Current TV Approved by CRTC
Current TV has been granted a channel license by the CRTC.
In Current TV will be joint venture between Al Gore’s Current TV channel and the CBC. According to the CRTC decision the CBC owns an 80 per cent interest of Current TV’s Canadian branch corporation.
Current TV is a hybrid television network and web site that airs both content submitted by users and professionally produced content. The web site ranks the online submissions. The most popular have the greatest chance of making it to air. To comply with the CRTC license, 35 per cent of the user-submitted content must be Canadian.
CBC now requires approval from the Treasury Board in order to proceed with launching the channel. This application is expected to take place in the fall.
The full details of the license decision are available here.
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We must remember that Current TV is inspired in part by ZeD. Remember ZeD?
Everything old…
It’s hard to forget ZeD, now that my erstwhile local has been overrun by coked-up flash designers who harangue me about it if I’m foolish enough to mention a CBC connection.
This would also be at least the 3rd attempt at something like this, the 2nd being Exposure.
Al Jazeera English. We want Al Jazeera English!
Why is this up on my Google Home Page? You people know what you want readers to say, and if they don’t say that, then you erase their words. Get off my Google Page. Find another puppet.
This is nothing like ZeD or Exposure. ZeD was way more artsy-try-to-hard-to-be-cool CBC change the funding hub material. Exposure was a little more outreach, but faux. Current is its namesake, current. As in, citizen journalism. I remember pitching ZeD and my stuff was never experimental enough. Current is a perfect fit for the ceeb and the only pisser is that I just pitched this idea two weeks ago to Tom Anniko for online saying it needed a citizen journalism foundation.
I hope this goes well. Unfortunately it’s on a pricey digital tier here in Seattle, Wash. so I cannot regularly view it. When I remember I try to check out the Web site. They had a hilarious commentary on Twitter a while back.
Will CurrentTV have both a Canadian and a U.S. feed?