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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:13 PM
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Is anyone offered Al Arabiya or Al Jazeera from their cable or satellite provider?
I notice MSNBC and CNN are always quoting these sources. Why don't they just let us actually see the feed? Does what those stations report need to be filtered by our media before we get to find out what they are saying? Is someone afraid we will all turn into Arab terrorists if we were to actually watch it ourselves?

I just don't really understand this?

Don
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justiceischeap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:15 PM
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1. I have it on Verizon FiOS. I live in the DC area. nt
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denbot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:55 PM
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20. We have fios in the Los Angeles area
What is the channel number?
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justiceischeap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:56 PM
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21. 457 on mine
Edited on Tue Feb-01-11 03:57 PM by justiceischeap
It's got a green background in the "guide" and the next channel is the Metro Chinese Network (which I've never checked out).
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denbot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-02-11 02:38 AM
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22. There is no 457 here in the L.A. area..
I'll have to bounce around and see if I can find it.
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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:16 PM
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2. I get it via LinkTV on Direct satellite. nt
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:16 PM
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3. Because they'd have to change their name to Al Jazeera...
rather than their current names. I think it's more of a competition thing. They don't want their viewers to want any other network but theirs.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:20 PM
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8. I have seen them show the BBC feed before and they didn't change their name to BBC
I think it might be something else?

Don
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:28 PM
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17. I'm just guessing...
I wondered if maybe that CNN and MSNBC didn't want to be seen as working with Al Jazeera for appearance's sake. Maybe it would be a negative thing for them, but I don't know how most Americans view Al Jazeera either.

:shrug:
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cbayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:17 PM
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4. One Los Angeles PBS station now carries Al Jazeera US evening news, as well
as the major networks from other international sources. We can get it through the air.

Also the Roku device for streaming to your TV has a station with international news sources, including Al Jazeera.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:17 PM
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5. Not here on Dish.
There is a site to ask your provider to put them on the menu: www.iwantaje.com
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:21 PM
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11. Not here on Dish either. Just emailed them via the link you put up. Thanks, my friend.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:23 PM
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12. Welcome. Dish does have LINK (9410) and they do air 1 AJE program
but it's not the same, is it? :)
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:26 PM
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14. Fortunately, I watch more TV online than I do the actual TV.
Now, if we could just get BBC for real rather than the ridiculous and ad polluted American version. Link is great.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:18 PM
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6. My Comcast: NO Free Speech TV, NO Link TV, NO Al Aribiya, NO Al Jazeera English
But we've had Fox Business Network in HD since its inception.
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Bragi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:18 PM
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7. We can subscribe to it in Canada
I ordered it a few days ago to get their Egypt coverage.

Don't forget, though, that even Americans (joke!) can get the full AJ English service online:

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
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KeepItReal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:20 PM
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9. Time Warner Cable in L.A...no CNN International, HDNET or Al Jazeera available
This sux...

Streaming on internet, though.
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Waiting For Everyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:21 PM
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10. Comcast in MD (and DC) has Al Jazeera.
Channel 275. I didn't know I had it until a few days ago though. There are so many channels now.

It's really cool having AJ on tv though. And no commercials are on it, that I've seen anyway.
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:25 PM
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13. I listen to Al Jazeera on KPFA/Pacifica Radio via the web
Pacifica is apparently the only radio outlet for AJ in America.

I didn't know what to expect when I first start listening to AJ earlier this year when KPFA began to broadcast it (it began broadcasting in Dec.), but I've been very impressed with it even before the Egyptian revolution.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:27 PM
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15. I've mentioned before that there is a 1/2 hour news round up for the ME
produced by someone at LINK that is excellent. It's Mosaic, and it compiles stories from a number of different outlets and provides an English language voice translation. No editorializing at all.

http://www.linktv.org/mosaic

It's cool to get the stories the way they are reported there. Episodes of this program can also be streamed.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:28 PM
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18. Thank you I am going to check it out later
:hi:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:37 PM
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19. This is the guy that made that show.
http://twitter.com/#!/JamalDajani

He's very professional on the job and his tweets are from his evil twin. lol :)
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-02-11 06:41 AM
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24. Good link
Thanks
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 03:27 PM
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16. Al Jazeera English, no. Al Jazeera Arabic is offered here for
and additional cost.
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ProgressiveMuslim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-02-11 06:38 AM
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23. Dish Network outside of Philly offers both in their Arabic language package. Movies too! nt
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Mudoria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-02-11 06:43 AM
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25. Not available here
Not really interested in it either so it's not a big deal to me.
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