Exclusive: Low ratings could end cable deal for Gore's Current TV

Reuters ^ | April 5, 2012 | Peter Lauria

[C19fan]

Al Gore's Current TV has bigger problems to deal with than a potential lawsuit from fired news anchor Keith Olbermann - namely not getting kicked off Time Warner Cable for low ratings.

According to three sources with knowledge of the situation, Time Warner Cable Inc's carriage agreement with Current TV stipulates that, if the left-leaning political news network fails to meet a minimum threshold for overall viewers in a given quarter, financial penalties such as Current TV being required to increase marketing and promotion spending on the cable operator's systems are triggered.

[C19fan]

Ha ha!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Pardon my rudeness but:

BWWWWWW-HAAAAAAAA-HAAAAAAAAAA!

[Harley]

Hey I got a great idea. Al Gore can merge with Oprah’s OWN network and they can both go down together. Can’t happen fast enough.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Lol

[Standing Wolf]

Liar Gore probably should have stuck with the internet, which he invented, after all, instead of banking on old technology.

[End Times Sentinel]

Wait, people have to like it for it to stay on? That doesn't seem fair. Maybe the White Hut can step in and mandate that everyone watch two hours a day of Current, after all, it's good for them.

[GnL]

We are deeply saddened...

[TexasRepublic]

Ha Ha!!! Who actually watches that Shi’ite?

[taxcontrol]

Wow it must suck to be so consistantly wrong.

[Dudoight]

How is it that all these liberal radio and TV networks always fail, compared to the conservative outfits...and yet we are stuck with such a liberal threat to our very nation....like Obama who is odds on to win in 2012.

[Thorliveshere]

Hey I got a great idea. Al Gore can merge with Oprah’s OWN network and they can both go down together. Can’t happen fast enough.

Brilliant! And we'll call it PWN'D!

[jjotto]

How is it that all these liberal radio and TV networks always fail...[?]

They don't fail. CBS, NBC, ABC, the cable channels, and public radio and television do all right. It's just that the market will only tolerate so much of the same thing, so new competitors have a tough time going after the same market share.

[almost done by half]

I hope this money pit takes every ill gotten nickle Gore has.

[Gay State Conservative]

And after it goes down the toilet let's hope that we learn that every cent of algore’s billion dollar fortune...amassed through his grand “global warming” scam...went with it.

[Gay State Conservative]

I hope this money pit takes every ill gotten nickle Gore has.

Didn't see your post when I did mine.Great minds think alike.