By Steve Huff 4/05/12 1:05am

TV

Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann)

Schadenfreude Alert For Keith Olbermann: Will Low Viewer Numbers Kill Current TV?

Former Vice President Al Gore’s pet TV project, Current TV, is in the news for all the wrong reasons these days. Current, which Mr. Gore and business partner Joel Hyatt seek to turn into a rival to the likes of MSNBC, just fired firebrand Keith Olbermann for, well, being Keith Olbermann, and Mr. Olbermann will likely sue them for the pleasure. Now Reuters reports via “three sources with knowledge of the situation” that Current may not meet Time Warner Cable’s “minimum threshold” for average number of viewers per quarter: Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 7/29/11 9:01am

The Schmear

Morning Links: BSkyB Still Loves James Murdoch

Prometheus Media, which owns The Hollywood Reporter and Adweek, is launching an entertainment division that will take CEO Richard Beckman out of the country “for a considerable about of time,” reports WWD.

Amazon has brokered a deal with NBCUniversal’s Universal Pictures for their streaming service, which will come free with Amazon Prime membership, according to Read More

By Joe Hagan 4/12/04 12:00am

Gore’s TV Dream Stumbles; Partner Searches for Money

On Friday, April 2, the nearly year-long bid by former Vice President Al Gore and his business partner Joel Hyatt to buy TV channel Newsworld International, or NWI, from Vivendi Universal-which looked like a done deal a few days before-stumbled into the twin state of which Mr. Gore must have had his fill: uncertainty and Read More

By Joe Hagan 4/05/04 12:00am

Gore TV Deal Is Stalled At The 11th Hour; Major Investor Pulls Out

The Observer has learned that the deal for former Vice President Al Gore and his business partner Joel Hyatt to acquire digital-cable channel Newsworld International (NWI) has hit a major obstacle and may have fallen through in the 11th hour of negotiations.

Sources familiar with the situation said that one of Mr. Gore’s crucial investors Read More