Al Jazeera International gets US carrier

Posted by Martin Stabe on 24 April 2006 at 15:40
Tags: Al Jazeera, Journalism, United States

One stumbling block for Al Jazeera International’s global launch may have been overcome: the Qatar-based network has finally signed up a satellite operator to carry its new English-language rolling news channel in the United States, according to the Rocky Mountain News in Denver.

AJI had been struggling to find a US carrier, allegedly because of the companies’ concerns about Al Jazeera’s image in the United States.

Speaking to the Observer this weekend, however, AJI’s British managing director, Nigel Parsons, said: “America has been one of our most difficult markets, but the problems haven’t been political, they’ve been hard-nosed business negotiations with cable operators who have limited space and may not want to carry another news channel.”

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