Trump Qatar Hollywood reports president Fox Trump Qatar

Trump’s TV Mogul Dream: Playing Out Several Paths

Reading now: 271
hollywoodreporter.com

A hotly contested presidential election. A candidate refusing to concede until the courts sealed his fate. The loser left licking his chops, ultimately securing financing to turn his political base into an audience for a new cable TV channel.

The candidate? Former vice president and 2000 Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore. The channel? Current TV. The end result?

Cultural irrelevance but a nine-figure payday when the channel sold to Al Jazeera for $500 million in 2012 as the Qatar-based outlet bought itself distribution through Current’s 40 million U.S.

households. Current TV had the good fortune of breaking into cable when carriage fees flowed freely and advertiser demand for TV was nearly unlimited.

Read more on hollywoodreporter.com
The website starsalert.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA