Al Gore and Google Founder Star - Television Business

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Al Gore (inventor of the Internet) and Google co-founder to target Young Liberals with their Television Station's format -- Interesting, IMO this will flop, but the losses could be a good tax break for Sergey Brin. -- what do you all think?

The rest will be more traditional shows developed under the direction of David Neuman, Current's president of programming, whose resume includes stints at CNN and Walt Disney Television. The channel also has established a partnership with the Google search engine, which will provide twice-an-hour updates on viewers' top Internet searches.


Sergey Brin, the 31-year-old co-founder of Google, praised the channel as an effective way to distribute video in a way that frees it from the limited bandwidth and other technological challenges that has kept it from being widely available on the Web.

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