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is a youth-oriented cable television network and website co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore.

The network airs original news and entertainment programming with a heavy emphasis on viewer participation, including , a documentary series produced by young journalists. It was as “MTV without the music” at its launch in August 2005.

to include cable and satellite providers that reach 60 million American households, as well as providers in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Italy.

Until a format change in 2009, Current aired short features called “pods,” many of them created by viewers and voted up by users of current.com. After Gore and co-founder Joel Hyatt reportedly , Current underwent an overhaul, , canceling some programs, and introducing traditional 30- to 60-minute time slots.

In April 2011, after severing his contract with MSNBC, he would take his news and opinion program, Countdown, to Current TV. Olbermann was named the network’s chief news officer. He was .

Cable giant of Current’s parent company, Current Media.

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Fox News, MSNBC, CNN

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July 10, 2018 / Nicholas Quah

The Washington Post wants to figure out the best places to put ads in your favorite podcasts — Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 168, published July 10, 2018. Into the Woods. The rollout for Crooked Media’s first audio documentary, The Wilderness, began yesterday with the launch ...

July 25, 2017 / Nicholas Quah

What’s coming next in podcast adaptations: Adaptations of other forms of media to podcasts — Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 129, published July 25, 2017. Hey folks! We’re talking about adaptations, once again. Gimlet wraps a big week for Homecoming. In the same week that th...

July 26, 2016 / Nicholas Quah

Hot Pod: Are too many people skipping the ads in podcasts? — Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue eighty, published July 26, 2016. Ad-skipping. I wasn’t able to cover this last week, but it’s a topic you shouldn’t sleep on: The Wall Stre...

Nov. 24, 2015 / Nicholas Quah

Hot Pod: Revisiting the question: Why doesn’t audio go viral? — Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is Issue Fifty, published November 24, 2015. Why audio doesn’t go viral, revisited. Do you remember what you were doing back in January 2014? I do. I was freezi...

July 16, 2015 / Shan Wang

How KPCC in Los Angeles grew its Latino listenership while trying to keep its traditional audience — In California, Latinos now outnumber whites as the largest ethnic group in the state, and Los Angeles County is home to the largest Latino population of any county in the United States. To better match these shifting dem...

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