San Francisco-based Current TV is being yanked from Sky Italia, the Italian pay-TV service owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., and the folks at Current claim it’s all about politics. Specifically, co-founders Joel Hyatt and former vice president Al Gore claim it’s about the soon-to-be addition of liberal smack-talker Keith Olbermann to the Current lineup.
Add: Gore even calls the Sky Italia action “an abuse of power.” Murdoch’s people deny it. Paidcontent has details.