Gore's TV network gets new name, launch date

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So it is a public access station only on Satellite and some cable

"The 24-hour network will target an 18- to 34-year-old audience and offer short-form content--15-second to five-minute segments--to be contributed by viewers."

Looking at user contributed shorts films on the net I am not impressed. How many dancing fatguys mouthing the words to some Russian song (I guess it's Russian) can we stand. Oh I know, can't make it on Jackass on MTV, Al Gore needs you. More stupid human tricks.

Oh goody I get to see Googles listings on their most popular search data. So what?

"Gore, who lost the 2000 election in a bitter contest with current President Bush, seemed to have put politics behind him, insisting the channel would not be a liberal pulpit."

Wanna bet? Look who is running this mess.

"The network said its financial backers included Rob Glaser, chief executive of RealNetworks, Bob Pittman who helped create the popular MTV networks and Joel Hyatt, who is chief executive of the network and built a network of legal services clinics."

I could care less but the ideology of who is at the top always filters down through the programming.

"lining up more cable systems was not easy."

You must provide a product that will make money and not become just another also ran. Unless you are a big sports nut or movie buff, I'd bet the amount of channels that most people watch regularly over cable/sat is waaayyyyyy below the minimum 60 to 80 available.

Good luck Al, you are going to need it. But then again you did so well with the internet you should do well in TV. Bwahahahahaha

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