Gore TV Lands In Central Park (Can you “sell out” a free event?)

NY Post ^ | 10/5/5 | Adam Buckman

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October 5, 2005 -- A pep rally to be held tomorrow in Central Park for Al Gore's new cable channel for young people, Current TV, is sold out, according to the event's Web site.

Tickets were free...

Instructions on the site indicate that there might be some tickets at the entrance available to those who register online for a waiting list.

The event, called "Take Back TV," is scheduled to run from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Central Park's Rumsey Playfield, best known as the site of SummerStage.

Besides promoting the fledgling cable channel, Take Back TV is aimed at enlisting the participation of its young target audience.

Programming on Current TV, which is available here on Ch. 103 on Time Warner Cable, is partially dependent on video contributed by viewers. So-called "viewer-created content" comprises about 30 percent of all programming on Current, according to the channel.

To drum up needed support, Gore will be on hand Thursday to introduce musical performances by De la Soul, Fishbone, Slum Village and others. The former vice president is a co-founder of Current, which launched Aug. 1.

Last April, a similar event — held before Current launched — attracted an estimated 6,000 participants outside Current's San Francisco headquarters.

Another Take Back TV concert/rally is scheduled in Philadelphia on Oct. 20.

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Gore will be on hand Thursday to introduce musical performances by De la Soul, Fishbone, Slum Village and others.

I wonder if Gore will whip out his Amos & Andy’s Kingfish voice that he usually reserves for the black churches. And he'll almost certainly do that "Herman-Munster-after-he-got-hit-in-the-head-with-a-shovel" dance he does when he’s getting down with the soul music.

I actually like De la Soul a little and Fishbone a lot. I just hope Tipper hasn't listened to their lyrics, or she'll pull the plug on the whole event. I would have went, but I can’t afford to buy free tickets in this George Bush economy. Besides, they’re “sold out”.

There’s just no stopping the guy!

[TheBigB]

Slum Village

How apt for Al.

[Andy from Beaverton]

What do they define as 'young people'? You have to be at least 18 to understand most of the shows, but anyone 18 or older will be bored to death by GoreTV. They must be doing forced busing from the schools to this event.

I miss my MTV NWI

[Patrick1]

Take it back from whom?

[Conspiracy Guy]

Wish I could go. Sounds like a real neato event.

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Take it back from whom?

The conservatives, obviously.

Didn’t you ever notice how every show on television shoves the pro-gun, anti-abortion, pro-freedom, traditional family values agenda down your throat? There’s almost nothing else.

[TheBigB]

What exactly is a "pep rally" for a cable channel, anyway? Are they gonna have perky cheerleaders screaming, "Okay, everybody...watch TV!"

[Patrick1]

True. Silly me.

[bmwcyle]

Current TV ---- Indoctrination for the weak mind

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[dhuffman@awod.com]

Perky? Will Katie Couric be there ... with Albore and a bunch of gangsta wannabes? Yep. They can have TV, couric, Albore, MSM, One, two, three, it ain't worth fightin' for...now or in the year 2025

[Gay State Conservative]

I'll wager that Algore's new channel won't do too well in his home state.It was,after all,the voters of the Volunteer State who were responsible for his having lost in 2000.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Turn it on
Tune it in
Watch watch watch
Turn it up
Turn it down
Sleep sleep sleep

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Al

[absolootezer0]

in other news, doctors have found a new methood for dealing with insomnia, "watch two episodes of anything on gore's channel, and call me in the morning"

[Red Badger]

Can you sell out a free event?

Maybe, but they can definitely sell out a free country..........

[Dark Knight]

Current TV is for who?

DK

[bmwcyle]

UMMMMMMMMMMMM UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

[roylene]

That was my very question ... if you find out let me know.

[weegee]

Any band that stands on stage next to Tipper PMRC Gore has already "sold out".

Why isn't this taught in school like McCarthyism?

[weegee]

It's not a pep rally, it's a photo op.

How much are the free tickets going for on Ebay?