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    Chris Culver

    Apr 08, 2021 6 minutes

    The commodore of the New York Yacht Club, and the brains behind a vast US media network, tells Stewart Campbell how the journey has only just begun now that he owns a classic Feadship

    Cable television ratings are big news in the US. The nightly MSNBC versus Fox versus CNN battle for viewers is a never-ending slugfest with massive implications for networks’ bottom lines. Prime-time hosts face off like heavyweights, pulling in enormous salaries to seize audience share – and dictate the reverberating narrative on social media. Sitting serenely apart from this fray is a network you’ve never heard of but that’s bigger than them all. And unlike Fox, MSNBC or CNN, with this network you can’t change the channel.

    The man behind it is Chris Culver, current commodore of the New York Yacht Club and owner of the classic 40-metre Feadship His company, Health Media Network (HMN), beams programming into doctors’ offices across the US, reaching an annual audience of more than 300 million people. And

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