They have one Arabic channel, Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English.
Al Jazeera English is sometimes determined to paint the U.S. in a negative light.
The news channel of the year trophy went to Al Jazeera English, while ITN's Sir David Nicholas was presented with the lifetime achievement award.
Al Jazeera said that almost 40% of all online viewing of its current London-headquartered Al Jazeera English news channel comes from the United States.
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Al Jazeera English also is live-streamed at no cost online and provides insight into what the bigger, new Al Jazeera America will look like, he said.
There's a reason Al Jazeera English, which will supply 40% of the content to the new channel, has barely gotten a foothold in the United States.
The Al Jazeera English news channel will begin airing Wednesday.
Dave Marash, the ABC News veteran who once worked for Al Jazeera English, told me the network has a "post-colonial" view of America and its stories can be infused with that attitude.
In 2006, it launched Al Jazeera English, but reaching its goal of gaining national television distribution within the U.S. has proved elusive, as cable outlets refused to carry it outside of a few local markets.
"I think it's a very, very well-done news network, " said media expert and former White House correspondent Porter Bibb of Mediatech Capital Partners in New York, where he listens to a related network, Al Jazeera English, now available in a tiny fraction of U.S. markets.
In addition to Netflix, TV and movie fans can access Amazon Instant video (including free programs on Amazon prime), Vudu, Hulu Plus, HBO Go (you need a cable or satellite subscription to sign in) and even news and information channels ranging from Al Jazeera English live programming to Fox News, HuffPost Live and plenty more.
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Could you just describe to us sort of a broadcast day in Al-Jazeera English?
Among the targets the group claims to have hacked are Twitter feeds of Al-Jazeera English and the BBC.
He is an anchor for Al-Jazeera English based in Washington, D.
In 2010, Al-Jazeera English blamed a "very aggressive hostility" from the administration of former President George W Bush for reluctance among US cable companies to show the network.
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David Marash, former "Nightline" correspondent, now anchor for Al-Jazeera English.
But the best way for curious Americans to watch Al Jazeera in English will be on the Web those with broadband Internet service can see it for free.
Number two, whereas most of our conventional competition focuses on the universe that is North America, Western Europe, Israel and Japan, Al-Jazeera English broadcasts the whole spectrum of the world.
In February, the SEA said it had been behind an attack on al-Jazeera English's website, and in July the same group gained access to the organisation's Twitter account and began posting stories denouncing the Syrian opposition fighters.
Of these, the biggest is al-Jazeera's long-delayed English-language channel, Al Jazeera International, which should be getting into its stride by the beginning of 2007.
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He says the government still talks to Al Jazeera's new English language news, but not the Arabic side.
But Al Jazeera's current English broadcast is "excellent, " without the bias alleged by U.S. politicians, said O'Connor, author of the roryoconnor.org blog and a contributor to Al Jazeera's website.
He claimed that there was a risk it could assume an international identity very similar to its main Western competitors, pointing out that al-Jazeera's English-language website relied heavily on Western news agencies.
Don't expect the same kind of fuss that was made over Katie Couric's big NBC debut to be repeated for Al Jazeera 's new English-language channel, broadcasting for the first time on Wednesday.
Today marks one year since the debut of Al-Jazeera International, the English language version of the Arabic news service.
More due diligence might have included a review of the close journalistic coverage over the years of Al Jazeera's Arabic and English broadcasts, which discloses the unsurprising fact that the network reflects the interests of the government that runs it making it akin to Vladimir Putin's Russia Today and Beijing's Xinhua.
Only subscribers to the DishTV satellite system will be able to get the English-language Al Jazeera for an extra fee.
Al Jazeera was forced to close its English-language bureau in China after the government refused to renew the credentials of its Beijing correspondent.
Al-Jazeera International and Russia Today are among the English-language global news channels also set to launch in 2006.
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