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As tough as it has been in the U.S., Al Jazeera execs say they are not willing to compromise to ink a deal. Commercial director Lindsey Oliver says cable operators are in a position to drive a hard bargain, including forcing new channels to agree to skip streaming over the Internet to reduce competition. But that's not a pact worth making, she says.
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Al Jazeera, Arabic for the "island," began broadcasting in 1996, a few months after BBC World Service launched a Arabic TV channel. The BBC channel faced censorship demands by the Saudi government, and after two years in operation the BBC shut it down.
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Al Jazeera bought 12 episodes of TOM, marking the latest addition to Cromosoma's output deal with Al Jazzera Children's Channel (JCC). Previous acquisitions include THE TRIPLETS, JUANITO JONES, MINIMAN and THE BABY TRIPLETS.
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Talk shows and the stick-in-the-eye newscasts have propelled Al Jazeera to the top of the ratings heap since its launch ten years ago. At first, Saddam Hussein sent out the satellite police to track down insurgent dishes that could receive it and follow the coaxial cables back to the offending TV sets. And the Saudis played endless loop recitations of the Koran on the same frequency to jam an offending broadcast channel. But the dishes kept procreating.
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Al-Jazeera's feisty Arabic news channel is well known for angering leaders in the West and the Arab world, where it has been banned from operating in 18 countries at various times. Four Arab nations still bar its reporters.
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The online version of Arab satellite news channel Al-Jazeera has seen traffic soar since the September 11 terrorist attacks. The largest number of visitors to aljazeera.net, which now serves 3 million page views per day, comes from the U.S., even though the site is in Arabic.
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