Politics: Al Gore's Current TV putting itself up for sale | CainTV

Founded in 2005 by Al Gore, Current TV quickly made a name for itself as a go-to source for environmental incoherence, Democrat lunacy, and far-left diatribes. If providing an outlet for liberal kooks was the goal, it succeeded admirably. However, if it was trying to attract viewers, well, it's had some difficulty. Now, it's up for sale.
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The network began its life by focusing on young, high school and college age, liberals. Predictably, its early crusade against global warming failed to attract eyeballs, so it began to reinvent itself as a standard, left-wing, talking head channel - packed with a host of zany pundits that even MSNBC had rejected.
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All of these programs boast ratings which are regularly dwarfed by those earned by Dukes of Hazzard reruns.

Current reaches approximately 60 million homes, earning 12 cents per cable subscriber or a little more than $80 million a year. It generates a measly $16 million a year in advertising revenue.