CurrentTV, the San Francisco cable and Internet video channel co-founded by former Vice PresidentAl Gore, on Wednesday cut 80 workers and announced a big shift in its programing strategy. CurrentMedia Inc. said the company is moving CurrentTV away …
Read Original Story: Gore's Current TV cuts 80 workers – San Francisco Chronicle
by Caroline mccarthy Maybe it hasn’t worked so well to mesh the short-video-clip culture of the Web with traditionalcable news: CurrentMedia, the edgy cable company co-founded by former Vice PresidentAl Gore, announced Wednesday it has laid off 80 …
Read Original Story: Current Media lays off 80, cancels shows – CNET News
CurrentTV, the cable channel founded by former Vice PresidentAl Gore, laid off about 20 percent of its work force Wednesday. (LR) Journalist Laura Ling cries as she talks with sister/journalist Lisa Ling …
Read Original Story: Current TV lays off eighty workers – Monsters and Critics.com
Former Vice PresidentAlGore’s San Francisco cable and Internet video channel, CurrentTV, announced a shift in its programming and laid off 80 workers on Wednesday. The cuts largely affected workers at its Los Angeles based production and programming …
Read Original Story: Current TV Cuts Back on Workers – TheCelebrityCafe.com
CurrentTV has confirmed that 80 people are being let go, leaving the company with 300 employees worldwide. Most of the layoffs are in CurrentTV’s LA office where much of the San Francisco company’s production had been moved. According to a NewTeeVee …
Read Original Story: Layoffs, cancellations at Al Gore's Current TV – San Francisco Chronicle
CurrentMedia said it would shed 80 people, confirming earlier reports, and will make its unconventional format more boringly traditional. This might sound bad. But the San Francisco cable network assures us it is evidence of amazing success! …
Read Original Story: Al Gore's TV Network Firing 80 People Due to Wild Success – Gawker
Roughly 90 days into Mark Roshenthal’s tenure as CEO of CurrentMedia, the company’s cable network is dropping short-form programming and some of its in-house originals in favor of more traditional show lengths and acquisitions. …
Read Original Story: Current TV Moves Away From Signature Short-Form Programming; 80 Jobs Cut – paidContent.org
What’s being described as a "major bloodbath," both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Current offices plan on snipping 80 employees, which will bring their entire staff to somewhere around 300. This comes on the heels of news that AlGore’smedia…
Read Original Story: Making More Money Than Ever Before, Current Plans Massive Layoffs – SFist
After years of trying to establish itself as a channel by and for youths, the cable network is canceling three shows and letting go 80 employees as it moves toward more traditional programming. By Joe Flint and Meg James When Al Gore unveiled his …
Read Original Story: Current TV to shift from video format – Los Angeles Times
CurrentMedia is revising its strategy. Less short-form video. Less in-house production. More 30- and 60-minute shows. More acquisition of shows from outside companies. Chief Operating Officer Joanna Drake Earl told …
Read Original Story: Current Media Revising Strategy, Moving Away From Short-Form and Daily In … – BayNewser
