I've Got My Al Jazeera in English- How about you?

[JCMach1]

Most Americans can't get Al Jazeera English, the new news network that U.S. cable and satellite TV does not yet offer. But Pentagon employees can.

AJE premiered this week on closed circuit Pentagon TV, available to anyone with access to the Pentagon's channel 2, according to Bryan Whitman, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Public Affairs. It launched mid-November with 12 hours a day and will expand to 24 hour coverage in 2007.

"It's a new channel in the international marketplace and it merits at least looking at it," Whitman told Pentagon reporters Friday morning -- in part to spread the word across the Defense Department that AJE is available.

"It's important for the Defense Department when operating in a 21st century environment to have situational awareness of all the different media out there, to know what they are reporting," he said.

That makes DOD one of the few places Al-Jazeera English is broadcast on television in the United States... http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20061201-042820-3849r


VERY WELL DONE AND HIGH QUALITY SO FAR... LOTS OF INTERNATIONAL COVERAGE AND 100% NO BRITTNEY... THE CATCH, I LIVE IN THE UAE... :(

[Nimrod2005]

1. I get Pentagon TV from the Dish Network - I wonder if this going to be available in the US?

How is life in the UAE?

I went there once, it is an amazing place...

[Eric J in MN]

2. You can watch Al Jazeera in English on the web

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1EBB4C7F-7F2E-4257-A04C-56678862E31A.htm

[Armstead]

3. Drat, they make you install Real PLayer to watch it

Al Jazerra ought to figure out some way to b without forming an unholy alliance with REalPlayer

[Eric J in MN]

4. Download the free version of RealPlayer.

What is the big deal?

[Armstead]

5. Its filled with adware and takes over the computer

I use REal Alternative and otehr players to get around the crap that Real Player installs.

[otohara]

6. Direct TV Carries It

Dish is considering - Comcast will never, cuz they suck.