Current TV’s last-ditch efforts to save its left-leaning Italian-language network, Current Italy, have failed and the channel will go dark this Sunday, according to an internal memo sent out to staffers by Current co-founder and CEO Joel Hyatt this morning.
“It is with great sadness and frustration that I must inform all of you that Current Italy will go off the air and cease operations on Sunday,” Hyatt wrote.
In recent months, Current had been engaged in a protracted and public battle with News Corp.,
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