Time Warner Cable's Alex Dudley, vice president of public relations, said the company has not spoken to Al-Jazeera English executives since the network's launch. Note that there was no mention of international news, especially from Doha.
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"Our customers consistently tell us they want more movies, sports, music and TV show choices," Comcast spokeswoman Jennifer Allen wrote in an e-mail. Officials at the nation's two largest cable providers have signaled that nothing is in the works. Yet there has been little hunger expressed by viewers - and therefore little pressure on cable and satellite TV providers to carry Al-Jazeera English. "They were serious in intent, and they've invested in a very sizable international infrastructure," Maddox said, "So their presence has been felt from an editorial point of view and certainly, within the industry, there's a significant awareness of them." Tony Maddox, executive vice president and managing director of CNN International, says his staff closely monitors Al-Jazeera English, along with the BBC and Sky News. Executives say they hope to drum up public awareness and appetite here with an advertising campaign and a Web site: .Īmong journalists, Al-Jazeera English has won some respect. While actual ratings are hard to come by, Al-Jazeera English can be watched in more than 130 million households worldwide and is increasingly part of an international conversation, as its staff reports on and for people all across the globe. for eight years before taking the post at Al-Jazeera English. "We challenge both of those notions," says Burman, who was editor-in-chief of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. "Obviously, another aspect has been the political stigma that's been attached to Al-Jazeera Arabic, and a kind of assumption on the part of some people that what they've heard about Al-Jazeera Arabic (a) is true and (b) applies to Al-Jazeera English. of Al-Jazeera English," says Tony Burman, managing director of Al-Jazeera English. "Part of the challenge has been the lack of awareness within the U.S. But the TV channel is fighting to get in front of American and Canadian audiences. In the U.S., it's available in just a few spots, including Toledo, Ohio, and Burlington, Vt. The visceral reaction among many Americans to the Al-Jazeera brand helps explain why, more than two years after its launch, the 24-hour English-language satellite news channel has been effectively shut out of the world's most important English-language market. officials accused Al-Jazeera Arabic of being an arm of al-Qaida for running videotaped statements from Osama bin Laden and his aides. The original Doha-based Arabic language channel is known in the Middle East for airing views that are independent of regimes in the region. The Al-Jazeera networks are backed by the riches of the ruling family of Qatar. "I'm delighted were so politically active, but who knew they were so pro-establishment?" "We reported live from the bar, but it meant having police snipers on top of the buildings, undercover cops around me," Rushing recalls. And second, a local media frenzy erupted.
When Al-Jazeera English correspondent Josh Rushing traveled to Golden, Colo., last summer to interview people watching Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic convention in Denver, two things happened.įirst, three rival biker gangs banded together to protest Rushing's presence. Israelis Shun Al-Jazeera's Arabic News Network March 25, 2008
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