Posted on 04/05/2012 11:45:40 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Reuters: Low Ratings Could End Cable Deal for Gore's Current TV
(Reuters) - Al Gore's Current TV has bigger problems to deal with than a potential lawsuit from fired news anchor Keith Olbermann - namely not getting kicked off Time Warner Cable for low ratings.
According to three sources with knowledge of the situation, Time Warner Cable Inc's carriage agreement with Current TV stipulates that, if the left-leaning political news network fails to meet a minimum threshold for overall viewers in a given quarter, financial penalties such as Current TV being required to increase marketing and promotion spending on the cable operator's systems are triggered.
If Current TV misses the audience benchmark in two consecutive quarters, another clause is triggered that would allow Time Warner Cable to drop the channel. The condition was built into the most recent distribution pact between the two parties, which was signed in 2010.
"Time Warner Cable has been flirting with the idea of pulling Current off its systems for some time now," said one of the sources,
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Ha! Gore loses again!!!!!
Gore could always move Current TV to a channel on YouTube.
If cable providers offered a la carte programming probably half of the channels would vanish.
Sounds as exciting as watching ice melt....
Wait! That’s what it was...
In other news: sales figures for beds-of-nails and liver-flavored jelly beans are way down.
Global Cable Cooling?...
Well, they've all vanished in my house.
LOL, plus he can subscribe to Adsense for revenue (snicker).
He’s demanding a viewer recount.
Too many ultra-leftwing cable “news” channels chasing too few leftards...
I feel so bad for Mr. Gore.
Okay, I don’t. :)
gore should spend his ill-gotten gains on a good Psychologist.
The only reason to ever watch that channel was to laugh at Olbermann having his meltdown whenever the Left was having a bad day.
No other reason to watch that channel. Turk the Jerk is just butt-ugly, Client #9 is not that engaging, and Commie-Babe Canuck Governor Jenny Granholm is about 20 years past her Fox News Blonde sell-by date.
Good one!
I don’t know who watches that channel but how many times can they watch The Oxycontin Express? The network has been playing the same handful of documentaries over and over for the last six or eight months.
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