Broadcaster gives American outlet to Al-Jazeera

[Leithan]

Source: Huffington Post

NEW YORK — Link TV is giving Qatar-based Al-Jazeera English a long-sought American television audience during the political turmoil in Egypt.

Link says it is simulcasting about 12 hours a day of live Al-Jazeera. Its in-depth coverage of the protests has won praise from journalists and hostility from Egyptian authorities, who closed the channel's Cairo office and detained six journalists in their hotels.

Link TV spokeswoman Julia Pacetti said Wednesday that the network felt it was important to see a perspective on Egypt's crisis not filtered through Western eyes.



Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110202/us-egypt-al-jazeera/

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Oh noes! A different perspective? I...I have to lie down, now.

[annabanana]

1. And where can one SEE Link tv?

I don't think it's on MY cable lineup. .

[Bill219]

3. For DirecTV subscribers

it is channel 375

[glinda]

5. LibertyTV owns a majority stake? Murdoch owns 34%???

[earthside]

7. Murdoch is out of DirecTV.

Liberty bought him out ... now, John Malone, the wheeler dealer of cable/satellite TV, is also a right-winger. However, Malone has not played politics in the Murdoch fashion -- he just usually turns companies he gets a hold of into crap.

[glinda]

14. Well that isn't promising....

[Bozita]

18. Certainly not on Comcast. Just like Free Speech TV and AJ-E.

[gateley]

2. Oh noes! We might be exposed to UNBIASED NEWS REPORTING! There goes

our country!

I so admire LinkTV -- gutsy and I wish there was some way I could support them. Sending an e-mail now showing support!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

4. They are on DISH --

I have watched their half hour show for over a year now -- excellent coverage overall, and especially so on the ME. Their coverage of the Gaza blockade run was incredibly informant and important.

[hexola]

6. If you live in the DC/Fairfax area and have a recent TV, you can probably get AJ with rabbit ears

Mhz carries Al-Jazeera

Channel 30-5

[Leithan]

8. My brother and my sister-in-law in Toronto get AJE on their cable package

Goddam Canadian tyranny that also forces free health care on their people!

[era veteran]

9. 9410 on Dish

Democracy Now is on now. Noam Chomsky on the phone.

[jwirr]

10. Good for LINK.

[L. Coyote]

11. GD: ***** EGYPT Live Blog ***** Al Jazeera English: Live Stream Feb. 2 *****

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x324590

[Leithan]

12. Is there video?

I'm not seeing it thus far.

[justabob]

13. link to video feed here

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

[greiner3]

15. A little prediciton?

Link TV is dropped by most cable companies for 'economic' or other unspecified problems soon.

[joshcryer]

16. I'd like to see our local digital channels use their secondary weather channel for this.

Most of our local digital channels (and I assume many others) have a secondary channel where there's weather 24/7. There's a little thing where they show ads and intermittent updates on the upper right, they could put Al-Jazeera English in there.

[BREMPRO]

17. Al Jazeera English version has been broadcasting online for a long time (link)

they seem like real objective journalists of a past era, rather than the American propagandist model. also valuable to see a perspective from the Arab street point of view.
easy access here: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/