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Donald Trump told Cincinnati's 700WLW radio station Tuesday morning that he is focused on winning the presidential election and not the rumors that he is launching a media venture. Trump: ‘I have no interest in Trump TV’

Donald Trump pushed back against rumors that he has been looking into launching a media venture, telling a Cincinnati radio station that he only had “one interest” — winning the presidential election on Nov. 8.

“No, I have no interest in Trump TV,” Trump said during the interview, which was broadcast on Cincinnati’s 700WLW Tuesday morning. “I hear it all over the place. I have a tremendous fan base, we have a tremendous base. We have the most incredible people, but I just don’t have any interest in that.”

CNN first reported on the radio interview.

On Monday, Trump’s campaign launched a half-hour show on Trump’s Facebook page that is serving as a lead-in to Facebook livestreams of Trump’s campaign rallies. The live show, which is being filmed from Trump Tower in New York, is scheduled to continue every weeknight through Election Day, an adviser told POLITICO on Monday. The show is similar to a pre- and post-debate live show on Trump’s Facebook page that the campaign launched to cover the final presidential debate last week as an alternative to mainstream media coverage of the debate.

Trump and his campaign advisers have pushed back on suggestions that the show is laying the foundation for a post-election media venture if Trump were to lose the election in two weeks. The half-hour program, they have said, is simply an effort to get out Trump’s message to his supporters through alternate channels.

Last week, Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon said in response to the suggestions that Trump might launch a news network after the election: “Trump is an entrepreneur.”