The new Al Jazeera channel, like the original, is heavily subsidized by the emir of Qatar.
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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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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Current will be replaced by a new Al Jazeera America news channel based in New York, doubling its US-based staff.
The Qatar-owned broadcaster plans to replace Current with a new Al Jazeera America news channel based in New York, doubling its US-based staff.
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Ayish says Al Jazeera Satellite TV channel was the most popular broadcaster in the Arab World, followed by Abu Dhabi Television, and Al Arabiyah channel respectively.
The Al Jazeera English news channel will begin airing Wednesday.
Under a fifth of Egyptians now get their news from state television, while more than half follow the al-Jazeera satellite channel (whose crews were repeatedly harassed during the election).
Yet it comes as a surprise that Yusuf Qaradawi, the star preacher on the popular al-Jazeera satellite channel, who is a widely respected moderate on most issues, should find himself at the heart of a far bigger storm.
Founded in 1996 as an Arabic-language satellite channel, Al Jazeera has become the most-watched news channel in the Arab world.
This is a report of Television Channel Al Jazeera.
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His defection was first reported by Qatar-based TV channel al-Jazeera.
The programme gives voice to many different perspectives, from following an American aircraft carrier crew during the Iraq war to filming reporters on the Arab news channel al-Jazeera covering the same conflict.
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While it is assumed that the new station would not be a mouthpiece for the French government, French media chiefs say it would offer a different perspective on world events than that offered by CNN or the BBC, or the increasingly popular Arabic satellite channel al-Jazeera.
They have one Arabic channel, Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English.
In 2007 he started writing for the website of al-Jazeera, the Arabic television channel based in Qatar.
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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.
In January, Al Jazeera bought Current TV, the struggling cable channel co-founded by former vice president Al Gore, and announced plans to launch a new U.S.-based channel.
That's not to say Al Jazeera America, the working name for the new channel, won't have its own biases.
Maintaining neutrality was the main objective of Al Jazeera Satellite television, according to Ibrahim Hilal, the channel's Chief Editor.
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 International Managing Editor Nigel Parsons says the new channel will be "totally independent", although plans announced earlier this year to put the manager of the Arabic channel in charge of both channels reportedly caused disquiet among journalists at the English-language channel.
But Marash says the new channel will develop its own approach independently of Al-Jazeera in Arabic.
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.
"We'd like to inform our subscribers that al-Jazeera SMS service has been compromised by hackers who have sent fake news, " the TV channel said in a tweet.
Analysts agreed, saying the company could be leveraging Al Jazeera America, seeking to get a per-subscriber payment for the cable firm in exchange for carrying the channel.
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