They have one Arabic channel, Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English.
In recent years Al Jazeera's expansion has included two kids' channels and four sports channels.
He is the managing editor and Washington bureau chief for Al Jazeera's Arabic language news service.
The new Al Jazeera channel, like the original, is heavily subsidized by the emir of Qatar.
Quite literally, Al Jazeera provides the world with a front seat on the Middle East stage.
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That was why electronic media, from Al Jazeera to the internet, were so vital.
The Middle East is home to TV networks Al Jazeera and Abu Dhabi Media.
Al Jazeera English is sometimes determined to paint the U.S. in a negative light.
The emir of Qatar, Hamid bin Khalifa Al Thani, appointed his cousin as chairman of Al Jazeera.
The night after President Bush made his remark, Al Jazeera devoted an hour of programming reacting to it.
He says the government still talks to Al Jazeera's new English language news, but not the Arabic side.
Within a couple of weeks, Cooperman was being courted by everyone from CNBC and Fox to Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera does not have a management team in place in the U.S to run this new venture.
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Perhaps when Al Jazeera referred to the 7th century, they were referring only to the prohibition of interest.
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Al Jazeera has acquired Current TV, the cable television network founded by former US Vice President Al Gore.
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Politics aside, Al Jazeera America will find American audiences to be tough customers.
According to Al Jazeera, only certain journalists within the organization who work with the unit can access the information.
That's no longer the case, says Walid Omary, Al Jazeera's Jerusalem bureau chief.
The U.S.-backed Iraqi government kicked Al Jazeera out of the country in 2004.
Al Jazeera, like Current, believes that facts and truth lead to a better understanding of the world around us.
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Maintaining neutrality was the main objective of Al Jazeera Satellite television, according to Ibrahim Hilal, the channel's Chief Editor.
That's not to say Al Jazeera America, the working name for the new channel, won't have its own biases.
But its biggest challenge will be gaining acceptance in the U.S. "American viewers have preconceptions about Al Jazeera, " said Monck.
Current will be replaced by a new Al Jazeera America news channel based in New York, doubling its US-based staff.
Al Jazeera International will have bureaus ringing the world and four major studios based in Washington, London, Qatar and Malaysia.
In the past, the U.S. military in Iraq has detained Al Jazeera reporters and accused them of collusion with insurgents.
During the crisis, traffic to the Al Jazeera web site increased 1, 000% and traffic to the live blog spiked 2, 000%.
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Earlier in the day, Marieme had watched news from ABC, CNN, Al Jazeera, the BBC and a Senegalese satellite network.
Founded in 1996 as an Arabic-language satellite channel, Al Jazeera has become the most-watched news channel in the Arab world.
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