The channel was formally launched at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference, which is an annual gathering of conservative voters and figures. Charles Herring told the Daily Beast just before the announcement that he believed "it is getting really hard to find just the reliable, credible, fact-based news with substance."
Herring added that the cable channel would include "the second component is to provide a platform where more voices can be heard, voices that are ignored, libertarian and conservative voices."
The tagline "Your Nation, Your News," preceded the network, which Herring described as an answer to their view that Fox News, which was founded in 1996, was not conservative enough.
From the beginning, the network heralded opinion hosts like Tea-Party-tangent figure Rick Amato and Graham Ledger, who was formerly an anchor at Wealth TV, according to the Daily Beast.