Background 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". 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. 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. 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. In November 2014, Cumia said the network had over 40,000 paid subscribers.
Gavin McInnes launched
The Gavin McInnes Show on the network on June 15, 2015, airing Monday through Thursday. The idea for the
Proud Boys, which McInnes founded, originated in "the Compound", Cumia's mansion, around 2016. 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". In monologues on his show, McInnes publicized the Proud Boys and laid out the group's ideology of Western chauvinism. 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. Author
Michael Malice joined
Compound Media on June 7, 2017, with the launch of the
"YOUR WELCOME" with Michael Malice podcast. The podcast was put on hold in 2018 with the launch of a new show titled
Night Shade. 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. On October 2, 2017, ''
Mornin'! with Bill Schulz'' launched as the network's new morning show. 2013
Miss New York USA winner and former
Red Eye w/ Tom Shillue panelist Joanne Nosuchinsky joined
Mornin! in February 2018. 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. On June 4, 2019, the
heavy metal music talk show
That Jamieson Show launched, featuring comedian and
That Metal Show co-host
Don Jamieson. In February 2021,
The Anthony Cumia Show co-host Dave Landau left Compound Media to join
Steven Crowder's show,
Louder with Crowder. 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.
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. McInnes changed the name of his platform to
Compound Censored after the merger. ==Shows==