Israel – With negotiations over a new contract at a stalemate, Israel’s largest cable provider is set to bump CNN from its program roster at the end of the month.
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The news that the Atlanta-based network might soon disappear from a majority of Israeli living rooms will probably not come as a disappointment to a vocal segment of the Israeli viewing public that views the cable network’s coverage of Israel and the Middle East as biased against the Jewish state.
Yet the same crowd is unlikely to be very happy with this week’s announcement about the channel that the cable and telecommunications company HOT is poised to sign to a contact instead: Al-Jazeera English.
Yossi Lubaton, a spokesman for HOT, says a deal with the controversial Qatar-based news network is imminent. It “should be finalized within a few days,” the Israeli English-language daily Jerusalem Post quoted him as saying. [ajc]
9:49 Count the number of dishes in Boro Park, Monsey, Williamsburg etc.
Almost every home/apt has one. I think we can assume they are not for communicating with extra terrestrials.
Since when do yidden have/watch sattelite tv?
Al-Jazeera is less anti Semitic than CNN.
I think Israel should have Al-Jazeera. It’s important for the people, especially those brought up as left-wing to understand how much the Arabs really hate israel; and to understand the giving in to them will not bring any peace.
I personally watching Al-Jazeera when I was in Israel. It was on Satellite TV, I think the YES network or something. I found it very interesting to see things from the Arab perspective.
Bin ladin can now address us in Hebrew?
This is so cool!
There isn’t much difference between CNN and Al-Jazeera.