Sky EPG 514 for alJazeera international
Starts Wednesday 12 mid day 15/11/2006
uk indo “President Bush reportedly had to be talked out of bombing its Doha HQ by Tony Blair, and last month David Blunkett revealed that Bush had wanted to bomb the station’s Baghdad transmitter as he regarded it as an enemy “propaganda mechanism”. Whew! You couldn’t buy that sort of publicity- no wonder that in a relatively short time Al Jazeera has become one of the world’s most recognisable and influential brands.”
In the UK, the channel will be available on Sky Digital channel 514.
November 24th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
It’s also available on Free to Air Satellite in Ireland (and presumably elsewhere), don’t know the tuning location though.
So far, it’s not half as good as I thought it’d be, but it still beats the shit out of BBC, Sky, ITN and CNN.
Yesterday it showed an actual ‘gun battle’ between Palestinian fighters and Israeli tanks, and the reporter (accurately) described it as a “very unequal battle”. Wouldn’t see that on CNN!
And had a short feature about an Israeli woman (a holocaust survivor) who left Israel in disgust at the State’s actions in the West Bank and Gaza. Again, not exactly Sky News fodder.
Still, for all it’s talk about giving “a voice to the voiceless”, it’s just another bourgeois news outlet, albeit one with a different agenda to the western 24 hour news stations.
November 25th, 2006 at 4:10 am
sorry a FTA freak like me should have stated
11681Mhz Vertical Symbol Rate 27500 in English
note the regular 10 year old service has left 28E.
todate and I have yet to see it that much, it seems like a good mix of first rate journos, whos target is the moving story not ratings or the national alert color coding system of fear.