Al Jazeera is launching in New York City on Time Warner Cable. This is a major step in the network’s goal of expanding jihad propaganda further into the U.S. cable market and gives it a chance to reach two million households in a world capital of culture and commerce. The network will also launch on VerizonFiOS in the coming days.
AJE gained widespread acclaim for its coverage of the Arab uprising in Egypt this past January but was unable to convert that attention -- its website saw a 600% increase in traffic and Hillary Clinton labeled them 'real news' -- to a major cable distribution deal.
Instead they have landed smaller deals, such as the one that now makes them available on Time Warner. The network is subletting 23 hours of cable space from RISE, a cable channel adjunct to WRNN, a broadcast station in suburban New York, reports the NYT.
Al Jazeera English was established in 2006 as part of the Al Jazeera Network, with its own content - editors and journalists reaching a global English-speaking audience which currently stands at over 250 million households across 130 countries. The channel has continued to grow in reach and popularity, and has been recognized for its distinguished reporting and programming including being awarded this year's Columbia Journalism Award and "Best 24 Hour News Program" at the 48th and 50th Annual Monte-Carlo Television Festival. Al Jazeera English has also won Best News Channel three years running at the UK's Freesat awards. Al Jazeera English has received awards from the Royal Television Society, Amnesty International and YouTube and has received nominations for international Emmy awards in both the News and Current Affairs categories and the Royal Television Society awards as the 2009 and 2010 "News Channel of the Year" in the UK.That is the way the Capitalism Cookie crumbles. Most of NY could of watched it on the internet anyway, but Americans should do everything they can to question a news station whose basic point of view is from a religion of hate.