Link TV is running the English-language Al Jazeera feed on DirecTV 375 and Dish 9419. Comcast DC is one of the very few cable systems in America that carries the actual channel, Al Jazeera English. This has been a public service announcement from your Wonkette courtesy of commenters ttommyunger and bureaucrap.
UPDATE: Wonkette operative “Cody” writes in with this: “I don’t know if Comcast carries it but you can get Al Jazeera English over the air in DC for free. It’s channel 30.5. We’ve had it for awhile now.”
Over the air? Channel 30.5? Is that like Platform 9 3/4? Anyway, hooray! Some actual news on teevee.
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I can get this, yet I have to pay $312.00 for the NFL channel if I want to see hockey? Wonder if Andrew Siciliano is covering this?
This why I've opted out of the pay-teevee scam. Cable packages starting at $40/month, then up from there? That's, like, nearly half my booze budget. If there's something on I just have to see, I can always go to a bar/my moms/my workplace where the pay teevee is already paid for.
Ah, see, this is where those of you who live in terrible cities that lack skylines, because of the law, actually have an advantage over us New Yorkers. If I cared about watching anything on teevee at all, ever, even network crap, I kinda needed to pay for it, because I sure as hell don't have line of sight to the Empire State Building from my apartment.
Used to be that there were transmitters even higher up, in a place I actually would have had L.O.S to, but something happened in 2001, I Forgot what, and now we don't.
Only $80 a month for booze? Lightweight.
Did I mention I have my own still? Eighty bucks buys a whole lot of potatoes.
forty bucks is my weekly booze budget. slacker.
its also free online and the feed is very decent; not sure why you wouldn't just watch it there.
It's a lot more interesting and humourous in Arabic. Especially if you are drunk.
I don't speak Spanish, but that doesn't stop me from turning on Univision or Telemundo for the Mexican Soap Operas.
And the sexy time spanish babes!!
Salvatore Gigante. Arriba.
So Comcast (or "Xfinity") makes it available in Washington, but not here in Philly where their headquarters are; another reason to be glad I've given up on cable and get my non-broadcast TV over the internet now, and no longer pay those guys money.
Ugh, I remember how terrible Comcast was from my college days in the Philly suburbs. Many condolances for having to deal with them; I remember back when this happened, totally understanding where that old lady was coming from.
I bet Al Jazeera is the public access station in Dearborn.
On a more assholish note, "Mosaic World News From the Middle East" ll pm CST, M-F Channel 375 DirecTV (Link TV) has the most smokin' hot newsreaders on the teevee. Dubai TV rotates a young filly every other week or so who is absolutely stunning. They put Fox's blond white-bread stable to shame. When the FBI comes knockin' asking why I record such stuff, I plan to tell them: "For the chicks!", no shit.
good for al-Fappa, as it's known in that part of the world.
Fapfapfapfapfapfap!
Verizon FIOS has it (at least in Montgomery County) on channel 457
I'm not sure which Montgomery County you mean, the one just outside Philly or the one just outside Washington, but either way it's a nice reminder of how, while Verizon hardly offers FIOS anywhere in the city, they've made sure to cover the majority of the suburbs. Fuck you, Verizon, as well as Comcast.
Someday soon you will hear about me- I lost power for 68 hours here in upscale MC- I plan to confront Pepco executives-maybe with a drum circle
What station is that on my car's AM radio, dammit?
Aljazeerush.
edited to add: translating what "Aljazeerah" means to English, Rush is an "island" unto himself.
This is good info. I'll check out ch. 375 when I get home from work, unless that "Deadliest Catch" marathon is still going on.
MHz Networks in Northern Virginia is the only broadcasting company in the US that rebroadcasts AJE "over the air". Anyone within 50 miles (or so) of Falls Church, VA with a digital television tuner (and maybe a good antenna) — like me — can pick up AJE on digital channel 30.5. Metro DC "cable" systems are required to carry this "local" station due to "must carry" rules (I believe). I'm sure Comcast, Verizon, et al. weren't (until this weekend) thrilled to be required to carry it around here, but there ya go.
P.S. MHz Networks rebroadcasts several English-language stations of foreign origin/sponsorship, including RT America, home of the wonderful "The Alyona Show" with its frequent wonderful guest, Sara Benincasa. Channel 30.4.
Will this be anything like that "Naked News" show?
We're all naked under the burka.
You can also snatch it magically out over the air (!!) in DC on 30.5
This is why God invented the internets: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
Seriously, if you want to get real news on this topic, do not waste time on CNN or any other crap cable "news" station.
Channel 375 on DirecTV is LINK, but right now (9:20am PST 1/31/2011) it is showing an Iraq documentary and not Al Jazeera.
Goddamned Kabletown…
I'd love to give up on the TeeVee altogether, but it's still cheaper than broadband where I live.
Thanks for the shout-out, Ken. Please give me some money now. Shout-outs don't pay the rent, you know.
Why was this posted? Did Keith Olbermann sign on with Al Jazeera?
No, Charlie Sheen did.
He should.
Needs moar jews.
The Al Jazeera English anchor was getting real pissed at the spokesman for the French Ministry of Foreign affairs early this morning. Sounded like the anchor had been on the air for a long time and was sick of "if not this, then perhaps that unless it is something else" declarations.
Would have been fine on CNN, of course.
Will I get arrested for being a muslin terrorist if I watch?
"To Catch an Apostate" marathon every Friday!
I'd like to see Sarah Palin complain about this. Al Jazeera is about as far from "main stream" as media can get in the U.S.A.
Her biggest complaint would be that they don't talk about her enough.
They can get Al Jazeera at Hogwarts but not on Kabletown?
When is 2 and a half الرجال
I, personally, refuse to wath any media that is not Jew controlled.
We get Al Jazeera via DirecTV out in the boonies. You can also get it online at http://english.aljazeera.net/
I just tuned to 9410 on Dish and got something called Link showing a documentary on the Yangtze River. Back to the net for my Al Jazeera.
On DTV, 375 IS Link TV – they have great programming, and feeding Al Jazeera just drives my assertion home.
Okay, I'm watching Direct TB channel 375. It is basically the Amy Goodman network, Link TV. Al Jazeera World News is on now at 8:00 pm Rocky Mountain time but it's not like it's on all the time like fair and balanced Foxnews. It's actually called Global News Hour. I'm watching it and all of a sudden I feel like building a Mosque at Ground Zero.
Srsly, I watched Al Jazeera when I was traveling in the South Caucasus region a few years ago. It is Sober and sedate news, the way it used to be in the days of Cronkite and Huntley/Brinkley. No celebrity puff pieces, no featurettes on tattoo fads, no wash-blond anchors for fat old white conservative businessmen to fap to. Just News and Analysis that doesn't take the AMERICA FUCK YEAH!! approach of US teevee stations, but rather reminds us Murrikans that we are one small part of an incredibly complicated world.
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