{"id":1701,"date":"2004-05-04T12:33:11","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T17:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1701.html"},"modified":"2004-05-04T12:33:11","modified_gmt":"2004-05-04T17:33:11","slug":"gore-buying-tv-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/gore-buying-tv-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Gore buying TV network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/Politics\/reuters20040504_214.html\">This<\/a> just hit the wires:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former U.S. vice president Al Gore plans to announce on Tuesday that he has acquired cable television channel NewsWorld International from Vivendi Universal to launch a new liberal network, a source familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>NewsWorld International currently airs international news broadcasts. Terms of the deal were not immediately available.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Should be interesting. More later.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>:The AP has <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/tv\/aptv_story.asp?category=1401&#038;slug=Gore%20TV\">a few more details<\/a>. It looks like the network won&#8217;t exactly be Fox News Channel&#8217;s mirror opposite.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An investor group headed by former Vice President Al Gore launched a cable news network for young adults Tuesday by buying Newsworld International from Vivendi Universal Entertainment for an undisclosed sum.<\/p>\n<p>Newsworld International is a 24-hour channel broadcasting international news produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. that now has about 14 million North American households, according to the Vivendi Web site.<\/p>\n<p>Gore said the network will be &#8220;an independent voice in this industry&#8221; with a primary target audience of people between 18 and 34 &#8220;who want to learn about the world in a voice they recognize and a view they recognize as their own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not going to be a liberal network, a Democratic network or a political network,&#8221; Gore said at a news conference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just hit the wires: Former U.S. vice president Al Gore plans to announce on Tuesday that he has acquired cable television channel NewsWorld International from Vivendi Universal to launch a new liberal network, a source familiar with the matter said. NewsWorld International currently airs international news broadcasts. Terms of the deal were not immediately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}