Erick Stakelbeck
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- Television host
- investigative reporter
Erick Stakelbeck | |
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 Stakelbeck in 2024 | |
| Born | January 21, 1976 |
| Education | Holy Family University |
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| YouTube information | |
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| Years active | 2016–present |
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| Subscribers | 1.08 million |
| Views | 207 million |
| Last updated: October 6, 2025 | |
| Website | erickstakelbeck |
Erick Stakelbeck (born January 21, 1976) is an American television host and presenter of Stakelbeck Tonight on TBN and The Watchman Newscast on YouTube.[1][2] As a Christian Zionist,[3][4] his previous The Watchman show was sponsored by Christians United for Israel,[5] Stakelbeck being the director of its Watchman Project.[6] Stakelbeck has also been noted as an investigative reporter and author on radical Islam,[7][8][9] and is TBN's news director.[10]
Stakelbeck had a working-class upbringing in Philadelphia, with his father, who was a factory electrician by trade, also being "an autodidact who loved to study biblical history."[3][11] Growing up in the Fox Chase neighborhood,[12] Stakelbeck graduated from the Holy Family University in the same city.[13] While a long-time supporter of Israel, he also became increasingly drawn to studying the roots of Islamic terrorism after the September 11 attacks, and began writing articles for FrontPage Magazine.[3]
Television career
Stakelbeck worked as a senior writer and analyst at the Investigative Project on Terrorism from 2003 to 2005, and his articles appeared in several newspapers.[13] From 2005 he worked as a television correspondent, host and analyst for CBN News, where he covered "U.S. national security, the Middle East, Israel-related issues and the growth of radical Islam at home and abroad."[13] He hosted the show Stakelbeck on Terror on CBN from 2010,[14][15] and The Watchman from 2013.[16] He has also been a regular contributor and guest host on The Blaze TV, and a regular guest on several Fox News shows.[12] He received the Ben Hecht Award for Outstanding Journalism from the Zionist Organization of America in 2014,[12] and a media "Truth" award from the Endowment for Middle East Truth in 2015.[17]
Stakelbeck began hosting The Watchman on TBN in 2016.[5] For his show, he has travelled throughout Israel, reporting from the borders of Gaza, Syria and Lebanon, and interviewing senior Israeli leaders.[3][11] He regularly highlights Israel's "strategic predicament", noting its proximity to radical Islamic terror groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas at its borders.[3] He also focuses on biblical end times prophecy, believing that "we live in prophetic times", and that "the miraculous rebirth of Israel ... set the prophetic time clock into overdrive".[18] He additionally became a correspondent for TBN's new Centerpoint, a nightly news and analysis program in 2022,[19] and host of the new show Stakelbeck Tonight in 2024[20] which replaced The Watchman.[1]
Stakelbeck recorded an exclusive interview with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2022,[2][21] and with then-former US president and presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2024.[22]
Views
Stakelbeck has addressed several conferences and events of conservative groups such as ACT for America, the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Family Research Council,[23] including the Values Voter Summit,[24][25] as well as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Israel Allies Foundation, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs,[13] and has aligned himself with counter-jihad activists.[28]
He has stated his view that "the Left sees Islam as an ally and Western Civilization and the Judeo-Christian tradition is the enemy" and that Islam and the Left "have a shared hatred for this country".[29] He also claims that there is a "concerted effort by Islamists to infiltrate the very heartland of American society" and that American Muslims are engaged in "stealth" or "civilizational" jihad to impose Sharia in the US.[23]
Personal life
Stakelbeck is married and has two daughters,[13][20] and lived in the Dallas–Fort Worth area as of 2024.[20] He previously lived outside Washington, D.C.[13]
