Compound Media
{{short description|American streaming media platform}}
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Compound Media (formerly The Anthony Cumia Network) was an American subscription-based platform for audio and video podcasts. It was launched as The Anthony Cumia Network in 2014 by radio personality Anthony Cumia, who began hosting The Anthony Cumia Show on it after leaving SiriusXM. The network subsequently added more shows, including those hosted by Bill Schulz, Joanne Nosuchinsky, Michael Malice, Kevin Brennan, Don Jamieson, Chrissie Mayr, Gavin McInnes, and Geno Bisconte.{{cite web|url=https://www.compoundmedia.com/on-demand/all|title=Compound Media: On Demand|publisher=Compound Media|accessdate=December 20, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.compoundmedia.com/archives/all|title=Compound Media: Archives|publisher=Compound Media|accessdate=December 20, 2022}} It relaunched as Compound Media in 2016.{{cite AV media |date= May 9, 2016 |title= TACS 358 |trans-title= The Anthiny Cumia Show |type= Video |language= en |url= https://www.compoundmedia.com/shows/all/5787 |access-date= December 25, 2022 |publisher= Compound Media }}
History
=Background=
File:Anthony Cumia in October 2021.png
On July 3, 2014, radio personality Anthony Cumia was fired by the satellite radio provider SiriusXM after he posted a series of tweets described by SiriusXM as "racially-charged and hate-filled". The tweets were about a black woman who Cumia said had punched him after objecting to him taking pictures of her in Times Square in New York City.{{Cite magazine |last=Sanneh |first=Kelefa |date=September 19, 2022 |title=Shane Gillis's Fall and Rise |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/26/shane-gillis-fall-and-rise |access-date=December 24, 2022 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Leopold |first=Todd |date=July 4, 2014 |title='Opie & Anthony's' Anthony Cumia fired over tweets |url=https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/04/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/anthony-fired-tweets-opie-and-anthony/index.html |access-date=December 23, 2022 |website=CNN |language=en}} At the time of his firing, Cumia gave his blessing for his radio co-hosts, Gregg "Opie" Hughes and Jim Norton of Opie and Anthony, to continue broadcasting without him, acknowledging the pair's obligation to fulfill their contracts.{{Cite web |last=Kaplan |first=Don |date=July 8, 2014 |title=Anthony Cumia confirms he'll launch new Internet-based show from his home after SiriusXM firing |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/anthony-cumia-hit-web-show-siriusxm-article-1.1859134 |access-date=December 23, 2022 |website=New York Daily News}} Hughes and Norton began their new show, Opie with Jim Norton, on July 14 before the channel was renamed from The Opie and Anthony Channel to SiriusXM Talk.[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/opie-anthony-host-i-absolutely-718265 'Opie & Anthony' Co-Host: 'I Absolutely Do Not Believe That Anthony Should've Been Fired']. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved on July 14, 2014.
On July 8, 2014, Cumia announced the launch of his new audio and video podcast The Anthony Cumia Show on his new on-demand streaming media platform The Anthony Cumia Network, with subscribers paying monthly or annual fees to access content.{{cite web|url=https://www.compoundmedia.com/about-us/|title= Compound Media – About Us|publisher=Compound Media|accessdate=August 23, 2017}} Cumia had occasionally broadcast live video streams from his custom built basement studio at his Roslyn Heights, New York home on UStream named Live From the Compound from 2012 to 2014, initially as a hobby and were casual in nature.{{cite journal |title=Online with No Bosses and No Rules: It's the Anthony Cumia Show|date=November 1, 2014|first=Troy|last=Dreier|journal=Streaming Media}} In the wake of his firing, Cumia said, he "was able to just get servers and be able to feed that show out to the public without having to start from scratch", allowing him to launch within weeks.
=Launch and developments=
On August 4, 2014, The Anthony Cumia Show began airing, Monday through Thursday. During the opening months some shows aired from Cumia's basement studio, by his home bar, or in his garden.{{cite web|url=http://theinterrobang.com/the-anthony-cumia-show-is-now-the-anthony-cumia-network-first-new-show-announced/|title=The Anthony Cumia Show is Now The Anthony Cumia Network: First New Show Announced - The Interrobang|date=May 26, 2015|publisher=}} In November 2014, Cumia said the network had over 40,000 paid subscribers.
On March 10, 2015, the Legion of Skanks (Big Jay Oakerson, Dave Smith, and Luis J. Gomez) hosted a podcast after The Anthony Cumia Show. Starting in June 2015 subscribers also gained access to the Legion of Skanks, making it the first podcast to join The Anthony Cumia Network full-time. The show aired on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 9pm. As Gomez described it in 2016, "When you come to watch the Legion of Skanks show, you should be hearing racist, sexist, offensive shit. If you're upset about that, don't watch the show." The show announced on May 16, 2016, that it would be leaving the network May 31.{{cite web|url=https://theinterrobang.com/legion-skanks-podcast-leaving-anthony-cumia-network/|title=Legion of Skanks Podcast Leaving The Anthony Cumia Network|publisher=The Interrobang|date=May 17, 2016|last= Tressler|first= Bill |access-date=December 22, 2022}}
Gavin McInnes launched The Gavin McInnes Show{{cite web |last=Mosendz |first=Polly |date=June 10, 2015 |title=Former Sirius XM Host Anthony Cumia Hires Gavin McInnes |url=http://www.newsweek.com/former-sirius-xm-host-anthony-cumia-hires-notoriously-controversial-media-341865 |website=Newsweek |publisher=}} on the network on June 15, 2015, airing Monday through Thursday.{{cite web |last=Houpt |first=Simon |date=August 18, 2017 |title=Everything inside Gavin McInnes |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/gavin-mcinnes-path-to-the-far-rightfrontier/article36024918/ |access-date=December 23, 2022 |website=The Globe and Mail}} The idea for the Proud Boys, which McInnes founded, originated in "the Compound", Cumia's mansion, around 2016.{{Cite web |last=Spiegelman |first=Ian |date=August 27, 2022 |title=Is Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes in Federal Custody? |url=https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/is-proud-boys-founder-gavin-mcinnes-in-federal-custody/ |access-date=December 24, 2022 |website=Los Angeles Magazine |language=en-US}} Cumia has said that it began as a prank on a Compound Media employee that "mutated" and "it was never supposed to go any further than that". Men associated with Compound Media met at New York City bars and the Proud Boys were formed at those meetings, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.{{Cite web |title=Proud Boys |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/proud-boys |access-date=July 7, 2023 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}} In monologues on his show, McInnes publicized the Proud Boys and laid out the group's ideology of Western chauvinism.{{Cite news |last=Empson |first=Olivia Rose |last2=Empson |first2=Olivia |date=October 23, 2022 |title=Penn State students outraged over invitation to far-right Proud Boys founder |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/23/penn-state-proud-boys-gavin-mcinnes-speaker |access-date=July 7, 2023 |issn=0261-3077}} He praised right-wing violence and regularly used racial slurs.{{Cite web |last=Greig |first=Finlay |date=October 1, 2020 |title=Gavin McInnes: who is the founder of neo-fascist group Proud Boys and co-founder of Vice magazine? And his links to Scotland |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/gavin-mcinnes-who-is-the-founder-of-neo-fascist-group-proud-boys-and-co-founder-of-vice-magazine-and-his-links-to-scotland-2989805? |website=The Scotsman}} Among his guests were far-right figures Milo Yiannopoulos, Richard Spencer, Jason Kessler, Christopher Cantwell, Mike Cernovich, Faith Goldy, Roosh V, and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.{{Cite magazine |last=Simons |first=Seth |title=The Comedy Industry Has a Big Alt-Right Problem |magazine=The New Republic |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/161200/alt-right-comedy-gavin-mcinnes-problem |access-date=December 27, 2022 |issn=0028-6583}} He also mingled with comedians considered more mainstream.
In 2016, The Anthony Cumia Network relaunched as Compound Media. Redbar Radio, hosted by Mike David, first aired on the network on November 2, 2016. The show then aired every Friday at 4pm for eleven weeks.{{Cite news|url=https://twitter.com/redbarradio/status/821410213333004288|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170117181035/https://twitter.com/redbarradio/status/821410213333004288|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 17, 2017|title=Mike from Red Bar on Twitter: "Keith the Cop told me I was not allowe…|date=January 17, 2017|work=archive.is|access-date=December 19, 2017}}
Author Michael Malice joined Compound Media on June 7, 2017, with the launch of the "YOUR WELCOME" with Michael Malice{{Broken anchor|date=January 19, 2025|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Michael Malice#"YOUR WELCOME" podcast|reason= The anchor ("YOUR WELCOME" podcast) has been deleted.}} podcast.{{cite web |url=https://us.macmillan.com/author/michaelmalice |title=Michael Malice: Author |website=Macmillan Publishers |access-date=December 22, 2022}} The podcast was put on hold in 2018 with the launch of a new show titled Night Shade.{{cite AV media |date=May 23, 2018 |title="YOUR WELCOME" with Michael Malice 049 |type=Video|url=https://www.compoundmedia.com/shows/all/4314 |publisher=Compound Media|access-date=December 22, 2022}}{{Cite tweet |last= Malice |first= Michael |author-link= |user=CompoundAmerica ||number=1 |date= September 23, 2020 |title= An announcement from @michaelmalice |access-date= December 22, 2022 }}
On August 21, 2017, Cumia announced the addition of comedian and actor Artie Lange as the co-host of his show, The Artie and Anthony Show. The show aired on Monday to Thursday, from 4–6 p.m., starting September 5, 2017.{{cite web |url= https://www.compoundmedia.com/archives/the-artie-and-anthony-show?page=14 |title= Shows: The AA Show 001 |website= CompoundMedia.com |access-date= December 25, 2022 }}
On October 2, 2017, Mornin'! with Bill Schulz launched as the network's new morning show.{{cite web |url= https://www.compoundmedia.com/our-team/2 |title= Our Team: Bill Schulz |website= Compound Media |publisher= |access-date= December 24, 2022}}{{cite web |url= https://sethsimons.substack.com/p/its-called-satire |title= "It's Called Satire" |last= Simons |first= Seth |date= October 11, 2020 |website= Substack |access-date= December 24, 2022 }}{{cite web |url= https://reason.com/2020/12/06/be-cool-like-kennedy-donate-to-reason-and-help-us-spread-hotfreedom/ |title= Be Cool Like Kennedy! Donate to Reason, and Help Us Spread #HotFreedom |last= Welsh |first= Matt |date= December 6, 2020 |website= Reason |access-date= December 24, 2022 }} 2013 Miss New York USA winner and former Red Eye w/ Tom Shillue panelist Joanne Nosuchinsky joined Mornin! in February 2018.{{cite AV media | url= https://www.compoundmedia.com/shows/all/4659 | date= February 26, 2018 | title= Mornin'!!! w/ Bill Schulz 078 | type= Video | location= New York City | website= Compound Media }}
In May 2018, it was announced that due to his health and legal issues, Lange would be taking an indefinite hiatus from the show, and it would revert to the name The Anthony Cumia Show, with third mic Dave Landau continuing as co-host.{{cite web |url= https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2018/07/artie_lange_interview_wanna_bet_a_degenerate_gambl_1.html |title= Inside Artie Lange's last chance: 'I really have to stop myself from listening to the bad voice' |last= Kuperinsky |first= Amy |date= July 25, 2018 |website= NJ.com |access-date= December 25, 2022 }}
On June 4, 2019, the heavy metal music talk show That Jamieson Show launched, featuring comedian and That Metal Show co-host Don Jamieson.{{cite web|url=https://metalshout.com/joe-satriani-explain-his-biggest-weaknees-as-guitarist/|title=Joe Satriani Explains His Weaknees as a Guitarist|publisher=Metal Shout|date= March 8, 2022|last= Ayvaz|first=Omer Kaan | access-date=December 22, 2022}}{{cite web |url= https://www.cantonrep.com/story/entertainment/2020/11/18/a-lot-angrier-without-comedy-don-jamieson-returns-funny-stop/3768176001/ |title= 'A lot angrier' without comedy: Don Jamieson returns to Funny Stop |last= Lisko |first= B.J. |date= November 18, 2018 |website=The Repository |access-date= December 24, 2022 }}
In February 2021, The Anthony Cumia Show co-host Dave Landau left Compound Media to join Steven Crowder's show, Louder with Crowder.{{Cite tweet |last= Landau |first= Dave |user= LandauDave |number=1366503901906755588 |date= March 1, 2021 |title= 4:41 PM - Mar 1, 2021 |language=en |access-date= December 24, 2022 | quote= Ant and I had talked about this move and I'm excited to join LwC. I wanted to Skype in today but he felt it was best to move on. He's one of the funniest people alive and I was honored to work with him. Thank you to all at Compound and to those who supported the show.}}{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNMBCHKMXkw | people=Brennan, Kevin | date= March 5, 2021 | title= Kevin Talks Dave Landau Quitting with Anthony Cumia | type=Video | location=New York City | publisher=YouTube}}
On March 31, 2021, Cumia launched a second show, replacing his The Anthony Cumia Show Wednesday show, titled Compound Censored, with Gavin McInnes as his co-host. The show's title is a portmanteau which combines Compound Media with McInnes' subscription-based network Censored.TV, where the show also broadcasts.{{cite AV media | date= March 31, 2021 | title= Compound Media Shows - Compound Censored |type=Streaming video | publisher= Compound Media | url= https://www.compoundmedia.com/on-demand/compound-censored |url-access=subscription }}{{cite AV media | date= March 31, 2021 | title= Compound Censored |type=Streaming video| publisher= Censored.TV | url= https://censored.tv/watch/show/compound-censored |url-access=subscription }}
=Closure and merger with Censored.TV=
In June 2024, Cumia announced that the Compound Media studios were closing and that he was merging with Gavin McInnes' network, Censored.TV as Compound Media was no longer making a profit, and hadn't for at least two years. This news comes on the heels of Anthony's move to South Carolina where he built a studio in his new home from where he hosts The Anthony Cumia show and co-host's Compound Censored with McInnes.{{cite AV media | date= 25 June 2024 | title= TACS 1775 |type=Streaming video | publisher= Compound Media | url= https://censored.tv/watch/shows/tacs/episode/tacs-1775 |url-access=subscription }}{{cite web |title=The Anthony Cumia Show {{!}} Censored.TV |url=https://censored.tv/watch/show/tacs |website=Censored.TV|access-date=March 9, 2025}} McInnes changed the name of his platform to Compound Censored after the merger.{{cite web |title=Gavin McInnes, AiU, Jim Goad & More |url=https://censored.tv/ |website=CompoundCensored.com |location= Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States|access-date=March 10, 2025}}
Shows
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