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|  #1 Posted on 19.6.03 1151.45 | Gore Considers Starting Cable Network
Thursday June 19 9:45 AM ET
Former Vice President Al Gore, once a newspaper reporter, may be getting back into the media business.
Gore has been meeting with potential investors interested in creating a cable television network, Time magazine's online edition reported Wednesday.
There's been a lot of talk in Democratic circles about launching a media enterprise to counter dominant GOP voices. Political talk radio is dominated by conservative voices and Fox News Channel, the top-rated cable news outlet, is also very popular among conservatives.
A spokeswoman for Gore did not immediately return a call for comment Thursday.
A television executive who has had discussions with Gore said the idea is in its "embryonic" stages. But it's not a liberal version of a cable news network, said Steve Rosenbaum, head of the New York-based documentary producers Camera Planet.
Gore was a fan of "Unfiltered," a series Camera Planet produced for MTV that put cameras in the hands of viewers. The idea of empowering viewers is "philosophically appealing" to backers of a new network, Rosenbaum said.
"The only thing I'm confident of is that it will look like nothing you've ever seen on television, which is part of the excitement of it," Rosenbaum said.
Gore has been consulting with Joel Hyatt, founder of Hyatt Legal Services and an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Senate from Ohio in 1994, according to Time.
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Seems Al Gore is thinking about starting his own cable news network. I wonder what type of shows he will have. Makes me remember a skit SNL did, if Al Gore became President he would be giving people test over the air waves.| Promote this thread! |           | Big Bad
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|  #2 Posted on 19.6.03 1545.59 | Instant Rating: 5.54 | Rats, I thought this thread was about Al Yankovic.
Maybe that will be the gimmick; every show is hosted by someone named Al. Hell, I'd watch a Weird Al political talk show, wouldn't you?
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| #3 Posted on 19.6.03 1549.07 | Instant Rating: 7.29 |
Originally posted by Big Bad
Hell, I'd watch a Weird Al political talk show, wouldn't you?
More likley to be based in reality than Al Gore, that's for sure...
"I'm going to fill a dark awful basement with radioactive cockroaches. Yep. Big nasty ones like skateboards on legs, that go click-click-click when they walk. And maybe poisonous. I'm going to starve them for a week.
Then I'm going to catch all the coercive priss-spigots in the world, the ones that want to ban second-hand smoke and dwarf-tossing and beer. I'll smear the rascals with bacon fat, so the roaches won't know what they're eating, as otherwise they might not.
Then I'm going to toss all those greased busybodies into the basement. And whoop. And dance. Ha."
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| #4 Posted on 19.6.03 1723.06 | This could be the network that challenges MSNBC for the cellar in the ratings. That could provide for some fascinating evenings.
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| #5 Posted on 20.6.03 1730.10 | 
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Originally posted by Big Bad
Rats, I thought this thread was about Al Yankovic.
Maybe that will be the gimmick; every show is hosted by someone named Al. Hell, I'd watch a Weird Al political talk show, wouldn't you?
Now THAT'D be AL-TV. Although they could always get Al Franken to host something...until O'Reilly does a run-in. :-)
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| #6 Posted on 20.6.03 1747.11 |
Originally posted by The Thrill
Originally posted by Big Bad
Rats, I thought this thread was about Al Yankovic.
Maybe that will be the gimmick; every show is hosted by someone named Al. Hell, I'd watch a Weird Al political talk show, wouldn't you?
Now THAT'D be AL-TV. Although they could always get Al Franken to host something...until O'Reilly does a run-in. :-)
Cough!
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