http://www.nypost.com/business/10767.htm DILLER BLOCKING GORE'S CABLE BUY
November 14, 2003 --
Al Gore is having serious trouble getting on TV.
The former vice president has desperately been trying to buy a small cable news channel for $70 million but is getting blocked by mogul Barry Diller.
Diller holds veto power over any sale of the channel, News World International, and says he wants to hold up the deal, but only for business reasons.
Gore intends to create a liberal cable news channel for young people.
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Former AOL Time Warner COO Bob Pittman is said to be advising Gore on creating his youth-oriented channel. The advice ranges from how to pick a studio to what kind of music to play.
Gore's advisers are reportedly bickering over where to locate the network. Joel Hyatt, a big-time Democratic Party fundraiser and Gore's main financial backer, wants the channel in San Francisco, while others want New York. Two names for the channel are being debated: "The Indie Channel" and "VTV."
Orville Schell, an adviser to the group and the dean of the University of California's Graduate School of Journalism, told TVGuide.com that the network targets "young people interested in the world who don't want their news dumbed down."Paul Tharp
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Note on spin: Post writer says it's a "liberal news channel" while the Schell quote...and others we've seen before...say it's a news channel for youth and truth, NOT a liberal station per se.....