Current TV Acquired by Al Jazeera

Al Gore cable net indie no longer; deal could radically improve distribution for Arab news channel

Al Jazeera has acquired Al Gore's struggling cable channel Current TV and will use it to expand its domestic footprint.

The eye-opening move gives Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based news network responsible for much of the in-depth reporting on the beginning of the Arab Spring revolutions in 2010 and 2011, domain over Current, which was briefly the home of Keith Olbermann and now features the likes of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm.

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