For several years Metzger hosted a talk show, The Infinity Factory, broadcast on Manhattan public-access televisioncable TV and distributed online through Pseudo.com. It was similar in tone and appeal toArt Bell and George Noory's paranormalCoast to Coast AM radio show, on which Metzger had also been a guest. Many of the interview subjects on this show would go on to be features in the Channel 4 series. Metzger was the host of the TV show Disinformation, which aired for two seasons on Channel 4 in the UK as part of their late night "4Later" programming block. According to interviews, Metzger was told just twelve days prior to the first specials' air-date that he would have to cut 50% of the material from the show in order to pass the USA Network's corporate lawyers' scrutiny. Those four shows have subsequently been released on a DVD with a second bonus disc presenting highlights of The DisinfoCon, a 12-hour event featuring shock rockerMarilyn Manson via pre-Skype video chat, underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger, painter Joe Coleman, Douglas Rushkoff, Mark Pesce, Grant Morrison, Robert Anton Wilson, and others. Metzger created the "Disinformation" website in 1996, and was able to regain control of the intellectual property rights and a $1.2 million investment by the site's original backer, cable giant TCI after TCI CEO John Malone had demanded funds be cut off when news of Metzger's "anarchist bullshit" reached him. In 1997 he co-founded The Disinformation Company, which joined with Avenue A/Razorfish, and became part of the RSUB Network until 2001.
Books
He is the author of two books. Disinformation: The Interviews features unedited interviews with several of the characters and thinkers who were guests on the series such as Douglas Rushkoff, Joe Coleman, Paul Laffoley, Grant Morrison, Duncan Laurie, Peter Russell, Kembra Pfahler, Genesis P-Orridge and Howard Bloom. "Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide To Magick & The Occult" is an anthology of occult essays. According to a footnote in Disinformation: The Interviews, Metzger is the uncredited male-voice interviewing Japanese pop singer Maki Nomiya of Pizzicato 5 on their song "This Year's Girl #2". Metzger has also directed and produced several music videos in the 1980s for such New York "underground" luminaries as Bongwater, John Sex and others.
