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To: greenspirit who wrote (143868)	10/20/2005 12:35:44 PM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 793931

Gore pushes Comcast to carry his TV channel By Tony Gnoffo INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Unhappy that Comcast Corp. has declined to carry their youth-oriented television network, Al Gore and law mogul Joel Hyatt will try to draw a crowd of supporters to Dilworth Plaza today, 35 stories below the offices of Comcast chairman Brian L. Roberts. The network created by Gore and Hyatt, Current TV, aims at an audience between 18 and 34 with a menu of viewer-produced programs that have the look and feel video "podcasts." Viewers can show their own productions on the network, if their work gets a green light from registered visitors to the network's Web site, www.current.tv. Current TV is carried on satellite distributor DirecTV. Comcast carries the network only on a handful of its systems that were contractually obligated to carry the content of Current's predecessor, a Canadian news network. Owners of another would-be cable network, the America Channel, have also complained about not being able to get on Comcast systems, which provide television service to about one out of five U.S. households. Comcast, they complain, will only carry networks that it owns or that are owned by other big media companies such as Time Warner Inc. Comcast officials have said ownership stakes have nothing to do with their network selections. Rather, they say, their decisions are based on what they believe their subscribers want to see. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact staff writer Tony Gnoffo at 215-854-2466 or tgnoffo@phillynews.com.