Al Gore Keith Olbermann committed to Current TV

PASADENA, Calif.

(AP) Former Vice President

Al Gore

on Friday described Current TV as a "consistent" magnanimous TV network compared with MSNBC, and pronounced it will keep

Keith Olbermann

in a fold.

Olbermann, Current's many renouned personality, didn't attend in Iowa and

New Hampshire

domestic coverage, reportedly given he was dissapoint over prolongation problems during a network.

"He's fine," pronounced Gore, authority of a network in 63 million U.S. homes, dismissing rumors that Olbermann was seeking to leave. "He has been a pivotal to a ability to focus and rise a whole network as a on-going news and explanation network."

Olbermann did not attend a news discussion here on Current's program ming, with network officials observant he was on vacation. He also did not immediately respond to a ask for criticism from The Associated Press.

Gore himself has taken on a purpose of pundit, operative as a commentator for Current's domestic night coverage on Iowa and New Hampshire.

While he pronounced it's been fun, Gore pronounced in an talk that he has no enterprise for a unchanging on-camera job.

Current is touting Gore and former

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm

, a unchanging prime-time personality, as charity a singular viewpoint given they have hold domestic bureau and aren't like a reporters or domestic advisers on other networks. Granholm's prime-time uncover "The War Room" debuts Jan. 30.

"They've got a few on-going shows on MSNBC in primary time," Gore said, "but they'll start a day with a regressive uncover in a mornings, and afterwards they'll get a jail channel on a weekends. They'll be all o ver a lot in a center of a day. We're consistent."

Joel Hyatt, Current's CEO, pronounced MSNBC usually became magnanimous after Olbermann who used to work there done his uncover politically forked and it showed ratings growth.

"There is no flawlessness to a MSNBC brand," he said.

MSNBC orator Jeremy Gaines pronounced he would not comment.

A news released by a wire analysts SNL Kagan on Friday suggested gripping Olbermann and improving his ratings could be pivotal to a network's survival.

"The intensity is there, though Current will need to get a programming act together or it could face a probability of being forsaken by some distributors," wrote Kagan researcher Derek Baine.

(news.yahoo.com)