TIME WARNER CABLE MAY CARRY AL-JAZEERA AFTER ALL
January 4, 2013 by admin · Leave a Comment
Confronting a barrage of criticism over its decision to pull the plug on the Current TV channel after it was acquired by Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based cable news service, Time Warner Cable said Thursday that it is “keeping an open mind” about carrying the channel in the future. Executives of the cable company told the New […]
CHINA OUSTS AL-JAZEERA ENGLISH REPORTER
May 8, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
Al-Jazeera English has shut down its English-language offices and studio in Beijing after its reporter, Melissa Chan, was expelled by the Chinese government without explanation. It said that its Arabic offices and studio were not affected. In a report on its website, al-Jazeera observed that Chan had been stationed in Beijing as its correspondent since […]
AL-JAZEERA LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO FIND CABLE HOME
February 7, 2011 by admin · 2 Comments
Al-Jazeera English, which, with few exceptions, has been rejected by U.S. cable systems and which has been attracting millions of viewers to its live Internet coverage of the events in Egypt, is now urging them to demand that cable networks give it an outlet. “Demand al-Jazeera in the USA,” reads an ad on its site. […]
AL-JAZEERA WINS PLAUDITS FOR EGYPT COVERAGE
Al-Jazeera continued non-stop broadcasting out of Egypt on Monday even as Egyptian authorities made what appeared to be clumsy moves to shut it down. The government has blocked entrance to the Arab news network’s offices in Cairo, arrested at least two of its news crews then released them after confiscating their equipment. And while all […]