Current TV Pledges To Break Ground Online With Keith Olbermann
While Current TV is aiming to make a big splash in television with its announcement Tuesday that Keith Olbermann will join as both nightly o…
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Current TV Taps Sims Creator Will Wright For Interactive Webisode Series
Will Wright, creator of virtual world The Sims, is getting into television with an episodic series for Current TV tentatively titled Bar Ka…
Jersey Shore, As Narrated by Oprah = Genius
Current’s Infomania hit upon a winning combination last night: What if Oprah Winfrey (who’s the narrator of the Discovery Channel’s (s DISCA)…
Current TV Moves Away From Signature Short-Form Programming; 80 Jobs Cut
Roughly 90 days into Mark Roshenthal’s tenure as CEO of Current Media, the company’s cable network is dropping short-form programming and so…
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Current TV Cancels Some Shows, Lays Off 80
Nov. 11 is not a good date for Current TV employees. For the second year in a row, the network/web site hybrid…
Industry Moves: Current Media Replaces Hyatt; Mark Rosenthal Is New CEO
Current Media, the parent of Al Gore-based Current TV, has replaced the longtime CEO Joel Hyatt with another media vet: Mark Rosenthal, who…
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Current Replaces CEO With MTV and Ad Industry Vet
Multiplatform video company Current Media said today that Mark Rosenthal, the former president and COO of MTV Networks and CEO of Interpublic…
Current Scraps Twitter-Centric Agency Search (And Exec Behind The Idea)
Al Gore-backed Current Media enticed multiple ad agencies to tweet for its business in April, but now the attention-grabbing idea has been s…
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North Korea Sentences Current TV Journalists to 12 Years of Labor
Terrible news. The two Current TV journalists arrested for trespassing in North Korea have been found guilty and sentenced to 12 years…
Current TV Journalists on Trial Today
Two American journalists for Current TV, the cable/web network, were scheduled to go on trial in North Korea today. Laura Ling and…
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Current Network Makes Ad Agencies Tweet For Its Business
Even as developers struggle with Twitter’s abrupt platform changes — and worry about having their service shut down all together — compani…
Industry Moves: Sparkplay Media, interCLICK, Linden Lab
— Sparkplay Media: Current Media and *AOL* vet Stephen Blumenfeld joined browser-based game developer Sparkplay Media as CTO. Blumenfeld h…
Gore-Backed Current TV Pulls Plug On IPO
Al Gore’s Current Media has canceled plans for a $100 million IPO. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Current Media sa…
Vid-Biz: Netflix, Hulu, Current
Report: It Costs Netflix Roughly a Nickel to Stream a Movie; Day Rayburn crunches some numbers and estimates that it costs the…
Gore-Backed Current TV Lays Off 60, Despite Canada Expansion; What About IPO Plans?
Current TV, backed by Al Gore, is going through a bit of its own gore today, as it laid off about 60 of its employees. The exact count: it i…
Current A-Twitter with Debate Hacking
Sprinkling a little Twitter dust on your broadcast is the hot new trend in television. Both Current and C-SPAN have displayed “tweets”…
Target Women, Pizza Robot: NTV Station Today!
From Team Tiger Awesome comes this absurdist bit of genius comedy: An almost-parody of Boyz in the Hood, Pizza Robot tells the…
Hanging Out at CurrentTV With Al Gore
With the U.S. Presidential elections likely to be held in November 2008, two major candidates, Senators John McCain (Rep.) and Barack Obama…
Current TV: Ad Revenue Drops At Al Gore’s Network; Losses Widen En Route To IPO
Not the trend you want to be showing as you work towards an IPO: In its Q1 ended March 31, Current TV had ad revenue of just $2.5 million, a…
Gore-Backed Current TV Files For $100 Million IPO; $63.7 Million 2007 Revs; Losses Mount
A first look into the books of Al Gore’s cable network: Current Media (parent of Al Gore-backed Current TV) has filed for a $100 million NAS…
