Gore Tries To Lure Younger People Back To TV

SAN FRANCISCO - In an effort to lure an Internet-savvy generation back to their television sets, former Vice President Al Gore joined investors Monday to announce the creation of Current, a cable TV channel that will target younger viewers with a blend of news, culture and personal videos.

Gore will serve as chairman of the board of the new venture, which will be based in San Francisco. He and Joel Hyatt, the founder of Hyatt Legal Services who will serve as Current's chief executive, assembled an investment team that paid $70 million last year to acquire the Newsworld International channel from Vivendi International.


http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/11310052.htm

he works at Channel One but hates it.

But Evangelicals will yell "Liberal!" and have it shut down for corrupting the youth by having them think for once.

Anything that cancels the Evangelical parents' vote would be great.

What a subversive magazine that was way back then. We lived for it as kids, waiting at the pharmacy for the magazine delivery on whatever day it was, take it home, and study it thoroughly. William Gaines, a great man, was the publisher. I got my first Alfred E. Newman for President poster in 1960. My parent's were Republicans but I knew better, because I had my own political journal, "Mad Magazine." These kids will watch the Gore channel because it's for t hem and put together by them. Their video journalism approach will be highly innovative. They will also watch because the CM (corporate media) is toxic at this point, you just turn it on and you want to throw up. It will add to the Jon Steward phenomenon.

Thanks Al!!!

Hopefully that's the idea.

I like the twin approaches "blend of interactivity and populism." Well, here we go, we'll get 70% of that vote next time.

You Go Gore!

Thanks :thumbsup:

think this has something to do with Gore's network.

http://www.advancedippipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160403707

SAN FRANCISCO -- Move over blogging -- here comes Internet-based home video, to a Google server near you.

While there's no formal announcement yet, Google co-founder Larry Page said Monday that the well-known search engine concern would soon let the general public upload self-produced videos to Google's servers, partly in an effort to learn more about how to more efficiently search and display information about video-based data.

"It's an experiment we want to run," said Page of the video-uploading service, which he said the company will formally announce "in the next few days." Page made the non-announcement announcement during Monday's opening panel discussion at the National Cable & Telecommunications Show here, upstaging his luminary fellow panelists John Chambers of Cisco, Brian Roberts of Comcast, Jon Miller of AOL and Jeffrey Katzenberg of Dreamworks.