America's cable providers have for the most part shunned the Qatar-based network's first English-language offering.
"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.
The deal with Time Warner would begin with the 2012-13 season, with one new regional sports network televising Lakers games in English and another RSN showing the games in Spanish.
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The NUJ said the BBC was planning around 30 compulsory redundancies, affecting areas including BBC Scotland, the Asian Network, the World Service and English regions.
The country now boasts legions of thriving small businesses and a fair number of world-class ones whose English-speaking bosses network confidently with the global elite.
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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.
It is true that Venetian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and English merchants participated in this global trading network.
The broadcast may also offer a hint of what can be expected when the network takes over as exclusive U.S. broadcast partners of the English Premier League next season.
The staff at risk are based at the BBC's operations in Scotland, the English regions, and radio stations including Five Live and the Asian Network.
The network relented in its opposition to streaming the closing ceremony live, though it offered an English-language pool feed rather than its edited program.
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