Gore buys cable network for $70 million

but i hope its true. I liberal channel! How sweet would that be

It may be honest BUT...Al Gore owns it!

His net worth isn't even 10% of that!

and there are ways to finance these things

Just HATE doing that. Especially since he's STILL no journalist, but I can remember being one.

will still support the fairness doctrine, now that we own two pure liberal networks (radio & tv)

'will still support the fairness doctrine'

Just as strongly as ever.

Another reason for the rest of the media to slander every Liberal voice, especially because the new channel will be a competitor to the rest.

http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=8034

NYTV - 10/20/2003
Al Gore Wants His VTV by Joe Hagan

Al wants his VTV.

As former Vice President Al Gore edges toward mini-media-moguldom, press sources quoted his partners this week as saying that Mr. Gore would go younger, not leftier—and now, if his plans work, The Observer has learned, Mr. Gore’s news channel could be … VTV.

V for victory, V for Vice President, V for Vermont, which Mr. Gore won by 30,000 votes in 2000.

In April, Mr. Gore’s principal business partner, Joel Hyatt, purchased a Web site called V.tv from The .tv Corporation, which supplies .tv domain extensions to customers like TBS, the Lifetime Channel and PAX. The company’s Web site lists Mr. Hyatt as V.tv’s administrative contact and as a representative of INDTV, L.L.C., located in Stanford, Calif., where Mr. Hyatt teaches business at Stanford University. An industry source confirmed that INDTV is the working incorporated name of Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt’s TV project, which has been characterized in press reports as either a news network for the reality-TV generation or a liberal answer to Fox News, or both.

That's what I'm talkin!!!!

NWI is great! Leave it alone! We don't need another fluff news channel.

BTW: This news is old as hell.

Of all the pure garbage channels on cable and they want to destroy one of the few good ones??? AAAAARRRGH!

Newsworld International is mostly Canadian Broadcasting Company news, with newscasts from other countries as well. It was the only news channel I could stand to watch during the Iraq War.

Why couldn't they buy one of those wretched shopping channels?

I will never forgive Al Gore if he turns NWI into a lame MTV wannabe.

Let him buy MSGOP or something.

One thing about Drudge. Most of his "exclusives" are stories that are already up or that will be posted within the hour.

http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage5.asp

Al Gets Gore-TV
by Joe Hagan



The Observer has learned that former Vice President Al Gore and business partner Joel Hyatt, an entrepreneur and Democratic fund-raiser, will close the deal to pay around $70 million to French-owned Vivendi Universal this week, making them the owners of the tiny digital-cable channel Newsworld International (NWI), moving Mr. Gore from politics to mini-media-moguldom.

Mr. Gore’s group plans to transform the sleepy foreign-news outlet into a youth-oriented public-affairs channel, a jump-cut news network for the iPod set. Despite vociferous claims that the network isn’t attempting to be the liberal antidote to Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, it’s difficult to ignore the obvious: It may be fair, it may be balanced, but it’s going to be owned by Al Gore.

Meanwhile, the other Al among media giants, media-political hybrid Al Franken, incipient Minnesota Democratic candidate and Bill O’Reilly tag-team partner, was launching his somewhat more overtly political media project, Air America Radio, the little liberal radio network determined to correct the Fox effect on American news. And Al’s pal Al was delighted.

"Fabulous!" Mr. Franken said. "I think it’s a good thing. I think Al Gore’s a good guy." He started laughing with pleasure just thinking about it. "And I think Al Gore is a smart guy who has tremendous curiosity, and I think he’s a person who likes ideas," he continued. "And I think, you know, from all I know from the people I’ve met in media, he’d be a good choice as someone to have a piece of it. I’m much more comfortable in his hands than a lot of people."

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I bet he did.

Have you ever seen Newsworld International, Slinkerwink? It already is a liberal news channel, since it broadcasts exclusively non-U.S. newscasts.

I mean, what's to guarantee that a "youth-oriented" liberal news channel won't misfire and seem like older people awkwardly trying to look as if they're in touch with the young? That could be deadly.

Why destroy a good station? Why not buy some crap station and reformat it?

I am completely pissed off at Al Gore. Who was the genius who told him to do this?

If you don't get Newsworld Int'l on your cable system, take a look at their website to see what Gore is going to destroy:

http://www.nwitv.com/

But, once Al Gore is done with it, I think that it will be a household name.

and takes off all the international programming and turns it into something no one over the age of 15 cares to watch?

It was the only news station I could stand to watch during the Iraq War.

That is, it is my understanding, what the plan is. Fast moving, in your face, hard hitting, easy to understand and digest news without the GOP lies and bias.

while sparing all those pathetic shopping channels and fundamentalist channels and infomercial channels and channels that do nothing but show reruns of programs that weren't any good the first time around?

...
At the time, however, Vivendi was preparing to sell its cable properties to NBC, which temporarily stalled Mr. Gore’s media ambitions.
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http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/frontpage5.asp

his heart is in the right place. I would rather someone buy out any of the Republican channels. MSNBC? but take what you can get.

hmm...that channel is worth checking out if it's included in regular cable.

Drudge has proven himself to be a right wing whore of mis-information. Please get off of his site and quit putting pennies into his pocket book and the pocket book of the GOP.