitcoms to unscripted talk shows, current affairs shows, “documentaries” – or even a return to TV- apprentice-style reality.
In short, the company says it wants you to be able to “MAGA-and-chill” soon.
Trump announced in October that he was launching TMTG, a multi-pronged “unwoke” media outlet for a company that included a social media network — the ever-floundering Truth Social — and other pro-Trump media properties aimed at to counter a media outlet that the president believed was biased against him.
Trump announced in October that he was launching TMTG, the now $1.7 billion-valued media conglomerate that owns both the TMTG+ streaming channel and Truth Social, an app the former president hoped could compete with the most major social media networks that hung him in the wake. of the Capitol insurrection.
If TMTG+ launches, the network would provide a steady supply of Trump-controlled media which, along with pro-Trump networks such as One America News, would bolster the twice-impeached former president’s campaign if he chooses to run. again in 2024.
It would also satisfy Trump’s interest in for-profit television. For the past few years, Trump has appeared to express some jealousy over the lucrative deal former President Barack Obama and ex-first lady Michelle Obama struck with popular streaming service Netflix. According to a former Trump White House official with direct knowledge of the matter, the then-45th president sometimes complained that heand not Obama, was the one who deserved the big Hollywood contracts because – in Trump’s estimation – he knew how to “get grades” better than Obama, thanks in large part to his hosting time The apprentice. Indeed, Trump spent an uncomfortable part of his term openly complaining about what he dubbed the “Obama Netflix.”
But it’s unclear how confident Trump – who still has his day job as king of the Republican Party – is in his own business these days. Beginning in February, the ex-president began privately demanding to know “what the fuck is going on” with Truth Social, shouting and swearing on the phone at confidants about the humiliating deployment of his social media application. (For his part, Trump barely used his own app.)
In addition to its interest in original programming, Wednesday TMTG+ also announced for a “content acquisition professionalwhich can help the channel “identify content for licensing, source ownership, and negotiate distribution rights” for the platform.
A investor presentation filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission when TMTG made its initial public offering in the fall of 2021 gave early indications that the company was aiming to diversify into video streaming. The company has named producer Scott St. John as the future programming lead for TMTG+. Like former President Trump, St. John worked on an NBC game show as a producer on Agree or disagree and America’s Got Talent.
TMTG estimated a market for its streaming channel at 10 million potential subscribers, a far cry from the hundreds of millions of subscribers that media giants like Netflix and Disney+ have, but which represented an estimated “long-term revenue opportunity”. to billions of dollars. dollars, depending on the presentation.
