Underplayed Gems

The Young Turks (2002)

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Genre
talk show
Country
United States
Length
13 seasons, 586 episodes
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A group of hosts talk about American politics, world events, sports, and pop culture. They share their progressive viewpoints on live streams and television.

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The Young Turks (TYT) is an American progressive and left-wing populist sociopolitical news and commentary program live streamed on social media platforms YouTube and Twitch, and additionally selected television channels. TYT serves as the flagship program of the TYT Network, a multi-channel network of associated web series focusing on news and current events. TYT covers American politics, wars and conflicts around the world, sports, pop culture, and a wide array of other topics. The program was created by Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz and Dave Koller in 2002. Uygur is Turkish American and named the program after the Young Turks movement of the 20th century. Co-hosted by Uygur and Ana Kasparian, it is also often accompanied by various other in-studio contributors. The Young Turks began as a radio program that premiered on February 14, 2002, on Sirius Satellite Radio before launching a web series component in 2005 on YouTube, and then later Twitch; at some point it was also carried on Air America. In addition to being carried on Twitch and YouTube, it is available on Amazon Prime Direct, iTunes, Hulu, Roku, and on social media platforms Instagram, Facebook, and X. It has spawned two spin-off television series, one airing on Current TV from 2011 to 2013 and a second which debuted on Fusion in 2016 as a limited-run program developed to cover the 2016 United States presidential election. The Young Turks also served as the subject of a documentary, entitled Mad as Hell, which was released in 2014. The network has a channel on YouTube TV. For most of its existence, TYT relied on small grassroots financial contributions from its viewership to sustain itself as an independent news organization. However, in 2017 TYT sought to expand its media network and hire more staff through various venture capital fundraising efforts which raised $20 million. The Young Turks is the second longest-running online news and politics talk show (after The Alex Jones Show started in 1999). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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