Gore-Backed Cable Channel to Go Public
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Cable television upstart Current Media Inc. plans to go public later this year, giving investors a chance to assess the entrepreneurial skills of its co-founder, Al Gore.
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WHATEVER VOICE towns and cities have in their cable television service will be at stake in a bill before the state Legislature tomorrow.
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Swiss ISP will deliver pay-TV channels and video-on-demand service.
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The Weather Channel is up for sale by its privately held parent, which is seeking more than $5 billion for the U.S. cable television channel and its Web site, The New York Times said on Thursday.
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Television networks are free to sprinkle their programs with shootings, slashings, torture and other gore because the government has no regulatory authority over violent programming. But a draft report being circulated at the Federal Communications Commission says Congress can change that, without violating the First Amendment.
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U.S. cable operators have reached a  tentative accord to carry up to four digital channels of  non-commercial programming offered by each public television  station in a market, the two sides said on Monday.
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By David Lieberman  NEW YORK -- A cable channel geared toward soldiers and their families is about to launch an offensive to turn front-line fighters into stars in the fast-growing world of user-generated video.
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Al Gore's Current TV is going into partnership with Yahoo, Inc. to create four new broadband channels that debuted on Wednesday with a video made by Bono during U2's last concert tour.
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Tom Brokaw is giving Al Gore some company in the effort to raise awareness of global warming. The former NBC anchorman is host of &quot;Global Warming: What You Need to Know,&quot; which doubles as an explainer and call to action for average Americans. It premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. on the Discovery Channel.
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Current Media Inc, owner of the  youth-focused television network founded by former U.S. Vice  President Al Gore, plans to raise up to $100 million in an  initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock market.
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By Mason Stockstill, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif.  Sep. 13--ONTARIO -- For the first time in a long time -- perhaps ever --  residents will soon have a choice for their cable TV service.
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Mayor Kerry Prendergast is going to make broadband a key issue in her re-election campaign. Privately owned telco CityLink says that for $5.5 million, it could build a 53-kilometre suburban network.
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LOS ANGELES  - Fox Broadcasting Co. is set to announce Thursday that it will make select primetime series available for download-to-own on the Web sites of more than 200 of its affiliated stations during the next few months.
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Hulu.com, the online video venture from NBC Universal and News Corp., has launched a private beta program. Early reports suggest it's far from being a YouTube killer.
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By The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 6--More than three years ago, Mayor Street endorsed moving ahead on the long-delayed promise of a citizen-run cable television station for Philadelphia -- still the largest American city without a TV outlet for amateur programming.
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Yahoo said it had penned an agreement with Current, the current events cable network pioneered by former presidential candidate Al Gore. The deal would bring some of the network's "viewer created content" to Yahoo's video service.
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Bills for thousands of Montgomery County cable viewers will increase by 4 percent starting March 1, when Comcast Corp., suburban Maryland's largest cable television provider, raises rates throughout the Washington region.