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June 11, 2007

Canadian Gorecasting Corporation

Via reader Ian, who writes;

We, (the Canadian taxpayer) are funding and producing anti-bush, anti-war propoganda for the Democrat Party OUTSIDE the rules of US Campaign Finance Law.

CBC (May 4);
Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore is one of the new owners of 24-hour television channel Newsworld International.

Gore is buying the channel with entrepreneur Joel Hyatt, a former finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee.

The sale price for the channel was not disclosed, although the Wall Street Journal reported last October that Gore's group was negotiating to buy it for about $70 million US.

Started by CBC in 1994, and most recently owned by Vivendi Universal, Newsworld International is available in about 17 million U.S. homes. The channel has had several owners since it was started. U.S. cable mogul Barry Diller bought it about three years ago and later sold out to Vivendi.


The article goes on to quote Gore (who will serve as board chairman and devote most of his time to the channel) as saying "This will not be a political network."

Yet the same report states programming on the channel "will continue to be provided by CBC".

So, which is it?

Posted by Kate at June 11, 2007 11:01 AM
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At least one can hope the CBC is actually making some of its own money off this? Right? (Yes, I am sure it is actually losing money)

In other news, J Cherniak was nice enough to point out a Young Liberals Petition trying to unseat Tories in NS!

http://www.petitiononline.com/nsaccord/petition.html

Posted by: Darren K at June 11, 2007 1:39 PM

Well lets see if they listen to this provider of funding versus the largest provide rof funding, the taxpayer.

It will feedback into the CBC to provide appropriate content.....which is fine if it is bought and paid for by outside money....just not CBC money to produce the content for the Goreacle

Posted by: Stephen at June 11, 2007 1:49 PM

"This will not be a political network."

Hmmm, let me guess, a 24/7 GW weather channel for his disciples maybe? That he is outsourcing the lefty swill to the CBC is no surprise.

17 million homes, out of that maybe a viewership of 250,000, if he's lucky.

I thought Gore had a cable network before and it flopped. I pity the suckers that fund this endeavor. But, taking money from lefties is easy. They can't be bankrupted fast enough.

Posted by: penny at June 11, 2007 1:51 PM

CBCpravda in the US , how much of the nature of things and Dr.Bono Suzuki can they stand.

Posted by: cal2 at June 11, 2007 1:53 PM

70 million.

Advocating for Kyoto must pay REALLY well, no?

Posted by: Warwick at June 11, 2007 1:54 PM

Just when I think I saw it all, the world surprises me once again.

...Advocating for Kyoto must pay REALLY well, no?..

It's the carbon offset fraud, sorry - business, that pays obviously. He sold his own carbon offsets to himself, now he can advertise them to a broader audience than his family.

Posted by: Aaron at June 11, 2007 2:06 PM

"This will not be a political network."

"programming on the channel "will continue to be provided by CBC".

I guess Al just doesn't see the joke here.

Posted by: dmorris at June 11, 2007 2:14 PM

Sounds like a 'money laundering scheme' !!

Oh well, Big Al has to pay his heating bills some how.

His fetish died at the G8. The jig is up on the Kyoto Kult. Can't kram the karbon anymore.

Sooooo, he looks around for the latest/greatest dupe partner and .... and ... PRESTO !! The CBC. It was inevitable.

In the end, everything makes sense.

Posted by: ron in kelowna at June 11, 2007 2:56 PM

The joke may be on Al Gore. His co-ownership of CBC Newsworld International means that he's a bawss...or, as CBC staff more genteely prefers to call them, "brass."

I suspect, given CBC culture, that Mr. Gore's going to have his patience tested soon...

Posted by: Daniel M. Ryan at June 11, 2007 3:12 PM

it is bad enough that I am forced at gunpoint to give half my income to support the plethora of trough wallowers, career consultants, professional disability claimants, welfare fraud artists, and the numerous groups who waste money like it's not their own. but that eco-pig(by my calculations, that pig has a bigger carbon footprint than my whole family) , the goracle????? please tell me it is not true

Posted by: kingstonlad at June 11, 2007 3:18 PM

Where's the outrage at the 'hollowing out' of Canada?

A division of a Canadian company sold to a foreigner? why I declare, I'm getting the vapors...

What hypocrites.

Posted by: Robert at June 11, 2007 3:21 PM

"CBC(May 4)"

May 4, 2004....Scraping the bottom of the barrel, Kate? But then it don't take much to get your knuckle-draggers foaming at the mouth.

Posted by: rod at June 11, 2007 4:14 PM

...woof woof, arrrrrrrrrg, ajdkalfjdfkl...drool

There now, did I do a good impression of the zombies in 28 Days Later?

Posted by: tomax7 at June 11, 2007 4:58 PM

the CBCpravda staffers have a history of biting the hand that feeds them, well at least if its a conservative hand.

maybe Al Gore can be shifted to care about lactating mothers and Rufus Wainwright and "for profit healthcare"

Posted by: cal2 at June 11, 2007 5:15 PM

CBC will get my support when it stops taking itself so seriously and stops preachint to me....even the dam comedy shows are semons on PC thought and idealism....just to toxically sanctimonious to bother with...I watch HNIC and...that's all there is for anyone who is not a partisan indoctrinate.

The small narrow audience and narrow programming focus do not justify the budget this monster chews up...either make programming for a broad appeal to all Canadians or fold it up....but ferkrissake lose the preachy sanctimony in public affairs programming its more boring and single minded than cold war era east block TV.

Posted by: WL Mackenzie Redux at June 11, 2007 5:29 PM

Well, if it's privatized, the CBC will end up in private hands - someone's hands. I wonder what person, or group, would be the ideal new owners of the "Pink Elephant" network...

Posted by: Daniel M. Ryan at June 11, 2007 5:39 PM

I'm having a tough time wading through the irony!

Posted by: OMMAG at June 11, 2007 5:40 PM

Since the article is three years old I thought I would look to see how the station has done: From Wiki:
Newsworld International

Some of CBC Newsworld's programming also aired on the now-defunct Newsworld International, an American cable news network co-owned by the CBC and the Power Corporation of Canada. However, CBC Newsworld also produced some programming for Newsworld International, and scheduled programming from other news networks, which did not air on the Canadian channel. Newsworld International was sold to Vivendi Universal in 2000, and sold again to Al Gore and Joel Hyatt in 2004. Newsworld continued to provide the network's programming until Gore and Hyatt launched their own network, Current TV, on August 1, 2005.
Newsworld also carried some news and lifestyle programming from BBC World.

It other words it is no longer on the air as Newsworld.

Posted by: kevink at June 11, 2007 5:50 PM

"it don't take much"

It "doesn't" take much. BTW, using both knuckle dragging and mouth foaming is cumbersome and defeats the clarifying purpose of a metaphor.

Posted by: dean spencer - fox at June 11, 2007 6:31 PM

"BTW, using both knuckle dragging and mouth foaming is cumbersome..."

Only to someone who can't read without moving their lips, but I'll type slower next time.

Posted by: rod at June 11, 2007 7:20 PM

Iowahawk says he is running for U.S. prez. Part of his platform is to turn Gore's mansion into a dragracing strip, as it is more ecologically friendly than its present use.

Posted by: Tom at June 11, 2007 7:46 PM

TEE-HEE, rod is funny.......

Posted by: aj in calgary at June 11, 2007 7:48 PM

For the naysayers-

http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/schedule/dailySchedule.jsp?network=CBC%20Newsworld

Posted by: Ian Vaughan at June 11, 2007 7:51 PM

"BTW, using both knuckle dragging and mouth foaming is cumbersome and defeats the clarifying purpose of a metaphor."

Ha! You talk like those cavemen on the teevee!

Posted by: John at June 11, 2007 8:06 PM

The real question:

Is Al Gore an artist or ape?

Ape.

Posted by: Farmer Ben at June 11, 2007 9:09 PM

naw ben he is an artist, CON ARTIST that is...

Posted by: FREE at June 11, 2007 9:23 PM

Autistic Ape maybe? Or in unPC terms Idiot Democrap?

Syncro

Posted by: Syncrodox at June 11, 2007 9:36 PM

owned by CBC and PowerCorp. how incestuous can you get?

Posted by: cal2 at June 11, 2007 11:31 PM

the biggest piece of leftist fawning since Trudeau did his homoerotic biography of Castro.


http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_mallick/20070608.html

CBCpravda "All Liberal, All the time"

Posted by: cal2 at June 11, 2007 11:38 PM

idiot democracy is common among the knuckle draggers, I'd venture so far as to say it's rampant!
the question being..who are the knuckle draggers?

Posted by: kelly at June 11, 2007 11:38 PM

Just what we need 24 hours of listening to AL GORE blabbering his rediclous malarkey luckly there are many other different station to listen to other then MR HOT AIR

Posted by: spurwing plover at June 12, 2007 12:25 AM

So the CBC and Al Gore are together at last. I can't wait to see what sort of emissions this match produces. Or offspring, for that matter.

Posted by: Blackadder at June 12, 2007 3:40 AM

Y'all better brace for the Goring y'all are going to get from Gaseous Al, his ol' eyeballs are a'bulgein'.

Gaseous Al knows little of Newsworld CBC, take away the politics and what's left?

Posted by: Liz J at June 12, 2007 7:51 AM

The station was sold by CBC long before Gore bought it from Vivendi in 2004. I fail to see the story here and it does little to show a connection between Gore and CBC. The CBC story is 3 years old and the station is now a completley different format.

Posted by: kevink at June 12, 2007 9:16 AM

How many kilowatt hours will Hot Air Al be using while he is blabbering like he dose?

Posted by: spurwing plover at June 12, 2007 10:46 AM

I'm confused. I used to work for Newsworld International. It was sold to Gore but he turned it into CurrentTV (or something) and the CBC was shown the door. That was two years ago!

Posted by: omega at June 13, 2007 9:23 AM

I heard that AL GORE got lost in the woods and they had to send in the secret service to find him but it must have been pretty easy once their tracked down where all the animals were snoring

Posted by: spurwing plover at June 13, 2007 10:54 AM

Politics Watch is running another great story on the CBC and the Conservative government's inaction on privatization.

CBC not yet for sale under Harper Tories
by Romeo St. Martin
PoliticsWatch.com

OTTAWA — "I'd like to put a 'For sale' sign on the CBC. We don't need it."
-Conservative MP Myron Thompson, Moose Jaw Times-Herald, June 18, 1994

After nearly 18 months with the Conservative government in power, Thompson's "For Sale" sign is not yet hanging on CBC facilities in communities across the country.

The complete story is at:

http://www.politicswatch.com/cbc-june12-2007.htm

Posted by: luv CBC at June 13, 2007 12:53 PM
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