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As we have noted, former Fox News host and GBTV founder Glenn Beck recently moved his studio from New York to Dallas, Texas.

One of the biggest benefits of being in Texas is the space. There’s lots of it. GBTV is putting that space to effective use, building out its studio in ways that could not be done in New York. Among them is a new area where Beck will promote advertisers and sponsors, taking the formula that has worked on radio for 100 years and trying to make it transfer to video.

There is also a full-size replica of the Oval Office, featuring replicas of The Resolute Desk and the Oval Office rug. Some of the props even came from the set of Oliver Stone‘s film “JFK.”

Watch Beck show off his new studio in this exclusive video:

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In this episode of “Cubes,” we tour the worldwide headquarters of IPG Mediabrands, the media holding company responsible for $34 billion in global revenue from advertising agencies such as Universal McCann. IPG’s work includes the Geico Gecko and Volkswagen’s pint-sized Darth Vader.

The IPG headquarters is home to a cutting edge media lab full of “Minority Report”-esque marketing technology, and the office includes a high-tech workspace dubbed “the desk of the future” and a skyway stretching over 32nd Street that was once used by the Gimbels department story, the building’s previous tenant.

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For HLN’s Robin Meade, singing in front of thousands of people comes much more naturally than delivering the news every morning on her show, “Morning Express.”

Meade, who grew up singing in her church, is now busy at work on a follow-up to her debut album “Brand New Day.”  The veteran morning anchor recently sat down for a “Media Beat” interview and discussed how performing has prepared her for a career in news.  Since singing is so important to who Meade is, we thought we’d post a quick video of her belting out some tunes…

Here’s the first part of our three-part interview with Meade in which she discusses the role of music in her life…

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In the latest episode of mediabistroTV’s “My First Big Break,” we hear from radio personality, author, former Fox News host and GBTV founder Glenn Beck. While he has found tremendous success across many different forms of media, did you know that he almost left the business to go to cooking school? If it wasn’t for a heart-to-heart conversation with his father, he may never have found his professional voice.

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Columnist and New York magazine editor-at-large  Frank Rich has strong feelings about a lot of things. TV news is one of them. In this week’s Media Beat interview, Rich tells PRNewser editor Tonya Garcia, “I think the worst influence can be cable news, particularly cable news getting obsessed, not with political stories, but with natural disaster, missing children, and driving all coverage of the national story off the air.”

After the jump, part I of the interview in which Rich talks about his role as executive producer of the HBO comedy “Veep.” “I think comedy, satire, and farce, which is also a little bit of Veep, heightens everything,” Rich says.

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On Thursday, mediabistroTV will present the next installment of our series “My First Big Break,” featuring radio personality, author, GBTV founder and former Fox News host Glenn Beck.

Beck, who got his first taste of the radio business at the surprisingly young age of 12, argues that radio is “the most powerful form of communication out there, that is why they always keep trying to shut it down.”

Get the whole story when the episode debuts on Thursday.

HLN’s Robin Meade isn’t always tied to the anchor desk. In fact, Meade was back in Nashville this week working on a new album, a follow-up to “Brand New Day.” And then there was the time she jumped out of an airplane with a former president. How that all came about, in Part III of our Media Interview.

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• Part I | Monday: Robin Meade Triple Threat: Anchor, Singer, Songwriter

• Part II | Tuesday: “I Won’t Even Make a Face Twitch that Someone Might Interpret as Having an Opinion”

Robin Meade works for a channel that bills itself as the “News & Views” network. And while the HLN anchor keeps her opinions to herself, you just might hear her give her take on some of the odd stories in the news. Like the time a woman went through airport security with an “adult toy.” In Part II of our Media Beat interview, we talk about that as well as the news/opinion divide and her first day on the air at CNN Headline News: 9/11/01.

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• Part I | Monday: Robin Meade Triple Threat: Anchor, Singer, Songwriter

• Part III | Tomorrow: Robin Meade Cleans Up the “Dirty Laundry”

HLN anchor Robin Meade has been a performer all her life. From school concerts to beauty pageants, Meade has turned a passion for performing into an award-winning news career. The former Miss Ohio, who’s hosted HLN’s morning show since 2001, has returned to the stage performing songs from her album “Brand New Day.” In the first part of our Media Beat interview, Meade tells us how songwriting and news writing are not all that different.

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• Part II | Tomorrow: How “News and Views” Doesn’t Always Mean Opinion

• Part III | Wednesday: Robin Meade Cleans Up the “Dirty Laundry”

In the latest episode of mediabistroTV’s “My First Big Break,” we hear from HollywoodLife.com editor Bonnie Fuller. Fuller gained international acclaim as the editor of magazines such as Marie Claire, US Weekly and Cosmopolitan, but did you know that she started out as a beat reporter writing about sports clothes? Or that a friendship with an upcoming fashion designer named Tommy Hilfiger led to a meeting that would change her professional career? Watch below, as Fuller explains how she went from a young cub reporter, to one of the most powerful women in publishing.

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