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| 2004-03-31 | |
| PAPER: GORE SET TO CLOSE DEAL ON CABLE TV CHANNEL What paper, EZ Wider or Zig-Zag? The NEW YORK OBSERVER will report on Wednesday that former Vice President Al Gore will close the deal to buy his own cable TV channel this week! After all he took the initiative in creating Mr. Gore and I will resist the John Kerry jokes. For now... How much $ did Gore put up, or was it all Hyatt? Inquiring minds want to know!
"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 File this one as well under Bad Ideas. Impacting... | |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #20 Jews lied to President Bush about WMD and now they say that he lied. BTW, Rantburg is a Zionist propaganda BBS that censors truth while Americans die in Iraq on basis of Jewish lies. MR. Pruitt, censorship of truth puts American blood on your hands -- we'll make sure that America "never forgets". |
| Posted by: Free Speech Enforcer TROLL 2004-03-31 7:23:06 AM |
| #19 Let Al have his ideas compete in the marketplace. As noted above, his main competition will be other liberal TV programs but so what. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-03-31 6:28:38 AM |
| #18 If Gore's running it, it won't be a problem. It will be boring. But if they hire people that know how to do the kind of programming that actually appeals to young people, then they can swing things their direction. They want the youth vote. MTV has a lot of the same tactics. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-03-31 9:32:36 PM |
| #17 im liking that kinan lady from the mornings. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-03-31 12:02:38 PM |
| #16 Don't forget Laurie Doo! Her lips....wow! |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-03-31 12:00:13 PM |
| #15 Frank G - Patti Ann's cute - but MY fave rave is Rita Cosby..purrrrrrrrrrr Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2004-03-31 11:40:47 AM |
| #14 Dittos, Frank G. ('bout both the cable station and P.A.B.) Hell, where I live, we never got CBS's cable outlet "Eye On America" or whatever it was called. I don't even know if it still exists. The likelihood of getting some sort 24-hour Daily Show seems even slimmer. Go for it, LLL. Your message is clearly not getting out enough. (snicker) (This does go to show what ambulence chasing via television commercial can do for one's wallet.) |
| Posted by: eLarson 2004-03-31 10:42:57 AM |
| #13 The market is already speaking, this from Drudge: CNN has lost more than half its audience from a year ago, according to NIELSEN! In 24-Hour Time Period for the first quarter of 2004, FOX NEWS CHANNEL averaged 824,000 viewers, down 36% vs. a year ago, which saw heightened viewership due to the Iraqi War. CNN plummeted 52%, averaging 458,000 viewers, while MSNBC dropped 49% averaging 234,000 viewers. In PrimeTime, FOX NEWS decreased 36% from its 2003 viewership, averaging 1,394,000 people. CNN plunged 48% with 806,000 viewers and MSNBC fell 50% with 333,000 viewers. Eleven out of the top 12 cable news shows so far in 2004 appeared on FOX NEWS. Only one of CNN’s shows, Larry King Live, made the list at number four with 1,302,000 viewers. King trailed behind FNC’s The O’Reilly Factor (2,241,000 viewers), Hannity & Colmes (1,540,000 viewers). |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-03-31 10:08:30 AM |
| #12 mmmmm Patti Ann Browne.... Al's channel won't be on anyone's basic cable for years, and nobody will watch it. I totally encourage this, it drains more money from their election funds, and nobody will watch it who doesn't drink their kool-aid already |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-03-31 9:52:00 AM |
| #11 im watch fox for the hot chicks. they all turning me on except for greta. she look like she probly in that s and m stuff and im not liking that. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-03-31 9:39:23 AM |
| #10 Despite vociferous claims that the network isn’t’ attempting to be the liberal antidote to Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News… Keanulint-brain. FOX News IS the TV antidote to CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, etc. |
| Posted by: Steve from Relto 2004-03-31 9:30:38 AM |
| #9 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted] |
| Posted by: mhw TROLL 2004-03-31 6:28:38 AM |
#8 I don't see this development as scary. As a New York Post editorial this morning, titled "Always Room For More, Al" puts it,And on the left, there's:What's one more idiot channel? |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-03-31 6:19:12 AM |
| #7 Hyatt established a chain of discount storefront law offices -- "Hyatt Legal Services" -- that used to advertise on TV a lot. (Hyatt appeared in the comercials, comparing himself to Abe Lincoln.) After Hyatt's political career cratered, Hyatt Legal Services kind of disappeared. It appears to have been bought up by Met Life and transmogrified into an employee benefits provider (call it group lawyer insurance, perhaps?). |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-03-31 6:07:17 AM |
| #6 Al Gore is nutz and acts like it! He's taken his cue from Howling Howard (his buddy) and decided to just go on and scream alot. If this lib media gets any listeners, it will probably be our grandparents who are nostalgic for old-time revival preachers yelling about Hell! |
| Posted by: Jen 2004-03-31 6:06:29 AM |
| #5 I don't think so. The Dems are getting as humorless and antifun as they have constantly claimed Republicans to be. Hillary got smacked for joking about how Ghandi worked at her local gas station. Bush makes fun of himself at the National Press Club, and the Dems are beside themselves with outrage. If it ain't no fun, ain't no kids gonna watch it. |
| Posted by: Ben 2004-03-31 4:30:23 AM |
| #4 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. Nothing against iPods, but reiterating from the lib radio discussion of yesterday: Again I say, this media stuff shouldn't be underestimated! Look how patient the libs are--aiming for ten or so years from now. ( Let's see . . . how old would that make "hip" Hilary?) With the popularity of little Britney Spears and her on-stage live masturbation concerts, the "cool" political pitch should be a shoe-in with the wayward younger crowd. Just link sex and music with lib politics, and remember every vote counts. Bet they'll bring up the hanging chad thing again, too. Gore has just got to tell his story 'bout that. He's just gotta. He's just gotta. He's just gotta. I think this development is scary. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-03-31 1:23:07 AM |
| #3 So Jacques the Corrupt kicked a favor to Algore? I wonder how much of a sweetheart deal this is for Algore. |
| Posted by: Dishman 2004-03-31 1:00:06 AM |
| #2 Oh yeah. let me tell ya about Joel Hyatt...his father in law was the late Sen Howard Metzenbaum - the guy who tried to take a knife to Clarence Thomas, and who tried to get a law passed that said companies had to accept whatever deal unions demanded. He made teddy Kennedy look like Rush Limbaugh. And Joel is every bit as liberal. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2004-03-31 12:43:19 AM |
| #1 What is it with rich guys and throwing money at dumb leftwing ideas. The news in an MTV format with lashings of tranzi mea culpa. The talking heads will love it and commercially it will bomb. |
| Posted by: Phil B 2004-03-31 12:37:03 AM |