Current.com Blog | September 20, 2011 | 295 comments

What do you think of our new addition: Cenk Uygur and 'The Young Turks'?

By now you've heard the news that Cenk Uygur and "The Young Turks" are coming to Current TV. "The Young Turks" will air at 7/6c, leading into "Countdown with Keith Olbermann."

If you haven't seen it yet, click here to check out the video of our Co-Founder, former Vice President Al Gore, welcoming Cenk to Current.

There, you can also see Cenk's bio and get more information about the "The Young Turks," the newest addition to our growing primetime lineup that is focused on political analysis and news commentary.

Tell us what you think!

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295 comments // What do you think of our new addition: Cenk Uygur and 'The Young Turks'?

  • jc911truth
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      jc911truth  

    • I saw the show today with Al Gore. I like the format but feel like Cenk and crew are learning to walk all over again. It will take a few months for everybody to get acclimated...still liked the show though. Three cheers to Cenk and company! Take no prisoners!

    • 6 months ago
  • seanicker
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      seanicker  

    • There is so much news but only one hour with Keith. A great hour, indeed, but it's only one.

      Please speed up Cenk's debut on Current TV.
      I refuse to watch the "big three" cable stations, and I know I'm not the only one out here who feels that way.

      You do have an audience but we need more programming. Bring on Cenk, and, and, and ;)

    • 6 months ago
  • Elderlady
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      Elderlady  

    • Drumming fingers on desk...........waiting.......waiting......
      When's this going to happen?
      Keith Olbermann has done an outstanding job.... with trying to bring us the news.....
      However, there is so much going on these days..... Occupy...... a primary.... an upcoming election.....

      For current to competently cover all this news....... will take more than one hour, and one show.......

      Waiting.......... waiting......

    • 7 months ago
  • glorybee
  • justhuman
  • Mark_Harlow
  • Mark_Harlow
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      Mark_Harlow  

    • In re: Adding "TYT" is a great idea!! I'll watch even more often. True journalism is what the public needs, not slanted journalism. Thank you CURRENT!!

    • 7 months ago
  • dougiefla
  • jvaljon1
  • Flute
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      Flute  
    • jvaljon1:

      Current has already set up a twitter account for the Young Turks and say that they would announce the premire date soon. Cenk answered a twitters question saying that it would start in late November. So that means either the 21st and 28th.

    • 7 months ago
  • Richard_Callaway
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      Flute  
    • Richard_Callaway:

      you need to call your cable company about that. The cable companies control the channel. Current has what needs to broadcast it expect the channel. So call your cable company and have your friends call and demand that they give Current the channel. Once they cable companies get the channel, they will be able to broadcast in HD

    • 7 months ago
  • twez
  • kaciyas
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      kaciyas  

    • All I need know is access to all your content online. I've done away with my cable/satellite bill, give me a place to send those monies to you.

    • 7 months ago
  • bubba42
  • fcat
  • jbopi
  • dougiefla
  • jbopi
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      jbopi  

    • Awesome...I have been waiting for this to happen. NOW, don't turn Current into another MSNBC just on another station...don't let this channel become a wing of the Democratic Party--keep it Progressive.

    • 7 months ago
  • Tracey_Baker_Squiers
  • Flute
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    • Tracey_Baker_Squiers:

      to me it fells like everytime I hear MSNBC I want to vomit. I cannot and will not want to watch that channel, it just become corporae established and to me also a entirainment channel because I hate shouting matches and was getting tired and angry at Odonell and Shultz for doing that also. Mathews is just hopeless. Current is going be the real progressive channel that we want. It the only channel that I will watch.

    • 7 months ago
  • intro
  • Flute
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      Flute  
    • intro:

      Current once the channel is set, is really going to out run MSNBC in my opoin. Griffen really screwed up that channel and MSNBC really needs to fire him, but he will stay. I know never to trust sites like Meidate which liked to bash Olbermann make it out that he owned the station when in truth the one that runs that station is Scarbough. I found it out when KO got suspended for donations but Scarbough got off scott free and would have unless KO fans had gotten mad and sent Griffen a petition to put him on the air. That was a lame apology Scroubough gave. Showed me what MSNBC really is. Have not missed that station since KO left. Current is were it at.

    • 7 months ago
  • JanK
  • BushSox
  • ilovecenk
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      ilovecenk  

    • I am so happy. While I loved seeing Cenk on MSNBC I missed the TYT format and the rest of the cast. Cenk does best when he has Ana, Jayar and the winning format of the original show. No matter what other changes he makes, I feel that as long as he has his team it will continue to best the best political show around.

    • 7 months ago
  • sundayschild55
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      sundayschild55  

    • Finally we will again have a program that challenges one to think and discuss the issues of the day rather than the brain dead s**t one finds on FoxTV

    • 8 months ago
  • SamuraiDave
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      SamuraiDave  

    • Great stuff but still when are they ever going to bring back Pods, you know Citizen Journalism which was the originally idea of this channel in the first place?

    • 8 months ago
  • salgie
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      salgie  

    • HEY YIA YOU....YOU STOLE ALL MY EXACT THOUGHTS.....I WAS THRILLED WITH KEITH AND NOW AGAIN WITH CENK....I HOPE THE YOUNG TURKS WILL AIR MORE THAN ONCE A DAY. IT IS CONVENIENT TO WATCH KEITH AT VARIOUS TIMES...I LOVE CURRENT TV THEIR DOCS ARE FABULOUS I MISS LAURA LING....HATS OFF TO PRESIDENT GORE,

    • 8 months ago
  • YiaYou
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      YiaYou  

    • What wonderful news!!!!!! First Keith and now Cenk!!!!! I was so in hopes that Cenk would be picked up by Current just like Keith!!!! Thank you President Gore!!!!! Just think what wonderful things he would have done for our Country had he not had the election stolen from him. Shame on those that did it and on those that allowed it to happen!!!!!!

    • 8 months ago
  • wilsonkermit
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      wilsonkermit  

    • I think this is fabulous and it's just what I hoped would happen after Cenk left MSNBC. That's going to be an outstanding news programming line up. This is the 2nd best news I've heard this week Occupy Wall Street was the first. Go Cenk and The Young Turks!

    • 8 months ago
  • Michael_Juras
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      Michael_Juras  

    • Having listened to TYT for at least 10 years, along with Democracy Now!, the body of reportage has yet to cover our critical response to the decline of cheap available energy as it underpins all global transactions and every aspect of contemporary living. As we move through the end of the age of abundance, I'm hoping that Current TV will provide a place where this psychologically difficult subject can be aired. Until then, Cenk and company along with most progressives remain mute on how fossil carbon is the only reason economic growth occurs as we know it ...and how its decline demands a new paradigm for societal progress. Easily counting out federal and state governments providing leadership leaves us with a handful of local governments and all of our communities to effect the least painful path of energy descent. Good luck all and let's get this subject up for discussion at Current TV. Check out Post-Carbon Institute for the basics. The world round there are local people not waiting for policy makers. Current TV would bring a hopeful message in covering these locales here in the US. As was remarked by an advert for a Transition Town conference in SE England, "Throwing fun and collaboration at Peak Oil and Climate Change."

    • 8 months ago
  • fromthatshow
  • tritone
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      tritone  

    • Great news about adding Cenk! I don't know how much it will help ratings at Current as long as they are apparently unable to rise to the production standards of CNN, Fox and particularly MSNBC. IMO, the superb production quality at MSNBC was part of the reason for Keith's success there. The lighting, the sound, the music production, the graphic design, etc. were all "alive" and more "current" than Current. (Check out the new weekend show "Up with Chris Hayes") Watching Keith's show on Current is like watching a dully illuminated re-run from 1995 with poor sound to match. It's as if you transferred a PBS Newshour to VHS videotape and broadcast it in LP mode. Many of the same elements are there as they were at MSNBC but watered down to nearly the level of Amy Goodman's TV show.
      Maybe Cenk's youthful energy will overcome the production shortcomings. However, it does seem to me, in general, that liberals just do not have the vision that Repubs do in terms of paying attention to selling their message. It's like those protesters on Wall Street who are appear to be scruffy hippies in tie-dye and dreadlocks (you can almost smell the marijuana), transported through time to present day New York. If they were serious about getting an important message across, they would try to look more like Jehovah's witnesses or maybe some casual country club types or midwestern farmer salt-of-the earth types. Fox News is a master at composing visuals on a 24/7/365 basis. The conservative media is very good at framing and bumper-stickering narratives. How else could they make middle class people believe that taxing the wealthy just a tad more is evil class warfare or that all health care should be doled out by corporations whose bottom line is increased by denying care?
      Whether liberals are on TV, radio or protesting in the streets, it seems it would really help the cause to be a lot more cognizant of all the superficial details of message presentation.
      It's all about numbers. And demographics. Liberals need to win more percentage points of the electorate. They need to think more like an advertising agency. (Heck, conservatives don't even let things like history, facts or rational thought deter them. It's all sell, sell, sell!)

    • 8 months ago
  • Flute
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      Flute  
    • tritone:

      Wrong
      All that was okay. What made KO a sucess was content which has been so much better at Current, Hayes needs to get to Current if he wants my viewership, MSNBC is a corporate establishment channel, you must live in fantasy world to think that stuff was why KO was sucessful because it was not and never will be as much as you wish it. It was the fact that he spoke and still speaks truth.

    • 7 months ago
  • tritone
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      tritone  
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    • Flute:

      You say,"What made KO a sucess was content which has been so much better at Current..." If better content equates to better ratings than how do account for Keith's poor ratings since leaving MSNBC? Do you not understand that I would be thrilled if Current was to blow away MSNBC or Fox or CNN or whatever?? What I want is for liberal/progressive viewpoints and philosophies to get as big of an audience as possible. Or do you want Keith and Cenk to soldier on with their minimal audiences?
      "For the week of Sept. 5-11, "Countdown" pulled in an average 142,000 total viewers and an average 46,000 adults in the advertising friendly demo of viewers aged 25-54.
      As the NYDN points out this is less than half the viewers "Countdown" attracted in its debut week, during which the show averaged 319,000 total viewers and 114,000 in the demo.
      It's also significantly down from Olby's second week which saw the show down from its debut (as expected) settling in.
      For comparisons sake it's also more than 100,000 less people than signed up for Glenn Beck's new subscription internet show. And a whole lot less than what Lawrence O'Donnell is averaging in Olby's old 8pm time slot (about 175,000 in the demo)."
      http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-09-19/entertainment/30174773_1_current-...
      I don't care what channel gets the message out. The message is the important thing here. I WANT Keith and Cenk to crush Hannity, Beck O'Reilly, etc. Why does Fox have a much larger audience than anyone else? Do you think that is good for liberal progressive agendas? Don't you think that if more people could hear the truth, there might not be as many Republicans in Congress and better policies for the 99% of Americans?
      I don't care if my production suggestions are correct or not. But I'm trying to offer what I think will help with Current's ratings. The most successful left leaning network is MSNBC. Do you think liberal/progressive messaging would be better off WITHOUT Rachel, Ed, O'Donnell, Hayes, etc.?They are in full support of OWS, campaign finance reform (Dylan Ratigan), women's rights, etc. You don't want as much advocacy for these issues as possible?
      That idiot Roger Ailes understands how to get eyes and ears to Fox. I desperately want some liberals to apply some psychology and understanding of human nature to attract more Americans to a Left viewpoint. Dems should study Steve Jobs' concern for the user experience- the look and "feel" of the product, in this case Keith's Current show. You sound like you're willing to sacrifice the liberal agenda/message because of some purity issues you have with MSNBC. You won't watch Chris Hayes' excellent program because he's on MSNBC and not on Current? You sound like a conservative tea partier, willing to flush America down the drain because of an unwillingness to compromise, adhering to some sacred "principle". I'm more concerned with getting Medicare for all, campaign finance reform, greater corporate oversight, etc. and, maybe foolishly, think the liberal left could be doing a damn sight better in conceiving tactics to achieve those kinds of goals. OWS is obviously a great thing but the TV and radio airwaves are still under conservative control.

    • 7 months ago
  • Flute
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      Flute  
    • tritone:

      Do you know that one week f ratings do not show how well a show is doing. Also do yu even bother looking at why that show was down that week. What part of labor day on Monday and KO doing a return do you not get. What part of thier being two huge events like the debate which everyone turns to and breaking news which Current cannot do. Do know what a bashing article looks like, I read that article and thier was no truth in that article, so you show you love to put out debunk articles. That person like you looks at one week of ratings and base thier opoin on what is said, they ignore what the article saying the reasons for why it was down which any person with common sense knows that when you have a start up channel they are not the place you for debates, breaking news and a presidential speech. So wrong there and will always be wrong as much as you write made up fantasies about KO and his ratings. You want truth about his ratings. They are doing just fine and hate to break it to you KO has not lost any viewers actually gained. You will see it if you watch the channel and see what Current is doing, I wou,d ask business insider if KO doing so badly why is it when I watch Current I see new ads, you do not get it if a show is failing. Why are they building a whole line up trite you do not get if you are loosing viewers. All that adds up to you believeing a made up article about KO. Sorry people go to KO for content, if you read posts about him, hebgetting more praise by going to Current than ever at MSNBC, I have not seen a fan say that they miss what KO show was on MSNBC. So wrong people go for content, and anything you say will only show that you have no clue what makes a show a success and that you base research on a week of ratings, also KO never got 106 he first week that also shows that article like your post has no truth behind it. MSNBC has shown what it is. It not progressive and anyone saying that are showong how disolusional they are. That for showing me how successful KO become since going to Current, thanks fo showing people go for him for content. Keep posting a made up article on KO that had no truth in it about KO and his ratings. When I saw that posted I know that your post had no truth it and you hate that people go to KO for content and that he's making Current into a power house. Also building a new show and channel is a marathon not sprint. Keep lying your fantasy world and not facing the truth and reality you posted a article that has easily been shown not to be true and that people go for content.

    • 7 months ago
  • tritone
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      tritone  
    • Flute:

      I'm living in a fantasy world?

      http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/business/media/msnbc-is-close-to-falling-to-th...

      This New York Times article is about the falling ratings of MSNBC but places Current TV in the cable pantheon this way: "Mr. Olbermann is now on the air head-to-head against Mr. O’Donnell. The channel he appears on, Current TV, is not in the league of either CNN or MSNBC in terms of national profile, and his audience totals do not approach any of the other 8 p.m. competitors.
      Mr. Olbermann averaged just over 50,000 viewers in the 25-to-54 measure in September, or less than 20 percent of what he attracted on MSNBC. Still, many of those 50,000 may have previously been viewers of MSNBC — and Mr. O’Donnell was 30,000 viewers behind Mr. Cooper in September."

      Flute, why don't you post your source for the colossal ratings of Current TV compared to Fox, CNN, and MSNBC? I couldn't find any.

      And do I really need to explain that this is not a slam against Keith? I have been a fan for many years, from when he was first on MSNBC with "White House In Crisis" during Clinton/Lewinsky. When he returned to MSNBC long ago, I sent an email to him, complimenting him when he guest hosted "Nachmann" and he graciously replied, inviting me to watch his new show, starting in a few months. I was thrilled to get a response from Mr. Olbermann. We are blessed to have the brilliance of Keith Olbermann working for the 99%.

      I think Keith is possibly the Steve Jobs (minus the negative qualities) of liberal/progressive cable TV. He has set the direction, tone and standard for the Left which had no voice prior to Keith Olbermann. Rachel and Lawrence O'Donnell owe him everything as they themselves acknowledged. Any success MSNBC now enjoys is attributable to Keith. Keith single-handedly gave the flabby, shapeless network a form and, most importantly, a VOICE.

      I hope you are correct that Keith will now make Current a powerhouse. I really do. The Left needs a much higher profile in the mass media landscape. And you make a good observation in that developing a new network is a marathon and not a sprint. But there is much lacking in what is there now. My first comment was on technical and artistic production issues which are important in establishing credibility and making the show more attractive. Then they need time and money but most importantly, out-of-the-box thinking and Jobs-like VISION and empathy for the human interior world. "How can we reach more and more Americans? What tools are available and how can we wield them?" I hope they are wracking their brains on this because liberals seem to have generally been oblivious to these issues unlike Roger Ailes.

      Also, this refusal to watch MSNBC is ridiculous. There is a lot of really great content there. Maddow, O'Donnell, and Hayes are particularly excellent. The high quality of MSNBC is due to Keith. Of course, their kowtowing (Phil Griffin?) to the White House or whoever is totally spineless and pathetic. But that doesn't nullify Rachel's or the others brilliance and framing of the soulless Conservative Republican agenda and tactics. If you want social justice in America and the world, and you believe mass media has a role in influencing the national debate, then it seems to me you would be not pitting Current against MSNBC but instead unifying Current, MSNBC, and the OWS protesters against the corporate noise machine of Fox and conservative talk radio.

      Cenk will only be the first of many more to come, I hope.

    • 7 months ago
  • Flute
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      Flute  
    • tritone:

      I got my source from the daily news that came out before the that article, I have read that business insider and yes it is not true and never will be as much as you want it to be. Again look at the month trite, KO was gone most of September brcause of a publicity tour. I watch and paticition to what going on, I look at a week and see what events are going on, like I did with week of 46,000 when I saw labor day, I knew that week would not show what KO was really doing in the ratings. Also I do not relive on one week to determine what a show is doing, I do not do one month either. Trite instead of believeing everything that you read try to think things over. Like with that week what was going on that week that ratings could have been down, I know that you have a debate and a speech and holiday of course ratings will be down, we are gone a lot of the time, espically a week on shows promoting your show your going have a bad month. You could say the same thing for MSNBC too for that month or week. Also that article that was talking about MSNBC also said that KO was getting a average of around close to 80,000 in demo a little less and in the 200,000 range on overall viewers, I expect that and know it a good numbers. You should not put his numbers against what he did at MSNBC because of course you will be disappointed. He starting over trite that means he not going do as great he did at MSNBC I knew that from the start, same thing with Current. He doing fine where he is now, it took awhile if you look at his past to where he got the numbers he did at MSNBC he even said so much when he got there. So I would not go by what the mean stream articles are saying on this. When a Hollywood reporter article came out saying KO had a bad week than wrote that he recovered, only to have Shuster subbing for him because of his back have it go down the next week. A blogger wrote she was in the industry and that building shows and channels are marathons not sprints, so it not good in that sense to compare with his numbers at Current to that at MSNBC. Just go by what you are seeing with the new commercials and what Current is doing building a line up around him as a way to tell what's going on. Also when KO numbers from his live show his ratings where actually higher than 106 as I remember reading correctly like 133 or 114 that how I know also not to believe articles that have that 106. Also let me give you another tip, the nelisons are so going be a bad way in predicting in how things go because they do not survey online and podcast viewership.

    • 7 months ago
  • Nanoatzin
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      Nanoatzin  
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    • Story request: Rick Perry and the Case of the Indian Cannibal Curse

      I remember racism as a topic that has come up on The Young Turks.

      Is it possible to do a story on the following kind of whacky religious wing-nuttery?
      http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/257492_Rick_Perry_and_the_Case_of_the

      Please?

      These kinds of people are busy stirring up the same kind of loony race-hatred that used to get people killed.

      This kind of urban legend started hundreds of years ago with Christian missionaries that spread awful rumors that were used to justify torture and murder of Native Americans that refused to be converted to Christianity. Fr. Junipero Sera stopped the genocide in Mexico, but genocide continued into the 20th century in places like Texas and Louisiana.

      No evidence of pre-Columbian cannibalism anywhere in North America has ever been published by a legitimate university. The closest accounts indicate some tribes in Central America had rituals similar to the Roman where criminals and prisoners of war were ritually executed. The accounts of execution rituals are somewhat sketchy because Christian missionaries and priests burned and defaced almost all written material from the new world in order to justify claims that Native Americans were illiterate.

      This is a sick and twisted stupidity that needs to be reported.

      This also suggests that Rick Perry has the IQ of a fence post.

      My best wishes with the show. I hope all goes spectacular.

    • 8 months ago
  • supermanrico
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      supermanrico  

    • I knew it. Keith was the foundation of msnbc and now he's the foundation of current tv. Now current tv is doing the right decisions. Keep bringing good people like Cenk and forget about msnbc. Congratulations to President Gore. What? President?. . Yes, of the United States of America. It's not a joke. He was robbed of the Presidency by the pieces of shit republicans of the Supreme Court. They paid back the favor to the first bush to put them in the supreme court. I'm still outraged by that and I will always be.

    • 8 months ago
  • Flute
  • csdb14325
  • Vierotchka
  • eddie1247
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      eddie1247  

    • A perfect fit, I was very disappointed when Cenk went off of MSNBC as I was when Keith left but thankfully Keith went to current and now Cenk. Thank you Al Gore

    • 8 months ago
  • lmtctv
  • Steve_Greenberg
  • martea
  • hargin3
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      hargin3  

    • Great news. I said after MSNBC fired Cenk , that he would be the perfect fit on Current TV. I can't wait. Vice President Al Gore has done great things since leaving office, but Current TV may become his greatest achievement,

    • 8 months ago
  • JamesS12
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      JamesS12  

    • This is great news for Cenk and his team. I have been a fan for 3 years now and I know he'll continue to hold Obama and his administration accountable for their malfeasance. His fan base won't except anything less.

      Now current needs to give a show to Glenn Greenwald and David Sirota. They would have the most powerful liberal line-up in television history.

      Check out this article from Glenn Greenwald!! The revelations of some of Obama's stances and Palin's stances were STUNNING!!

      http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/index.html?page=2

    • 8 months ago
  • nkos
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      nkos  

    • Great NEWS for Cenk & his team to joint with Keith & David. Let's create the most honest & powerful group of individuals to liberate the millons of Americans from "fox misinformation news" & the other corporate blood suckers. We the people will be always in support. BE PATIENT & FOCUS

    • 8 months ago
  • larainefeather
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      larainefeather  

    • I must have died & moved on. YES! Keith, Cenk and David Schuster. Thank you Current. We get to have the best of MSNBC's castoffs. Next we'll get Ed, & Rachael.

    • 8 months ago
  • lamari51
  • rmp13
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      rmp13  

    • I am so happy about this. I have been a fan since the Air America days. And I'm happy the whole crew will be included. This is a very good thing.

    • 8 months ago
  • noguts_novotes
  • Dragnet
  • Dragnet
  • truthglow
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      truthglow  

    • I'm thrilled about this newest addition to Current TV. I can't wait until the entire schedule is filled with liberals. Why don't you give David Shuster his own show too? It's not enough that he's only on when Keith is sick. David is an excellent journalist, and he should also be on every day.

    • 8 months ago
  • karenvista
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      karenvista  

    • Absolutely Fabulous!! I've missed Cenk. Like Keith, he was mistreated by MSNBC. They are their own worst enemies and Current's best talent scouts. I tell all my friends and family members to demand that their cable company carries Current.

    • 8 months ago
  • summersnow1
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      summersnow1  

    • Anxciously awaiting the premier on Current TV, as I faithfully watched Cenk's program when he was on MSNBC. Along with Keith Olbermann, Cenk will be yet another "free spirit" with information without Corporate restrictions.

    • 8 months ago
  • slamdunk
  • slamdunk
  • suubeey
  • thehoppers
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      thehoppers  

    • Things are lining up beautifully but you need to find a new substitute for Keith when he's off! David Shuster is so embarrasingly bad, he makes Lawrence O'Donell look good

    • 8 months ago
  • slamdunk
  • CJMarkiewicz
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      CJMarkiewicz  

    • The minute that Cenk left that awful Network That Shall Not Be Named I was hoping he'd go to Current, and to have all the Young Turks is an exciting bonus - Can't wait to see the new show!!!

    • 8 months ago
  • puttee
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      puttee  

    • What GR8888News... I have been waiting for Cenk to get his own show after he was dismissed from his Gr888 show on MSNBC.. They also picked a Gr888 time as a lead-in to Keith's show... I sure hope Cenk incorporates his famous (CONsevative Job Of The Day) into his NEW show. NOW all that Current TV has to do is go to HD... This should be an imperitive as I'm sure many more people would watch Current TV if it was Transmitted in HD...

    • 8 months ago
  • Dragnet
  • publichousingstories
    • +1
      publichousingstories  

    • I really like The Young Turks. I watch it a lot now as it keeps me informed about politics, particularly as it pertains to low-income Americans and how the extremist right tries to scapegoat them.

    • 8 months ago
  • ajwmedia
  • thehoppers
    • +1
      thehoppers  

    • I think it's Great!!! Another reason not to watch ever increasing right leaning msnbc. Keith and Cenk! Now all you need is Rachel Maddow and Thom Hartmann!!!

    • 8 months ago
  • ajwmedia
  • kmrhine
  • ourfiber
  • Mark701
  • ReMarker
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      ReMarker  

    • I think Current TV is being configured the way I would do it. Cenk and TYT are a great addition and as good a lead-in for Keith as there is.

    • 8 months ago
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  

    • I think it's great. I look forward to some honesty in media. Rupert Murdoch has the market cornered on spin. Maybe current can corner the market on honesty and accountability.

      Bring back accountability and our politicians may learn the meaning of shame? The 'just say it' and move along is sooo wrong.

      I hope they stop Americans from moving along to the wrongs.

    • 8 months ago
  • Fernando_TheThinker
  • turtleposer
  • Tom_Simon
  • supercap
  • tdpubs
  • KatPBennett
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      KatPBennett  

    • I'm stoked. The Young Turks was the first show I ever stumbled across on Air America Radio. I was so bummed when they were dropped? Rescheduled? In any case, I couldn't listen anymore. It was a treat to be yelling, "Hell, YES!" at my radio for a change, instead of, "Shut up, you stupid idiot!"

    • 8 months ago
  • ElimTain
  • PAyank
  • goldilocks628
  • zerocool
    • +1
      zerocool  

    • Tell Randy Gonzalez... We're coming!!! Hope the Turks continue to provide entertainment and a truthful representation of the daily news. Their progressive outlook does not come between the truth, and I hope it never changes.

    • 8 months ago
  • nonniedoll
    • +4
      nonniedoll  

    • I am a big, big fan of Cenk Uygur. I first heard the young turks at Air America. I had never heard of the show. When the handsome Cenk started raving, I became a fan.

      He is so informed and practical -- and he cares so much.

      I hope Ana will be on the show at Current TV.

      I am 77 years old, and my president, Al, chose him What a great combination. Rave on, Cenk, rave on.

    • 8 months ago
  • Terry_Pilling
    • +2
      Terry_Pilling  

    • I have never watched current TV, but I have been a member of TYT for years and if Cenk and TYT are coming to current TV, then it must be great. I will be watching from now on. Progressives on the rise.

    • 8 months ago
  • condebalmori
  • woofer
  • Basha1950
  • nlj415
    • +2
      nlj415  

    • I'm thrilled to see Cenk found a new home. When they gave his spot on MNSBC to yet another old man that shouts over his guests I was appalled. Now if you can snag Rachel Maddow I will never have to turn on MSNBC again. Thank you for giving Keith and Cenk the airtime they deserve.

    • 8 months ago
  • The_Frank_Factor_Show
    • +1
      The_Frank_Factor_Show  

    • Excellent! If your convictions are true CurrentTV, you will become the only critical widely distributed cable channel to challenge the system. Frankly, I am not convinced yet that Al Gore is not another tool but that may change. We'll see.

    • 8 months ago
  • tlsmith63
  • GiantsMissy
  • dinm76
  • jojowolfman
    • +1
      jojowolfman  

    • THIS is just great used to watch every night and when they did what they did I was outraged and dissapointed as a democrat who believes in telling it like it is which Cenk does like no one else on tv. GOOD LUCK to current tv and CENK. THANKS joe

    • 8 months ago
  • BurgersBytes
    • +2
      BurgersBytes  

    • How does Ana fit in? Cenk never mentioned her in the promo. Cenk has a right to be fed up with Obama. He echoes my sentiments exactly! I cannot believe a word Obama says anymore. It all seems like a part of his campaign. Not reality!

      Kieth seems a bit nervous lately! I saw him on Real Time and he was stammering all over the place!

    • 8 months ago
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