Genesis Communications Network

Ted Anderson is the owner of Genesis Communications Network.[https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/alex-jones Extremist Files: Alex Jones], Southern Poverty Law Center (last accessed February 19, 2017. Anderson created the network in 1998 as a way to promote his company, Midas Resources, a precious metals firm.{{Cite news |last=Hsu |first=Tiffany |date=2022-07-24 |title=Ties Between Alex Jones and Radio Network Show Economics of Misinformation |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/24/business/media/alex-jones-misinformation-genesis.html |access-date=2022-08-17 |issn=0362-4331}} As of September 11, 2015, Anderson's bullion coin representative registration, No. 40389579, was revoked. Further, Anderson was prohibited from being an owner, officer, member, or shareholder of any entity that holds a bullion coin dealer registration in the State of Minnesota for two years.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbb.org/minnesota/business-reviews/gold-silver-and-platinum-dealers/midas-resources-inc-in-burnsville-mn-17005594/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422001446/http://www.bbb.org/minnesota/business-reviews/gold-silver-and-platinum-dealers/midas-resources-inc-in-burnsville-mn-17005594/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-04-22|title=Midas Resources, Inc. Review - Gold, Silver & Platinum Dealers in Burnsville, MN - BBB Business Review - BBB serving Minnesota and North Dakota|date=2016-04-22|website=BBB.org|access-date=2019-03-29}}Nate Blakeslee, [http://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/alex-jones-is-about-to-explode/ Alex Jones Is About To Explode], Texas Monthly (March 2010).

Based in Minnesota, the network carries "a lot of conspiracy talk radio". "By far the biggest star" on the network is Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist who became one of Genesis Communications Network's first personalities in 1999, after Jones was fired by an Austin radio station. Jones promoted the 9/11 Truth movement and claimed that the Boston Marathon bombing, Washington Navy Yard shooting, and other events "are actually 'false flag' operations" by the U.S. government "or evil 'globalist' forces planning to take over the world." Jones' syndication with the network allowed him to reach a much larger audience; "[a]lmost overnight, he was on a hundred stations."

On April 19, 2024, Genesis announced that it would be shutting down on May 5. Existing programming will be migrated to other networks.Venta, Lance (April 19, 2024). [https://radioinsight.com/headlines/267692/alex-jones-syndicator-genesis-communications-network-to-shut-down/ Alex Jones Syndicator Genesis Communications Network To Shut Down]. Radio Insight. Retrieved April 20, 2024.

In May 2018, Genesis Communications Network and Midas Resources were named in a defamation lawsuit brought against Alex Jones and his syndicators. The suit was brought by the families of six victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and an FBI agent who was at the scene.{{Cite news|url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/05/25/minnesota-man-named-as-defendant-in-defamation-lawsuit-filed-by-sandy-hook-families|title=Minnesota companies named as defendants in defamation lawsuit filed by Sandy Hook families|last=Moini|first=Nina|access-date=2018-05-25}}{{Cite news|url=https://newtownbee.com/sandy-hook-families-fbi-agent-file-defamation-lawsuit-against-alex-jones/|title=Sandy Hook Families, FBI Agent File Defamation Lawsuit Against Alex Jones -|website=newtownbee.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-25|archive-date=2018-05-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180526041300/https://newtownbee.com/sandy-hook-families-fbi-agent-file-defamation-lawsuit-against-alex-jones/|url-status=dead}} In July 2022, Genesis was dropped as a defendant, with one of the plaintiff's lawyers stating that having Genesis involved at trial would have distracted from the main target: Mr. Jones and his media organization.

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The network's shows include:

• The Alex Jones Show. Hosted by radio personality Alex Jones. As of September 2020, Jones' show aired on 73 affiliate stations{{Cite web |date=2020-09-08 |title=AM & FM Affiliates For The Alex Jones Show |url=https://www.gcnlive.com/JW1D/index.php/affiliate-list?show=1 |access-date=2020-09-08 |website=gcnlive.com}}

• Daliah Wachs
• On Air With Doug, Jen and Victoria - GCN is one of two networks that distributes Doug Stephan's morning program, carrying it via relay from USA Radio Network. Upon the network's shutdown, Stephan plans on reducing the program to weekends only and moving to Talk Media Network and United Stations Radio Networks.{{Cite web |date=2024-04-26 |title=Doug Stephan's Good Day Moves To Weekends - RadioInsight |url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/267935/doug-stephans-good-day-moves-to-weekends/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |language=en-US}}
• Home Talk USA with "The Cajun Contractor" Michael King
• Free Talk Live
• Science Fantastic - Science show hosted by Dr. Michio Kaku

Brokered programming, some for alternative medical products, fills out the rest of the schedules.

Jeff Rense was carried by Genesis Communications Network after the Premiere Radio Networks dropped the show in the late 1990s. GCN took over distribution at that time, and carried the show through August 2009, at which point Rense pulled the show from the network, after he accused fellow Jones of terrorizing his family.{{Cite web |last=Solomon |first=Dan |date=2019-12-12 |title=Infowars Editor Warned Alex Jones That His Sandy Hook Sources Were "Bat Shit Crazy" |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/infowars-editor-warned-alex-jones-that-his-sandy-hook-sources-were-bat-shit-crazy/ |access-date=2021-09-17 |website=Texas Monthly |language=en}}

Psychologist Joy Browne hosted her nationally syndicated program on the network in the last few years before her death.Sam Roberts, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/arts/television/dr-joy-browne-on-air-psychologist-dies-at-71.html?_r=0 Dr. Joy Browne, Long-Running Psychologist of the Airwaves, Dies at 71], New York Times (August 31, 2016).

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• [http://www.gcnlive.com/ Official website]
• Manuel Roig-Franzia, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/how-alex-jones-conspiracy-theorist-extraordinaire-got-donald-trumps-ear/2016/11/17/583dc190-ab3e-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html "How Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist extraordinaire, got Donald Trump's ear"]. Washington Post (November 17, 2016)

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