Ryan Seacrest seeking a cable channel

Oprah has one. So why not Ryan Seacrest?

He appears to be seeking to create his pop culture-oriented network, according to Hollywood Reporter. Unlike Oprah, he doesn’t plan to plaster his name all over the channel. The story says he will continue to work with E! and it won’t be a direct competitor.

Seacrest is in talks with talent agency CAA and entertainment company AEG to jointly create the cable network.

His partners’ most likely path to distribution would be to convince one of the cable channel-owning power players (like MTV Networks or Discovery Communications) to let them rebrand a struggling channel that already has a fair amount of distribution.

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