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.
"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.
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.
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.
Al-Jazeera International and Russia Today are among the English-language global news channels also set to launch in 2006.
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