Newsmax CEO: ‘We Are Not Actively Selling,’ Have No Desire to Be ‘Trump TV’
Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNewsmax may be focused on conservative audiences, but it has very liberal views of where its business can go in the future as an independent news operation.The top executive of the news outlet said the company intends to move forward on its own, and noted Newsmax has little desire to turn the network, which has seen its ratings pop since the presidential election, into a TV outlet focused largely on a forum for a post-White House Donald Trump.“Newsmax would never become ‘Trump TV,'” Christopher Ruddy, the CEO of Newsmax, told Variety in an interview Sunday evening. “We have always seen ourselves as an independent news agency, and we want to continue with that mission.