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By Shirley Brady
After hosting a series of local town hall meetings with applicants, Al Gore and Joel Hyatt's start-up digital network, INdTV, has terminated recruitment for its on-air talent pool of 50 so-called DCs, or digital correspondents. More than 2,000 wannabe DCs applied for jobs, overwhelming the diginet's execs. "Given the unexpected volume, we probably in hindsight began this recruiting effort a little too early, and it is taking us longer than we thought to process the applications," Hyatt posted on the San Francisco-based network's DC recruiting blog late last month (before it was taken down). INdTV's plan B was revealed in an e-mail reprinted in The Washington Post: On-air hopefuls have to submit one-to-five-minute video segments that could be included in some pilots. Any segment that makes the cut will bring its maker $200. Not exactly a glitzy TV job sucking lattes, but hey...
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