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Al Jazeera English
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| Al Jazeera English | |
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| Launched | 15 November 2006 |
| Owned by | Al Jazeera |
| Slogan | Setting The News Agenda |
| Broadcast area | coverage maps and availability information |
| Headquarters | Broadcast Centers: Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington D.C. |
| Sister channel(s) | Al Jazeera |
| Website | aljazeera.net/english |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Triangle TV Auckland & Wellington |
limited scheduled transmission on FTA UHF channels at certain hours |
| Satellite | |
| AsiaSat 3S Asia/ME/Australia |
3760 H / 26000 / 7/8 |
| Astra 1KR Europe |
11508 V / 22000 / 5/6 |
 Astro |
Channel 36 |
 Astro |
Channel 513 |
| Badr 4 ME/Europe/N.Afr. |
12034 H / 27500 / 3/4 |
| Badr C Africa/ME |
3996 V (analogue signal) |
 Canal Digitaal |
Channel 64 |
| Canal Digital Scandinavia |
Channel 57 |
 CanalSat |
Channel 331 |
 Cyfrowy Polsat |
Channel 95 |
 Dialog TV |
Channel 3 |
 Digital+ |
Channel 79 |
| Eurobird 1 Europe |
11680 V / 27500 / 2/3 |
| G-23 (IA 13) N/Central America |
3900 V / 27684 / 3/4 |
| G-25 (IA 5) North America |
11999 H / 20000 / 2/3 |
 Globecast |
Channel 463 (FTA) |
| Hispasat 1C Europe/N Africa |
12092 V / 27500 / 3/4 |
| Hotbird 6 Europe |
11034 V / 27500 / 3/4 |
| Nilesat 101 North Africa/ME |
12015 V / 27500 / 3/4 |
 Optus B3 |
12452 / 22500 / 3/4 |
| Optus C1 SE Asia/Australia |
12367 V / 27800 / 3/4 PID: video=1121, audio=1122 |
| PAS-9 Americas |
3840 H / 27690 / 7/8 |
| PAS-10 East. Hemisphere |
4064 H / 19850 / 7/8 |
  Sky Digital |
Channel 514 |
 SKY Italia |
Channel 522 |
| Thor 3 NE Europe |
12398 H / 28000 / 7/8 |
| TPS |
Channel 330 |
| Turksat 2A Eurasia |
12139 H / 2222 / 3/4 |
 TV Vlaanderen |
Channel 54 |
 yes |
Channel 108 |
| Cable | |
| Buckeye CableSystem |
Channel 220 |
 Cable Sula |
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 Cablevision |
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 Elisa |
(digital tuner required) |
 Global Destiny |
Channel 41 |
 Kabel BW |
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| KDG |
Channel 842 |
| NOOS-UPC |
Channel 64 |
 Qatar Cable |
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| Tele Columbus |
(digital tuner required; channel still listed as Al Jazeera International) |
 UCS |
Channel 49 |
| Welho |
(digital tuner required; subscription) |
| IPTV over ADSL | |
 Clix SmarTV |
Channel 97 |
| Club Internet |
Channel 59 |
 Elion |
Channel 66 |
| Free |
Channel 85 |
 HKBN bbTV |
Channel 735 |
| Neuf TV |
Channel 47 |
| TPG |
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 Yes TV |
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| Internet Television | |
| Al Jazeera | [1] (free 56K stream; Real SuperPass, JumpTV & VDC subscriptions) |
| I'm TV | [2] (free stream, 4:3) |
| JumpTV | [3] (subscription) |
| Real | [4] (subscription) |
| VDC | [5] (subscription) |
| Vingo.tv Alpha | [6] registration required |
| YouTube | [7] (video segments posted on YouTube by Al Jazeera) |
Al Jazeera English is a 24-hour English-language news and current affairs TV channel headquartered in Doha, Qatar. It is the sister channel of Al Jazeera.
The station broadcasts news features and analysis, documentaries, live debates, current affairs, business, and sports. The station claims to be the first global high-definition television network[citation needed].
Al Jazeera English is the world’s first English-language news channel headquartered in the Middle East[citation needed]. The channel aims to provide both a regional voice and a global perspective to a potential world audience of over one billion English speakers, but without an Anglo-American worldview.[1] Instead of being run under central command, news management rotates around broadcasting centres in Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington, DC, "following the sun."
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Al Jazeera English has stated objectives of emphasizing news from the developing world, of "reversing the North to South flow of information" and of "setting the news agenda". The latter is the channel's main slogan. Some observers, including media scholar Adel Iskandar, have commented that this focus can be seen, in the eyes of Western viewers, as casting Al Jazeera English as a global "alternative" news network, though the entire Al Jazeera brand has been heavily mainstreamed in many parts of the world.[2] Other Al Jazeera English slogans and catchphrases include: "EVERY ANGLE | EVERY SIDE", "ALL THE NEWS | ALL THE TIME", "fearless journalism" and "If it's newsworthy, it gets on air, whether it's Bush or Bin Laden." Al Jazeera's Code of Ethics mirrors some of these statements.
The channel was launched on 15 November 2006. It had aimed to commence global broadcasting in June 2006 but had to postpone its launch because its HDTV technology was not ready.[3] The channel was due to be called Al Jazeera International, but the name was changed one day prior to launch.[4]
The channel had expected to reach around 40 million households, but it far exceeded that launch target, reaching 80 million homes.[5]
As of 2007, the channel is one of the three largest global English language 24 hour news channels, the other two being BBC World and CNN International.[6]
Regular/recurrent programmes on the channel are:
- 101 East - weekly show hosted by Teymoor Nabili; Asian politics, business and current affairs
- 48 - "In one city with only 48 hours, Amanda Palmer shows you the highs and lows of city living."
- Everywoman - hosted by Shiulie Ghosh; "Everywoman is the first show of its kind from the Middle East to put women’s issues at its core. Its strong stories with universal appeal ensure that this will be compelling viewing for men and women alike."
- The Fabulous Picture Show (FPS) - Motion picture/entertainment show hosted by Amanda Palmer
- Frost Over the World - hosted by Sir David Frost; "Frost Over the World brings together a diverse range of guests to discuss the week’s current affairs."
- Inside Iraq - hosted by Jasim Al-Azzawi, "Inside Iraq is a weekly debate programme offering opinions from a diverse range of guests on Iraq."
- Inside Story - "analysis, background, and context on the day's top story"
- Listening Post - hosted by Richard Gizbert; Al Jazeera English revisits and reviews how other news organizations covered the news that week and presents viewer-submitted news
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- News Review - Al Jazeera English reviews/recaps the news of the day
- People & Power - biweekly programme hosted by Dr Shereen El Feki, Juliana Ruhfus and Sapna Bhatia; In April 2007, Samah El-Shahat replaced Shereen El Feki as the main host of the program. "People & Power is about power in the 21st century - who has it, who wants it and how it is being used - and abused."
- Riz Khan - daily (Mon-Thu) viewer participation show hosted by Riz Khan
- Riz Khan's One on One - Riz Khan sits down with a single guest for an extended interview
- Sportsworld - a weekly sports programme hosted, on rotation, by members of Al Jazeera's Doha sports team
- Witness - hosted by Rageh Omaar; a daily presentation of short documentaries
In addition to the above, Al Jazeera English runs various programmes that are either entirely non-recurrent or consist of just a limited number of parts (miniseries format).
Also cf. the channel's Programmes and Programme Schedule pages.
In addition to its four broadcast centres, Al Jazeera English has 21 supporting bureaux which gather and produce news. It also shares resources with the Arabic language channel's 42 bureaux and is planning to add further bureaux, to be announced as they open.[7]
Broadcast Centre: Doha (map)
Correspondents: Hoda Abdel-Hamid, Hashem Ahelbarra, James Bays, John Cookson, and Mike Hanna.
Bureaux & Correspondents
Beirut: Rula Amin, Zeina Khodr
Jerusalem: Jacky Rowland, David Chater
Ramallah: Walid Batrawi
Gaza: Nour Odeh
Bureaux: Cairo, Abidjan, Nairobi, Johannesburg, and Harare.
Correspondents: Amr El Kahky, Gabi Menezes, Haru Mutasa, Kalay Maistry, and Farai Sevenzo.
Broadcast Centre: London (map)
Correspondents: Alan Fisher, Richard Bestic, Tim Friend, Nazanine Moshiri
Bureaux & Correspondents:
Moscow. Jonah Hull
Broadcast Centre: Washington DC (map)
Correspondents: Viviana Hurtado and Rob Reynolds
Bureaux & Correspondents:
Buenos Aires: Lucia Newman
Caracas: Mariana Sanchez
New York: Kristen Saloomey
United Nations: Mark Seddon
Broadcast Centre: Kuala Lumpur (map)
Correspondents: Tony Birtley, David Hawkins
Bureaux: Beijing, Delhi, Islamabad, Jakarta, Manila, and Sydney.
Correspondents: Tony Cheng, Zain Awan, Rajesh Sundaram, Kamal Hyder, Marga Ortigas, Dan Nolan and Step Vaessen
Personalities who have joined the channel include[8] (previous employers in brackets):
Veteran British broadcaster Sir David Frost joined Al Jazeera English[9] to host his show Frost Over the World.
Former BBC and CNN anchor Riz Khan, who previously had been the host of the CNN talk show Q&A, also joined. He hosts his shows Riz Khan and Riz Khan's One on One.
Former U.S. Marine Josh Rushing joined Al Jazeera in September 2005.[10] He had been the press officer for the United States Central Command during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, and in that role had been featured in the documentary Control Room. When subsequently joining Al Jazeera, Rushing commented that "In a time when American media has become so nationalized, I'm excited about joining an organization that truly wants to be a source of global information..."[11] Rushing works from the Washington, DC broadcasting centre.
Former CNN and BBC news anchorwoman and award winning journalist Veronica Pedrosa also joined the team[12], along with CNN producer James Wright, and Kieran Baker, a former editor and producer for CNN, who most recently was Acting General Manager, Communications and Public Participation for ICANN. On 2 December 2005, Stephen Cole, a senior anchor on BBC World and Click Online presenter, announced he was joining Al Jazeera International.[13]
The network announced on 12 January 2006 that former Nightline correspondent Dave Marash would be the co-anchor from their Washington studio. Marash described his new position as "the most interesting job on Earth."[14] On 6 February 2006, it was announced that the former BBC reporter Rageh Omaar would host the daily weeknights documentary series, Witness.[15]
The managing director for Al Jazeera English is Nigel Parsons.
The channel is available in many countries, mostly via satellite, sometimes via cable. The channel is also available online. A low quality RealVideo stream allows viewing. Online subscriptions allowing unlimited viewing may be purchased from Al Jazeera on Jump TV, Real, VDC. Headlines from Al-Jazeera English are available on twitter. According to the Al Jazeera English Watch Now webpage, not all services are available everywhere due to licensing/distribution restrictions.
The New York Times on April 16, 2007 reported that Al Jazzeera English would begin running segments from its shows on the Internet video-sharing site YouTube.[16]. Al Jazeera YouTube site.
Al Jazeera English is available in the UK and Ireland on Sky's digital satellite platform on channel 514.
In the United States, Al Jazeera is available on Buckeye Cable (Channel 220) in Toledo, Ohio. It is also available in Burlington, Vermont, Houston, Texas, and Washington, DC.[17] The channel is not widely available and was dropped by Comcast, a cable company with a subscriber base of over 12 million people, a month prior to the channel's launch due to the already-saturated television market there and a perception in some circles that the channel gives airtime to terrorists.[18][19] However, Galaxy 25 (Intelsat Americas 5) carries the network free-to-air over the US and Canada. Al Jazeera English is available on Galaxy 25 on the Ku band, transponder 16 (11.999 GHz) in DVB format (Globecast channel 463). In New Zealand, Triangle TV re-broadcasts various Al Jazeera programmes in Auckland and Wellington on free-to-air UHF channels.
The channel initially began test streaming Al Jazeera English (then called "Al Jazeera International") in March 2006 on Hot Bird, SES Astra Astra 1E, Hispasat, AsiaSat3S, Eurobird 1 and Panamsat PAS 10. Telenors Thor, Türksat and Eurobird 2 were added to the satellites carrying it. Eurobird 1 carried the test stream on frequency 11.681 under the name "AJI".
These are some quotes from Al Jazeera staff that were broadcast on Al Jazeera English:
Josh Rushing: "Do the right thing, for the right reason. And that's what I see Al Jazeera doing."
Josh Rushing: "I care more about the truth, and getting the truth in my story, than I do about controlling the message, like I did before when I was a spokesperson."
Dave Marash: "We're gonna seek out the areas neglected by the Western-oriented media."
Rageh Omaar: "I think one thing you can definitely say about Al Jazeera is that it will and does evoke a reaction."
Riz Khan: "In my lifetime as a journalist, there will not be another channel launched on this scale."
Barbara Serra: "If it's newsworthy, it gets on air, whether it's Bush or Bin Laden."
Bob Geldof: "I say what I like, I'm not beholden to anyone, if you don't like it, f— [inaudible] off." [20]
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- Although Al Jazeera English claims to show in HD, like BBC World, they are cropped and being shown in 14:9 but includes commercials and promos. However the programmes that are shown on the Al Jazeera English YouTube channel are shown in their original 16:9 format.
- When Al Jazeera English was launched on November 15, 2006, its broadcast was also simulcast on Al Jazeera Arabic. Strangely, Al Jazeera Arabic had shown the 16:9 original feed of the channel and not the usual 14:9 broadcast feed.[21]
- On 13 December 2006, Comedy Central's Daily Show ran a piece of comic-correspondent Samantha Bee visiting Al Jazeera English's Washington office and "rebuilding this network from the ground up."[22] A few hours after the segment aired, complete transcripts appeared on the blogosphere,[23] and subsequent Google searches of "Al Jazeera" "Daily Show" produced over 200,000 hits.[24]
- In mid-December 2006, Al Jazeera English started running an advertisement clip announcing the then forthcoming Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, which was launched at midday on 1 January 2007.
- Al Jazeera English is one of the four networks that made an appeal for the release of the BBC Gaza Correspondent Alan Johnston. The others are Sky News, CNN and BBC News.
- International broadcasting
- BBC World
- CCTV-9
- CNN International
- Deutsche Welle
- EuroNews
- France 24
- Nile TV
- JumpTV
- Russia Today
- Channel NewsAsia
- PRESS TV
- The Al-Jazeera English Research Project [8]
- ^ Al Jazeera's (Global) Mission, Fast Company, by Linda Tischler, published April 2006
- ^ Is Al Jazeera Alternative? Mainstreaming Alterity and Assimilating Discourses of Dissent, by Adel Iskandar, Transnational Broadcasting Studies Journal, published 2005
- ^ Al Jazeera International targets June launch
The Challenges of Working at Al-Jazeera, National Public Radio, Talk of the Nation, 26 June 2006
Al Jazeera sets English launch date - ^ Al-Jazeera renames English-language channel (registration required)
- ^ Al-Jazeera English hits airwaves, BBC News, published 15 November 2006
- ^ Al Jazeera English (YouTube online video by GOOD Magazine)
The Editors: A new channel arrives (BBC News blog), by Richard Porter, published 15 November 2006
BBC World dropped by Israeli satellite TV, The Guardian, by Tara Conlan, published 13 December 2006 - ^ Al Jazeera International reveals global line-up of bureaux, published 10 October 2006
- ^ News anchors: Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London, Washington
News presenters - Doha
Doha-based news presenters; press release with additional information
News presenters - Kuala Lumpur
News presenters - London
News presenters - Washington
Programme presenters
Other news and programme presenters - ^ David Frost joins al-Jazeera TV, BBC News, published 7 October 2005
- ^ Mission of Former Marine: Arab TV, by Nick Madigan and Annie Linskey, MediaChannel.org, via Wayback Machine
- ^ Josh Rushing, former U.S. marine, joins Al Jazeera International, AMEInfo, published 22 September 2005
- ^ Veronica Pedrosa joins Al Jazeera (November 20, 2005). Retrieved on 2006-06-03.
- ^ BBC's 'Peter Pan' joins al-Jazeera, Guardian Unlimited, by Chris Tryhorn, published 2 December 2005
- ^ Los Angeles Times[citation needed]
- ^ Farewell to the front line (for now), The Times, by Damian Whitworth, published 7 February 2006
- ^ Now on YouTube: The Latest News From Al Jazeera, in English
- ^ Burlington one of few places to air Al Jazeera, Associated Press, Apr. 22, 2007
- ^ Al Jazeera Meets American Resistance. Businessweek. Retrieved on 2007-08-29.
- ^ French Rescue Al-Jazeera Intl.. Terror Television. Retrieved on 2007-08-29.
- ^ Geldof is not an Al Jazeera employee, but a clip of him saying the above —during an interview for Riz Khan's One on One— is featured in Al Jazeera English's promos.
- ^ Al Jazeera English launch, simulcast on Al Jazeera Arabic
- ^ Samantha Bee's report on Al Jazeera English
- ^ Blog post including a transcript of the Daily Show's Al Jazeera English piece
- ^ Google search for "Al Jazeera" "Daily Show" - retrieved 17 December 2006; the number of returned results has since decreased
- aljazeera.net/english - the official website of Al Jazeera English
- Note: Aljazeera.com and aljazeerah.info are completely unrelated websites.
- Al Jazeera English at YouTube - the channel's official YouTube account
- Al Jazeera English Corporate Profile
- Al Jazeera English branding clips
- Al Jazeera International Commissioning
- Al Jazeera English promo video
- Al Jazeera English pre-launch promo video
- Press release for launch date
- The Launch of Al Jazeera English (First 6 minutes, November 15, 2006 12PM GMT) from YouTube from Google Video
- Al Jazeera English's Doha broadcasting centre, Qatar Living/Google Maps
- How to watch Al Jazeera English via Satellite in North America
- [9] Twitter relay source code and homepage
- Is Al-Jazeera ready for prime time?, Salon.com, April 20, 2005
- The Selling of Al Jazeera TV to an International Market, International Herald Tribune, October 31, 2005
- Al Jazeera's (Global) Mission, Fast Company, April 2006
- What Does It Take to Break the Language Barrier?, Asharq Al Awsat, October 10, 2006
- Tearing Down The Walls, Time Magazine, November 06, 2006
- How Will Al-Jazeera English Be Received?, The Montana Standard, November 17, 2006, by Adel Iskandar
- Al Jazeera English Falls Short of Expectations, New America Media, November 21, 2006, by Jamal Dajani
- Al Jazeera International: A New Representation of the Middle East to the English-speaking Audience?, Yuli Yang, September 21, 2006
- FOX News' coverage of the launch of Al Jazeera English, excerpt from the Fox Online program broadcast on the Fox News Channel on November 15, 2006 (YouTube video)
- Parody skit lampooning Al Jazeera English, excerpt from the MADtv show, broadcast on the U.S. TV channel FOX in February 2006 (YouTube video)
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| Africa | CNBC Africa • SABC Africa • Nile TV International |
| Asia | ABS-CBN News Channel • Al Jazeera English • CNBC Asia • Channel NewsAsia • CCTV-9 • Press TV • CTV News Channel • TVBS-NEWS • CTi News • Phoenix InfoNews Channel • STAR News • SET News • Era News • Unique Business News • ETTV News • ETtoday • FTV News • NDTV 24x7 |
| Europe | BBC World • CNBC Europe • EuroNews • France 24 • Russia Today • Sky News • Deutsche Welle • SKY TG24 • TVE 24H • SIC Notícias |
| North America | Bloomberg Television • Caribbean Media Corporation • CBC Newsworld • CNBC • CNN International • Fox News Channel • VOA TV |
| Oceania | TVNZ 7 |
| South America | teleSUR • TV Chile |