Gore's Current TV hopes to spark interest in young viewers (Debuts today!)

[Maddy McCall]

NEW YORK -- Much of the talk around Al Gore's new Current TV network has been broadly philosophical, like the former vice president's statement that ''we want to be the television home page for the Internet generation."

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Gore and his fellow investors envision Current as a sounding board for young people, a step beyond traditional notions of interactivity. They want viewers to contribute much of the network's content now that high-quality video equipment is widely available.

Based on material previewed on its website, Current at first glance seems like a hipper, more irreverent version of traditional television newsmagazines.

Most of its programming will be in ''pods," roughly two to seven minutes long, covering topics such as jobs, technology, spirituality, and current events. An Internet-like on-screen progress bar will show the pod's length.

More here:
http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2005/08/01/gores_current_tv_hopes_to_spark_interest_in_young_viewers/

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[BamaLefty]

1. I like the idea.

Go Gore Go!

[mirandapriestly]

2. I just looked at it for a few minutes

it looks like it's kind of an "intelligent" news magazine show, if that makes any sense. They were doing a segment on a young woman who went to Harvard Divinity school and was going to "break down gender barriers" in her Texas church by preaching there. It looked like they were also going to do something on the poverty and situation in Africa, which is something I NEVER see on television. They just showed a quick blurb of that. I'm irritated by the "youthful" emphasis, why isn't it for everybody? I think it is a mistake to market only to youth, what is the point of that? They can target youth, but they don't have to say it, why lose viewers? It looks good, I hope it will show controversial subject matter and I really hope they will do some exposes, but it doesn't sound like it.

[Maddy McCall]

3. They also were talking about "egg donors for profit"

That's certainly controversial. I think it will carry more political tones later.