XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE MARCH 30, 2004 21:56:05 ET XXXXX
PAPER: GORE SET TO CLOSE DEAL ON CABLE TV CHANNEL
The NEW YORK OBSERVER will report on Wednesday that former Vice President Al
Gore will close the deal to buy his own cable TV channel this week!
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Mr. Gore and his business partner, entreprenuer and Democratic fundraiser
Joel Hyatt, will acquire Newsworld International for around $70 million from
Vivendi. The Observer will also report that Mr. Gore approached French-owned
Vivendi through French President Jacques Chirac in 2003, hoping to get a
better deal from Vivendi CEO Jean-Rene Fourtou. That resulted in a meeting
with Universal Television executives and the COO of Vivendi in the summer of
2003.
From newspaper copy, obtained by DRUDGE:
"Mr. Gore's group plans to transform the sleepy foreign-news outlet into a
youth-oriented public-affairs channel, a jump-cut news network for the iPod
set. Despite vociferous claims that the network isnt' attempting to be the
liberal antidote to Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, it's difficult to ignore the
obvious: It may be fair, it may be balanced, buti it's going to be owned by
Al Gore."
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