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Current TV being pulled by Time Warner

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willdav713

Looks like I get an late Christmas present!!! Time Warner is announcing they are pulling the plug on Current TV.

I need to know if it is still in Austin, TX market? If it isn't I plan to upgrade from Digital Standard to Digital Tier, and purchase more of their Time Warner's products.

I need to go to the service center on Stassney today, to pick up some equipment. I will ask them for confirmation of this news. Their answer will depend on upgrading the services so I can watch the Texas House and Senate channel along with CSPAN 2 and CSPAN 3!!!
 
Current is not alone. Last month TWC said they were looking at dropping several low-rated channels. I think they're scrounging for bandwidth to divert to more lucrative products.
 
tested said:
They yanked it because it was bought by Al Jazeera. The entire Current TV lineup is a goner.
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That's all we need is another damn spanish channel.
 
charles123 said:
tested said:
They yanked it because it was bought by Al Jazeera. The entire Current TV lineup is a goner.
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That's all we need is another damn spanish channel.
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Assuming that post wasn't intended as a sarcasm, Al Jazeera is not Spanish. It is a Middle Eastern all news service and broadcasts world wide in a variety of languages. The variety we see here is in English and is as professional as any of our network news services. I am not a regular viewer of Al Jazeera but did tune in for awhile to see if their offerings were slanted towards any particular political end. I did not see that. I would submit they used the BBC as their model and their presentation is very similar.
 
Absolutely correct, sir. The...dare I use the word...hatred that Time Warner seems to have for Al Jazeera English is nothing short of amazing.
 
Yea, the phone app (for Android at least) could be marginal. But the on-air presentation, as seen on DirecTV's channel 2183, is usually top notch.
 
mmnassour said:
Yea, the phone app (for Android at least) could be marginal. But the on-air presentation, as seen on DirecTV's channel 2183, is usually top notch.
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Well, actually it was the TV programming I was talking about. You can watch the channel's english feed on the app. I think they're probably pretty good compared to other foreign networks.. but they don't compare to US production values or journalistic quality.
 
tested said:
Well, actually it was the TV programming I was talking about. You can watch the channel's english feed on the app. I think they're probably pretty good compared to other foreign networks.. but they don't compare to US production values or journalistic quality.
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I don't know where you're watching the news but what I see, both local and national, I would not hold up as the epitome of professionalism.
 
The original poster on this thread seems very excited because a channel he did not like is being pulled. Well, he certainly has that right. I wish we had received Current TV here in my apartment complex. I sure would have watched it.

(And since I have not taken up the hobby of quilting, I think directTV should cancel PBS, since they have a quilting show. And I never, ever watch the Golf channel, I really do think it should be banned from all American television sets.

Hopefully, ya'll get my sarcasm.)

Of course, Warner Cable is not pulling Current. Current is folding. Its assets have been sold. And rightfully so, as, like the original poster testified, it had very few viewers, as low as about 40,000 at time. That was pitiful for a national cable network. Al Jaazerra, in most systems, will then appear in its place. At first, Time Warner said "Not on our systems" but today's news is that that may have been a pre-mature statement. Time Warner is reconsidering.
 
Henry McClurg said:
The original poster on this thread seems very excited because a channel he did not like is being pulled. Well, he certainly has that right. I wish we had received Current TV here in my apartment complex. I sure would have watched it.

(And since I have not taken up the hobby of quilting, I think directTV should cancel PBS, since they have a quilting show. And I never, ever watch the Golf channel, I really do think it should be banned from all American television sets.

Hopefully, ya'll get my sarcasm.)

Of course, Warner Cable is not pulling Current. Current is folding. Its assets have been sold. And rightfully so, as, like the original poster testified, it had very few viewers, as low as about 40,000 at time. That was pitiful for a national cable network. Al Jaazerra, in most systems, will then appear in its place. At first, Time Warner said "Not on our systems" but today's news is that that may have been a pre-mature statement. Time Warner is reconsidering.
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If Current TV was offered on a subscription only basis (like HBO), I would have a different tune. It is my opinion that we have too many left wing channels, and this one was the worst of them. It is bad enough I have to pay for MSNBC and part of my cable subscription pays Chris Matthews. I never did care for Al Gore. There seems to be no channel that I know of on cable that offers a viewpoint for moderate or centrists. Fox is right wing focused and the only cable network that is vs. 4 different left wing focused channels (including Current)

Cable Television since know it can be all digital, they should offer "News Package" "Super station Package" "Family Package" and leave the basic broadcast, PEG channels, be the minimum level of service. ESPN and Golf should go premium. ESPN costs the most to carry.
 
I must be missing all of those "left wing channels."

MSNBC leans left
Fox leans right
CNN is fairly centrist.

Current was left leaning, but is going off air. That would make at most, 2 "left wing" channels.
 
stevensonair said:
I must be missing all of those "left wing channels."

MSNBC leans left
Fox leans right
CNN is fairly centrist.

Current was left leaning, but is going off air. That would make at most, 2 "left wing" channels.
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CNN is centrist? maybe in the 90's with the show "Crossfire" and "Larry King Live?"

1. Current (now or soon to be defunct)
2. MSNBC
3. HLN
4. CNN
5. CNBC
 
Er, which CNN are you watching? CNN is very centrist, to a fault. Any time I look at CNN, unless they're doing an actual news report, I see two people on opposite sides, with nobody injecting facts into any of the yelling back and forth, until the end of the segment where "we have to leave it there." If I wanted to see two people arguing pointlessly, I don't have to pay for CNN to see that.

- Trip
 
I am happy to see Current TV go. That is one less channel that is a waste of bandwidth.

Here is my list of other channels that can go too:

Any news channel except for one of them and I don't know which one.
The never ending shopping channels.
Every channel Discovery has except the Discovery Channel and TLC
History 2 and Military Channel
NatGeo
TruTV
Spike

Oh sorry that is pretty much all of cable. It is a vast wasteland and I don't subscribe.
 
I have said before that I always felt Fox News would violate truth in labeling regs since less than 50% of the content is actually news. Of course there are no truth in labeling laws for cable channels. But Fox News and MSNBC have built their audiences with talk shows, not news broadcasts.
 
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