Current TV

Current TV was sold to Al Jazeera, and will be renamed Al Jazeera America. It was on channel 900 for digital cable households in Hilo, but the local cable system, owned by Time Warner, immediately removed it from its lineup.

I'll have more later, but I remember when we got digital cable in 2001. Newsworld International was a Canadian-based news channel with much more international coverage than CNN or Fox News. It disappeared a few years later, replaced by Current. At the time, Current was a kind of proto-You Tube, with short videos, often made by viewers. Again, I'll expand on this later.