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| AL GORE GETS A TV STATION |
| 2004-05-04 |
| EFL An investor group headed by former Vice President Al Gore launched a cable news network for young adults Tuesday by buying Newsworld International from Vivendi Universal Entertainment for an undisclosed sum. Newsworld International is a 24-hour channel broadcasting international news produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. that now has about 14 million North American households. Gore said the network will be "an independent voice in this industry" with a primary target audience of people between 18 and 34 "who want to learn about the world in a voice they recognize and a view they recognize as their own." "This is not going to be a liberal network, a Democratic network or a political network," Gore said at a news conference..... [no of course not, it will be all three- possibly also a geeky network] |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #16 I think the TV deal should go better than the radio foray. Giant puppets don't make much of an aural impression. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-05-04 10:46:32 PM |
| #15 "Pyscho Hour Politics" Heh. Back in the early 80's there was a movie called "Scanners." I didn't see it, but the trailers they ran for it on TV showed a sequence of this guy sitting, calmly at first, then more and more agitated, shaking and red-faced, and finally his head exploded with a BANG. That's how I always think of Al Gore. Howard Dean is another matter; him, I always equate with the character in Network, Howard Beale, who goes crazy and does that "I'm mad as hell, and I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!" thing. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-05-04 6:49:36 PM |
| #14 Well he can host a show called Pyscho Hour Politics. Just think, his first guest could be ....Howard Dean, certifiably nutso. It would be interesting to see them both have the veins stick out in their pencil necks as they spew their vitrolic "ideas" on the television media. |
| Posted by: Bill Nelson 2004-05-04 6:27:41 PM |
| #13 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-05-04 5:57:51 PM |
| #12 Watching a test pattern would be more entertaining than watching Owlie Bore! AL TV--all Al, all the time....better put this with the rest of the stuff in the...LOCKBOX. |
| Posted by: Jen 2004-05-04 5:54:52 PM |
| #11 I'm not exactly going out on a skinny limb by predicting that all these ventures in cable news and talk radio will go dark just after the first week in November. What a colossal waste of money. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2004-05-04 4:23:52 PM |
| #10 Turn out the lights the party's over. |
| Posted by: Douglas De Bono 2004-05-04 3:40:32 PM |
| #9 RT I heard that the ONLY reason that Canadians don't get Fox News is because it is against the law! The ONLY way that Air Amerika or this News channel can make money is if it was REQUIRED. DOA. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-05-04 3:26:17 PM |
| #8 Only after the check bounces, eL. |
| Posted by: Scott 2004-05-04 3:16:02 PM |
| #7 It doesn't appear on my Comcast channel lineup. Think they'll sue to get added? |
| Posted by: eLarson 2004-05-04 3:12:55 PM |
| #6 Nah, I think he claims to have invented the thumb. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-05-04 3:00:03 PM |
| #5 YS - I was sure he said something about the wheel. |
| Posted by: Scott 2004-05-04 2:53:24 PM |
| #4 YS - No, he invented electricity. |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-05-04 2:50:14 PM |
| #3 That was after he was born in a log cabin that he built with his own two hands. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-05-04 2:39:23 PM |
| #2 broadcasting international news produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. The CBC is comprised of quite possibly the only people on earth duller and more biased than Al Gore. It beggars the mind to think of the millions of news starved Americans quenching their thirst for facts in Al Gore's font of Canadian wisdom. |
| Posted by: Random thoughts 2004-05-04 2:38:37 PM |
| #1 Didn't he invent TV? |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2004-05-04 2:35:00 PM |