's other big European presence is through British Sky Broadcasting Britain's biggest satellite channel which has 8.7 million subscribers.
Qatar's ruler also happens to bankroll the al-Jazeera satellite channel, which American officials often accuse of cheering on their enemies.
Founded in 1996 as an Arabic-language satellite channel, Al Jazeera has become the most-watched news channel in the Arab world.
Mr. FAISAL YASIRI (Owner, Diyar Satellite Channel): I am a television man, and for 40 years I worked with the other people.
The Television Corporation of Sing-apore (TCS) is planning an English-language satellite channel.
One of the star competitors Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who preaches on the al-Jazeera satellite channel has sponsored the creation of an international council of ulema, or religious scholars.
He's also the founder and owner of the Diyar Satellite Channel, which for the last eight months, he's been managing from his new base in Amman.
His television show, broadcast throughout the Arab world on an Islamic satellite channel and subtitled in English, brings studio audiences to tears with talk of sacrifice and martyrdom.
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's other big European presence is through British Sky Broadcasting (nyse: BSY - news - people ) Britain's biggest satellite channel which has 8.7 million subscribers.
Red-Handed is backed by BBC America, a cable and satellite channel run by the corporation's commercial arm BBC Worldwide, which is dedicated to showing "the best of British talent".
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).
EchoStar says it opposed the rule on principle, on behalf of consumers' presumed First Amendment right to watch any satellite channel they choose, even if it did not originate locally.
"The British officials have backed themselves into a corner by proposing to extradite me, although it was obviously prohibited by the (Russian) Constitution, " he said on Russia Today, an English-language satellite channel under Kremlin control.
The ad-supported basic cable and satellite channel, available in about 62 million U.S. homes, did a road test of the new name and found significantly more people said they would watch UP over the alphabet-soup GMC.
Even so, it's a significant leap forward for the Qatar-based satellite channel, which gained notoriety in 2001 for being the first station to broadcast video statements made by Osama bin Laden and other leaders of al-Qaida.
But when it shifted its news emphasis to Iraq, it lost many of its Jordanian viewers (most of whom are Palestinian) to al-Manar, the bombastic satellite channel run by the radical Shia militia in Lebanon, Hizbullah.
Mr. Shi, assuring the Internet company that his program would not stray too far from its down-home spirit, turned down an opportunity to have his show broadcast on TV by a local satellite channel in southwest China.
The author of scores of books, the sponsor of a popular Islamist website, and the star of religious programming on the Arabic-language al-Jazeera satellite channel, Mr Qaradawi takes full advantage of his scholarly stature and his bully pulpit.
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.
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.
Turkey, which has NATO's second-largest army, fiercely opposed Mr Fogh Rasmussen's candidacy for NATO's top job because he was Denmark's prime minister during the Prophet Muhammad cartoon crisis and because the Danes have refused to ban Roj TV, a satellite channel run by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) that is beamed out of Denmark.
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Weather.com is the online version of the Weather Channel, the 24-hour cable and satellite television channel launched in 1982 and now available in 86 million American households.
Twelve policemen and a child are among those killed, Pakistani satellite TV channel Geo News reports.
MCB, but more radical than its parent issued a call through al-Jazeera's satellite television channel for the Liverpudlian's unconditional release.
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Since then, the Qatar-based Gezira satellite television channel has raised eyebrows throughout the region with its politically daring fare.
Senior officials at the satellite TV channel are meeting in Qatar to consider the recording, received by the channel's bureau in Paris.
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.
Assange and RT, an English-language international satellite news channel, would not release the guest lineup in advance, but hinted that the first interview would be controversial.
With the arrival of a CNN producer to run Al Hurra, the US-funded Arabic-language satellite TV channel has become "more like Al Jazeera, " Joel Mowbray writes in the Wall Street Journal.
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