EBHS Graduate to Take Web Show to Current TV

East Brunswick High School graduate Cenk Uygur will take his popular Web-basd political talk show, "The Young Turks," to Current TV starting Monday.

The show, "The Young Turks with Cenk Ugyur," will air nightly at 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and will serve as a lead-in to "Countdown with Keith Olbermann."

The Young Turks launched as an internet radio show in 2002 and expanded to satellite televsion and the Web in 2005. The show gets about 30 million visitors a month to its You Tube channel, Ugyur told Patch, and has had 610 million visitors since it launched.

Uygur, on his TYT web site describes The Young Turks as a "unique and no-holds-barred gathering place for progressives to meet and address the issues of the day." The show will allow viewers to determine content with "comments, questions and challenges drawn from social media and current.com/theyoungturks addressed directly during the show each night."

He said the new television show will not replace the original TYT, but will offer several advantages, including better graphics and access to satellites that will allow the show to feature guests from all around the globe. It will allow Ugyur to tell a "more visual story than the verbal one" he has been telling.

Early guests will include Sam Stein of The Huffington Post, who will be part of a regular panel discussion called The Regulators, former Vice President Al Gore, Current's president, and Jack Abramoff, a conservative Republican who served time on corruptions charges.

"The show will feature a core group of progressives, a young, strong, smart group. Not the same old tired political analysts as everyone else," he says.

Uygur had hosted a nightly show on MSNBC until the summer when he left the network.