Glenn Beck Net Worth 2024, Biography, Personal Life, Professional Career, and Everything
Glenn Beck is a famous American radio host, talk show host, political commentator, entrepreneur, and producer. He gained popularity on Premiere Radio Networks’ talk radio show, Glenn Beck Radio Program. He also hosted Glenn Beck on HLN from 2006 to 2008 and was on Fox News between 2009 and 2011.
Keep reading to learn more about Glenn Becks’s net worth, personal life, professional career, and more.
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Real Name | Glenn Lee Beck |
Profession | Talk show host, political commentator, producer, entrepreneur |
Date of Birth | February 10, 1964 |
Age | 60 years |
Birthplace | Everett, Washington, U.S. |
Parents | William Beck, Mary Beck |
Spouse | Claire (m. 1983; div. 1994), Tania (m. 1999) |
Children | Cheyenne Beck, Mary Beck, Raphe Beck, Hannah Beck |
Net Worth | Estimated $200 million |
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Net Worth 2024
As of 2024, Beck’s net worth is estimated at around $200 million. He earned most of his wealth through his media career and business ventures, as he is the CEO, founder, and owner of Mercury Radio Arts.
Early Life
Beck was born to Mary Clara and William Beck on February 10, 1964, in Everett, Washington. His family later moved to Mount Vernon, where they have a downtown bakery. His family raised him as a Roman Catholic.
He attended Immaculate Conception Catholic School in Mount Vernon. Later, he moved to Sumner, Washington, with his mother and sister. There, he attended a Jesuit school in Puyallup.
In 1979, when he was 15, his mother died by drowning in Puget Sound while fishing and her companion also drowned. In the police investigation, it was ruled as an accident, but Beck said in interviews that it was a suicide.
After his mother’s death, he moved to Bellingham with his father. In 1982, he graduated from Sehome High School. At 18, he moved to Provo and started working at the radio station KAYK.
Professional Career
Beck moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1983 and began working at KZFM. Then, he became the lead DJ for WRKA’s morning drive radio broadcast in Louisville, Kentucky. His show was Captain Beck and the A-Team.
A few months later, he joined Phoenix Top-40 station KOY-FM, where he co-hosted a local morning zoo program with Tim Hattrick. He resigned in 1989 and started working at the radio station KRBE in Houston, but he was fired from there the following year due to low ratings.
In 2000, his new show, The Glenn Beck Program, aired on WFLA in Tampa. The show’s success led Premierd Radio Network to launch it nationwide in January 2002. In 2008, it reached over 280 terrestrial stations and ranked fourth in the nation with more than 6.5 million listeners.
In 2006, CNN’s Headline News hired Beck to host a nightly news commentary, Glenen Beck, wired on weeknights. During his tenure, he won the Marconi Radio Award for Network Syndicated Personality of the Year in 2008.
In the same year, he left CNN Headline News and joined Fox News Channel, where he began hosting Glenn Beck in January 2009. He also appeared on The O’Reilly Factor’s regular Friday segment, “At Your Beck and Call.”
In June 2011, Beck left Fox News and started his network, TheBlaze TV, called initially GBTV, in September 2011. It was a subscription-based Internet TV network that earned 300,000 subscriptions and generated $40 million in its first year of operation.
Personal Life
Beck married Claire in 1983. They first met while working at WPGC. They shared two daughters, Mary and Hannah. The couple got divorced in 1994 after he struggled with substance abuse. After that, he married Tania in 1999, and they have two children together. In 2010, he announced the diagnosis of macular dystrophy. He also suffers from a severe neurological disorder.
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