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Is Anybody Watching? [Gore' Current TV]
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| February 8, 2006
| Ron Russell
Posted on 02/08/2006 10:47:16 AM PST by ncountylee
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To: ncountylee
Current TV keeps Gore's record of flops untarnished.
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posted on
02/08/2006 10:47:53 AM PST
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: ncountylee
Silly Gore.
This kind of programming is a shoe-in for PBS.
To: ncountylee
Maybe if he shows naked lesbian playing hockey...
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posted on
02/08/2006 10:50:25 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
To: ncountylee
He should be out from behind a camera, getting rid of internal combustion engines and inventing some new Internets.
And where's that handsome beard?
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posted on
02/08/2006 10:51:50 AM PST
by
AbeKrieger
(Islam is the virus that causes al-Qaeda.)
To: ncountylee
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posted on
02/08/2006 10:51:57 AM PST
by
Dallas59
((“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party))
To: ncountylee
""We stay in touch with what our customers want, and right now I would say [Current] is definitely a niche channel," says Andrew Johnson, Comcast's vice president for communication for the Bay Area. "It's not up to us to create a demand for Current.""
Translation:
No one is watching this POC channel.
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posted on
02/08/2006 10:52:14 AM PST
by
Signalman
To: ncountylee
I watched Current when it first came on for an hour...it was some of the worst programming I had seen in quite some time. It was like watching a high school newscast for classrooms when you were in home room. I turned it on the other day as I was flipping by it and I again watched something about Darfur and some how found a way to pin issues on the U.S. not doing enough...(U.N.? HELLO?)...but any time I flip by it..there is some hysterical angry 20 year old raging on about how bad the world is and how Bush is a criminal.
Who wants to watch this crap? I mean its bad enough it is buried on channel 201 or whatever it is.
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posted on
02/08/2006 10:52:15 AM PST
by
My Favorite Headache
("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
To: 2banana
Maybe if he shows naked lesbian playing hockey... I guess there's always a way to get me to watch....
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posted on
02/08/2006 10:52:59 AM PST
by
AbeKrieger
(Islam is the virus that causes al-Qaeda.)
To: ncountylee
To: ncountylee
Bring in 40-something Sean Penn to generate interest among young journalists? That'll work. Sure.
To: Bobkk47
From the article:
Although 20 million households have access to Current, actual viewers constitute only a fraction of that number, industry sources say. As with other niche cable channels, the perceived audience for Current is deemed too small for even ACNielsen to bother measuring.Although 20 million households have access to Current, actual viewers constitute only a fraction of that number, industry sources say. As with other niche cable channels, the perceived audience for Current is deemed too small for even ACNielsen to bother measuring.
Also:
However, in the months since it went on the air, Current has yet to announce any new cable deals to expand the meager distribution footprint it inherited when it bought Newsworld. It is distributed in only about 20 million households (roughly 50 percent of them via Rupert Murdoch's DIRECTV), barely half the number industry experts say is necessary if Current is to succeed financially.
With power concentrated in the hands of a few cable giants, including Comcast and Time Warner, it's a tough sell for any channel not owned by a media conglomerate to break onto TV screens. But that may be especially true for Current, precisely because its chairman is Gore, observers say. As a U.S. senator, Gore helped push the Cable Act of 1992, which cost the industry many millions of dollars by restricting how cable operators charge consumers and earned him the scorn of some of the same executives whose favor he now needs to help jump-start his fledgling cable enterprise.
Algore's been on a tour against the cable companies for not carrying his channel. Too bad.
To: martin_fierro
the funny thing is I have actually watched a bit and realized that at least a third of the "viewer generated news" stories are nothing more than commercial promotions...that's right, young capitalist are using Gore TV for profits!
Its usually in the form of " A look at how web based businessses are built" or "The struggles of a new band in releasing their album", but all are invariably subtle pitches for products.
There is something delicious about Gore TV being used for free advertising...
To: 2banana
"Maybe if he shows naked lesbian playing hockey..."
I would assume that is field hockey?
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posted on
02/08/2006 10:56:59 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
("We don't need POLITICIANS...we need STATESMEN.")
To: ncountylee
Err America gets these gerbil-powered AM stations at the high end of the dial to carry their crap programming by paying them to. Maybe Gore needs to break out the checkbook.
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posted on
02/08/2006 10:58:00 AM PST
by
CFC__VRWC
("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
To: ncountylee
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posted on
02/08/2006 10:58:10 AM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(It is easy to call for a pi$$ing contest when you aren't going to be in the line of fire.)
To: AbeKrieger
Maybe if he shows naked lesbian playing hockey and broadcasting the news at the same time, and the terrible leftist lean is removed, and I was 20 years younger...
To: ncountylee
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posted on
02/08/2006 11:02:43 AM PST
by
mike182d
("Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?")
To: My Favorite Headache
Your should see freespeechtv. it is some of the worst quality and insanly (and i mean clinically insane) programing and comentators.
It is pure Goebles.
To: ncountylee
"Err, just fishing out my ratings, that's all!"
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posted on
02/08/2006 11:05:10 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
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