Current’ TV Likened to Blog TV

By now, you’ve all heard Al Gore is behind the year old operation called Current, formerly known as INdTV. The thrust of the new cable network, to be piped via cable to 20 million homes in August, is people-produced content. The network, through its Current Studio, will provide support to those who wish to create content which will be segmented into Current Soul, Current Gigs, Current Fashion, Current Lies, Current Tech as well as news supplied by Google.

Nick Mathisen, writing on The Ill Quill, likens this approach to blogging and calls it Blog TV. It’s an apt analogy and Current is enabling the spread of consumer-created content to another medium: television. While it’s unlikely the country will completely ween itself from the likes of ‘Desperate Housewives,’ ‘Lost’ or ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ but the content offered through Current will be dramatically new, different and certainly intriguing. And no, just like the Internet, Al Gore did not invent Current either.

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