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Al Jazeera English "World News" to air on Link TV weeknights at 10:00pm ET starting June 1st
Starting June 1st, Link TV will present a new global news hour including "World News" from Al Jazeera English, anchored from Washington, D.C., followed by Link TV's Peabody Award-winning original news program "Mosaic: World News from the Middle East." The nightly news hour will be broadcast weeknights from 10:00pm-11:00pm ET/7:00pm-8:00pm PT.
(Billboard Publicity Wire/PRWEB ) May 28, 2009 -- Link TV's senior director of Middle Eastern Programming, Jamal Dajani, announced today that the channel will present a new global news hour including "World News" from Al Jazeera English, anchored from Washington, D.C., followed by Link TV's Peabody Award-winning original news program "Mosaic: World News from the Middle East." The nightly news hour will be broadcast on weeknights from 10:00pm-11:00pm ET/7:00pm-8:00pm PT. For schedule and background information, visit LinkTV.org.
Dajani states, "At a time when international news coverage has been receding rapidly in most U.S. news outlets due to closures of foreign news bureaus, Al Jazeera English has been filling the void with professional, and comprehensive reporting from around the globe. The addition of Al Jazeera's "World News" fits perfectly with Link TV's mission of informing the audience."
Since its inception in 1999, the goal of Link TV has been to offer Americans and the world an array of diverse perspectives on world news and culture that are not typically emphasized in conventional media. In 2008, Link TV was the first national channel to regularly air an Al Jazeera English program with the premiere of the acclaimed documentary series "Witness." With the launch of "World News" from Al Jazeera English, Link TV again marks its commitment to giving viewers the opportunity to form their own opinions about global issues by giving the public first-hand access to original programming from around the world.
Al Jazeera English is available in more than 140 million households worldwide in more than 100 countries. Since launching in 2006, Al Jazeera English has become a world leader in news coverage from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. With broadcast centers strategically located in Kuala Lumpur, Doha, London and Washington, D.C., and nearly 70 news bureaus around the world, the channel's aim is to provide independent and impartial news for a global audience, giving a voice to under-reported regions.
"We are pleased to partner with Link TV to bring AJE to a wider audience in the United States," said Kimeran Daley, Head of North American Distribution Sales for Al Jazeera Network. "We know there is demand in the U.S. for access to AJE's groundbreaking news coverage and a great interest in seeing news that represents a truly global perspective. Link TV's commitment to showing international news makes them an ideal partner for Al Jazeera English in America."
About Link TV
Link TV is the nation's largest independent television broadcaster, devoted to providing diverse global perspectives on news, current events and world culture not typically available on other U.S. networks. Link TV regularly airs a robust selection of award-winning films and documentaries that explore the human condition from different multi-cultural perspectives.
A pioneer in news and current affairs programming, Link TV has been recognized domestically and internationally for its original news programs including the Peabody Award-winning daily broadcast "Mosaic: World News from the Middle East," which monitors and airs unedited selections of news reports from more than 36 Middle-Eastern broadcasters; and "Global Pulse," which compares and contrasts news reports from around the world on critical issues. Link also offers its viewers original, innovative participatory programs promoting national and global citizen action. Most of Link's programs are available nowhere else on American television.
Link TV is a nationwide television network available in more than 31 million U.S. homes as a basic service on DIRECTV channel 375 and DISH Network channel 9410. Select programs are shown on more than 50 urban cable systems, including New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Link TV's original programs, music videos, documentary clips and artist interviews are streamed on the Internet. For complete background information, program schedule, and internet streaming, go to LinkTV.org.
About Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera English is the first English language world news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East. Launched in November 2006, Al Jazeera English is setting the global news agenda and acts as a bridge between cultures. With unique access as the channel of reference for Middle East events, and broadcast centers strategically placed around the world in Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington DC, Al Jazeera English is balancing the information flow from South to North, providing independent and impartial news for a global audience from a grass roots level, giving voice to different perspectives from under-reported regions around the world.
Al Jazeera English is available in more than 100 countries to more than 140 million households worldwide, and was awarded "Best 24 Hour News Program" at the 48th Annual Monte Carlo Television Festival. The channel also received its first two International Emmy nominations in 2008 in both news and current affairs, for its groundbreaking coverage of the military crackdown in Myanmar and for its Red Mosque coverage. Al Jazeera English's dedicated page on YouTube is the website's most watched international news channel, with more than 21 million videos viewed since its launch in April 2007.
The Arabic language Al Jazeera Satellite Channel is well known as a pioneer in bringing independent and current affairs television to the region and changing the face of news in the Middle East.
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