Olbermann, the actual controversial broadcaster who abruptly exited MSNBC final month, announced Tuesday morning that he will join Current TV, the particular little-watched but rapidly growing cable outlet founded by former Vice President Gore and legal entrepreneur Joel Hyatt.
Current's audience is so tiny that the actual network was not even officially measured by the actual Nielsen Co. until late final year. Until now, the network was best known with regard to its reporters Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who were detained for five months by North Korean authorities within 2009 until former President Bill Clinton, along with whom Gore served, helped arrange their release.
Olbermann will later this spring host a great as-yet untitled nightly program on Current and also become chief news officer and also take a good equity stake in the network. He said within a teleconference that he was looking forward to a platform offering "news produced independently of corporate interference."
Current, which is actually available inside nearly 60 million U.S. cable and satellite homes and also has 15 million a lot more subscribers internationally, is any private company and does not report financial results. But the particular network — originally envisioned as the clearinghouse of news and also information for viewers aged 18 to be able to 34, any sort of CNN for the MTV generation — will be supported by advertising and is seeking broader support among cable carriers as well as any larger audience.
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