Episodes of Glenn Beck’s show were restored on Apple Podcasts more than five hours after his radio show, “The Glenn Beck Program,” was removed from the platform earlier Wednesday.
Reached for comment, an Apple spokesman told Variety that “The Glenn Beck Program” was removed from Apple Podcasts because of a trademark dispute involving Beck’s podcast and that the issue has since been resolved. The Apple rep declined to provide details on what the trademark dispute was about.
Beck shared in an update on X (aka Twitter) that while Apple restored episodes of his podcast he still did not “have clear answers as to why this happened. Hope to have an update for you tomorrow on radio.” Currently, Apple Podcasts lists 1,914 episodes of “The Glenn Beck Program” available.
In a video uploaded to X, Beck said he received a message from Apple that said, “We found an issue with your show, ‘The Glenn Beck Program,’ which must be resolved before it’s available on Apple Podcasts. Your show has been removed from Apple Podcasts.” He continued, “They sent us a link and said, ‘For more details, go to the link.’ And the link only says ‘Your show has been removed from Apple Podcasts.’ Well, we got that one, dummy.”
Beck said “it’s probably just a glitch, but it’s amazing how we have to have a whole bunch of people point out the ‘glitch’ before the ‘glitch’ is found and [the show is] put back.” He added, “I think the closer and closer we get to [the 2024 presidential] election, the more and more ‘glitches’ are gonna happen.”
MacDailyNews Note: Beck used X to highlight the issue and report it resolved:
So what’s the “issue” @Apple?! pic.twitter.com/r111EXD8uS
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 16, 2023
https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1691879331998388718
Looks like Apple restored my 3000+ episodes to their platform but still don't have clear answers as to why this happened. Hope to have an update for you tomorrow on radio.
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 16, 2023
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Interesting. Do left-wing podcasts also have their 3000 podcasts suddenly all removed without any warning? Doubt it, unless you have a link to show otherwise.
The removal bugged the H out of me (even tho I’m not a GB listener)…as I thought it was more of the left determining what’s proper for the public’s consumption.
Thank you Apple…please don’t go the way of Goog/YT, Meta and others in presumptuously curating info b/c it doesn’t match your paradigm.
It will be a deal breaker for some/many.
Some conclusion-jumping here based on a single incident. It could be a left thing, but it also might just have been a simple error. Without more info, the latter seems the more likely answer.
Except it’s not just a single incident. Apple is one of the more woke companies out there thanks to “On My Knees For Xi” Cook and regularly suppresses conservative thought/opinion/voices
Glenn, you’re possibly correct. However, the most simple answer is often the most likely answer. When only one podcast out of the 10s of thousands that allows to post on their site has a “glitch” and that site is a highly popular right wing activist espousing things contra ’s newly acquired appetite for political involvement, what’s the simplest possible answer? Oh! It’s a “glitch” that affects only one podcast. Hmm 🤔. Possible? Yes. Likely? No.
Trademark issue???
That’s usually settled with an email or snail mail to the company’s attorney explaining what is out of order. With instructions on what needs to be fixed.
Instead Apple just yanks all the episodes off the platform and sends a vague email about it, with no clear instructions.
Sounds like leftist butt hurt action to me.
Libturds are too stupid and gullible to understand the concept of “deep state.”
We right wing nut jobs have run out of conspiracy theories because they have all come true.
But, you are just a libturd so you can not be expected to comprehend them