Al Jazeera International launches
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Al Jazeera International, sister channel of Qatar based Al Jazeera, has begun broadcasting. The English language Al Jazeera International will broadcast global news 24 hours a day from its broadcast centres in Doha, Kuala Lumpur, Washington and London - going live 12 hours per day from the Doha headquarters, and then "following the sun" broadcasting 4 hours each from the other cities.
According to their own news article on the launch, the station is also going to be available online - hopefully for free.....
It will be one of the only truly global 24 news channels - BBC World is pretty good but has too much fluff and not enough breaking news, and all the other "international" channels are just repackaged versions of national channels with some dodgy "localised" content for each region.
Check out this video of their first 5 minutes of broadcasting - today they are covering stories live from Gaza, Darfur, Tehran, Zimbabwe, Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Russia, Jerusalem, Afghanistran, China and Iraq. I think this is going to be awesome.
According to their own news article on the launch, the station is also going to be available online - hopefully for free.....
It will be one of the only truly global 24 news channels - BBC World is pretty good but has too much fluff and not enough breaking news, and all the other "international" channels are just repackaged versions of national channels with some dodgy "localised" content for each region.
Check out this video of their first 5 minutes of broadcasting - today they are covering stories live from Gaza, Darfur, Tehran, Zimbabwe, Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Russia, Jerusalem, Afghanistran, China and Iraq. I think this is going to be awesome.
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