November 21, 2006
Al Jazeera English: On a TV Near You
Al Jazeera English, the first English language international news channel headquartered in the Middle East, launched last week to over 80 million cable and satellite homes worldwide.
In addition to cable, ADSL, mobile platforms and satellite, Al Jazeera English is also available as a live stream to the one billion users of the Internet worldwide. Al Jazeera’s English language website, aljazeera.net/english has been re-launched with the English language channel to reflect the channel’s look and feel and editorial content. It also provides live streams of the channel together with RSS feeds, e-mail newsletters and interactive discussion boards.
Al-Jazeera English will initially broadcast for 12 hours a day before becoming a 24-hour news operation from January 1, 2007. It will broadcast from studios in Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington DC, in addition to 20 other countries. It will be available to 80 million homes - double its target audience - in Europe, Africa and South East Asia.
Since its launch 10 years ago Al Jazeera radically changed politics in the Middle East and now with a goal to "revolutionize TV news by giving voice to the oppressed South" its international English syndicate may very well change global politics.
Posted by Buzz Webster at November 21, 2006 04:27 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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