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Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN) (Arabic: الجزيرة‎, romanized: al-jazīrah, IPA: l (d)ʒæˈziːrɐ , referring to the
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state-owned
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headquartered at Qatar Radio and Television Corporation Complex in
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. It is the parent company of International Arabic news channel
Al Jazeera Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazeera ...
and other similarly branded factual
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operations. Initially launched as an Arabic
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and current affairs satellite TV channel, it has since expanded into a network with several outlets, including the internet and specialty
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s in multiple languages and beyond. The chairman is Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer Al Thani. The acting director general is Mostefa Souag. The organisation is a " private foundation for
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" under Qatari law.Se
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promulgated in accordance with provisions o
Decree-Law No. 21 of 2006 Regarding Private Foundations for the Public Benefit
(amended 2007) issued under the
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(ibid. Articles 53–54). This non-profit conglomerate has its world headquarters registered under the same proviso (cf. Australia's Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act (amended 2019) and Broadcasting Services Act (amended 2020), France's Signature of first contract of objectives and means between the State and France Médias Monde, Germany's Deutsche Welle Act (amended 2004), Japan's The Broadcast Act (amended 2010), United Kingdom's BBC Royal Charter (amended 2017) & Broadcasting Act (amended 1996), United States' International Broadcasting Act (amended 2016) & Public Broadcasting Act). Under this organisational structure, it receives
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from the
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and according to media scholar Tine Ustad Figenschou, while both Al Jazeera and Qatari officials stress that the network is politically and editorially independent, this independence is "relative and conditional." The network is sometimes perceived to have mainly Islamist perspectives, promoting the Muslim Brotherhood, and having a pro- Sunni and an anti-
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bias in its reporting of regional issues. Al Jazeera has aired
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. The network's news operation currently has 70 bureaus around the world that are shared between the network's channels and operations, the second-largest amount of bureaux of any media company in the world after the
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. In June 2017, the Saudi, Emirati, Bahraini, and Egyptian governments, supported by 12 other OIC member governments (with initial rumours claiming the support of additional governments; later reduced to 9 member governments by the latest of August 2019), pressed for the closure of the entire conglomerate as one of thirteen demands made to the government of Qatar during the 2017-2021
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. Other media networks have spoken out in support of the network.


History


Launch

The original Al Jazeera Satellite Channel (then called JSC or Jazeera Satellite Channel) was launched on 1 November 1996. This was following the closure of the first
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language television station, then a joint venture with
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, owned by Saudi King Fahd's cousin,
Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud ( ar, خالد بن فيصل ال سعود ''Khālid bin Fayṣal Āl Suʿūd''; born 24 February 1940) is a Saudi Arabian politician, artist, and poet who is the governor of Makkah Province, in office from 2007 to 2013 ...
. The BBC channel had closed after a year and a half when the Saudi government attempted to thwart a documentary pertaining to
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. The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh
Hamad bin Khalifa Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Hamad bin Abdullah bin Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani ( ar, حمد بن خليفة الثاني; born 1 January 1952) is a member of the ruling Al Thani Qatari royal family. He was the ruling Emir of Qatar from 1995 u ...
, provided a loan of QAR 500 million ($137 million) to sustain Al Jazeera through its first five years, as Hugh Miles detailed in his book ''Al Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel That Is Challenging the West''. Al Jazeera's first day on the air was 1 November 1996. It offered 6-hours of programming per day; this would increase to
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by the end of 1997. It was broadcast to the immediate neighborhood as a terrestrial signal, and on cable, as well as through satellites (which was also free to users in the Arab world). 1 January 1999 was Al Jazeera's first day of
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broadcasting. Employment had more than tripled in one year to 500 employees, and the agency had bureaux at a dozen sites as far as EU and
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. Its annual budget was estimated at $25 million at the time.


Expansion


Al Jazeera English

In 2001, Al Jazeera was the singular international news network in Kabul, Afghanistan. Especially after 9/11, the demand for the English translation of Al Jazeera had increased. Therefore, Al Jazeera started to think about a service in the English language. In late 2002, the director of marketing of Al Jazeera, Ali Mohamed Kama began to push a "repositioning" of Al Jazeera, "accompanied by the introduction of English subtitles and dubbing of broadcast into English." In 2003, Al Jazeera hired its first English-language journalists, among whom was
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, from the BBC's
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. In March 2003, it launched an English-language website (see below). The name of the website was "Al Jazeera Net"; it was launched by younger journalists. The site published various stories covered by the network, but it was not depending on Arabic-language channels and websites. The website aimed to connect to the Western audience, cooperate with BBC, and be "a global citizen's home page." However, twelve hours after the launch of the website, "Al Jazeera Net" was kept offline due to many denials of service attacks. Over twenty-four hours later, "Al Jazeera Net" came back online however, Freedom Cyber Force Militia hacked the website to redirect web browsers to a picture of the
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with a slogan saying that "Let Freedom Ring". After that, "Al Jazeera Net" came to be without a secured place to host because three of Al Jazeera's web providers, Horizons Media, Information Services, and Akamai Technologies canceled the contract. Also in March, Yahoo and AOL stopped advertising contracts with Al Jazeera. Therefore, the English-translated website was put off later in 2003. On 4 July 2005 Al Jazeera officially announced plans to launch a new English-language satellite service to be called Al Jazeera International. The new channel started at 12h
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on 15 November 2006 under the name Al Jazeera English and has broadcast centers in
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(next to the original Al Jazeera headquarters and broadcast center), London,
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and Washington D.C. The channel is a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week news channel, with 12 hours broadcast from Doha, and four hours each from London, Kuala Lumpur, and Washington D.C. Among its staff were journalists hired from
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's '' Nightline'' and other top news outfits. Josh Rushing, a former media handler for CENTCOM during the
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war, agreed to provide commentary; David Frost was also on board. In an interesting technical feat, the broadcast of the new operation was handed off between bases in
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, London, Washington, D.C., and
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on a daily cycle. The new English language venture faced considerable regulatory and commercial hurdles in the North America market for its perceived sympathy with extremist causes. At the same time, others felt Al Jazeera's competitive advantage lay in programming in the
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. There were hundreds of millions of potential viewers among the non-
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speaking Muslims in Europe and Asia, however, and many others who might be interested in seeing news from the Middle East read by local voices. If the venture panned out, it would extend the influence of Al Jazeera, and tiny
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, beyond even what had been achieved in the station's first decade. In an interesting twist of fate, the BBC World Service was preparing to launch its own
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station in 2007.


Al Jazeera Balkans

In 2011 Al Jazeera Media Network created
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, a version of Al Jazeera in the Bosnian/ Croatian/ Serbian language(s) stationed in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina catering to and broadcasting around the
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.


Al Jazeera Turk

In 2013 they announced the creation of
Al Jazeera Türk Al Jazeera Türk (AJT) was a news website in Turkish. It was owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network. Attempts to launch a television network do not appear to have succeeded. The website was shut down on 3 May 2017. Early background and first laun ...
, a version of Al Jazeera in the Turkish language(s), stationed in Istanbul, and catering to and broadcasting around Turkey. On January 22, 2014, Al Jazeera Türk's website was launched with news content. The move made Al Jazeera Türk the first 24-hour news operation to go digital before broadcast. The Website shut down in 2017 without the channel being launched.


Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera America was an American version of Al Jazeera English. The channel launched on 20 August 2013 exclusively on cable and satellite systems in the
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. On 2 January 2013, Al Jazeera Media Network announced that it purchased
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from its founders
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,
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, and
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, in the United States and would be launching an American news channel. Originally 60% of the channel's programming would be produced in America while 40% would be from Al Jazeera English, which later changed to almost all the content being U.S. originated. Though Current TV had large distribution throughout the United States on cable and satellite TV, it averaged only 28,000 viewers at any time. The acquisition of Current TV by Al Jazeera allowed
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to drop the network due to its low ratings, but released a statement saying that they would consider carrying the channel after they evaluated whether it made sense for their customers. The channel was later added to Time Warner and
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lineups after a new carriage deal was agreed upon. On January 13, 2016, Al Jazeera America CEO Al Anstey announced that the network would cease operations on April 12, 2016, citing the "economic landscape".


Al Jazeera Sports

In 2004 Al Jazeera expanded into the world of sports with the establishment of Al Jazeera Sports (now known as
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) and the building of 8 Arabic language specialty sports channels. On 1 January 2014, Al Jazeera Sports was renamed
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after it along with all of the organisation's non-
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and current affairs assets were spun off and
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into
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; the channels were legally spun off to have consistency with all the Network's sports properties. According to Kate O'Brian, President of Al Jazeera America, Al Jazeera Sports revenue helped fund the network when it was in operation similar to how BBC Worldwide helps fund the BBC.


JeemTV and Baraem

On September 9, 2005, Al Jazeera established a children's division with the launch of
Al Jazeera Children's Channel JeemTV ( ar, تلفزيون جيم), formerly known as Al Jazeera Children's Channel (abbreviated as JCC) ( ar, قناة الجزيرة للأطفال), is a Qatari pay television (formerly free-to-air until 2016) channel, aimed at kids between ...
(since 2013 it was known as JeemTV). The channel targets an audience of 7 to 15-year-olds and broadcasts 24 hours a day. On January 16, 2009, Baraem launched, the channel targets an audience of 3 to 7-year-olds and broadcasts 17 hours a day (6 am to 11 pm Doha time). On April 1, 2016, both JeemTV and Baraem were acquired by
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and were made part of
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. Since then, as a result, the channels were no longer free to view and made exclusive to beIN Channels Network.


Other channels

Al Jazeera Media Network also operates
Al Jazeera Documentary Channel Al Jazeera Documentary Channel (Arabic: الجزيرة الوثائقية) is a pan-Arab satellite Arabic language film and documentary channel and a branch of the Al Jazeera Media Network based in Doha, Qatar. It was launched at 12:00 GMT on ...
an Arabic language documentary channel, Al Jazeera Mubasher, a live politics and public interest channel (similar to C-SPAN,
Houses of the Oireachtas Channel Houses of the Oireachtas Channel ( ga, Bealach Thithe an Oireachtais) or publicly called Oireachtas TV is a public service broadcaster for the two houses of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament). The channel was created under the Broadcasting Act 2 ...
or
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), which broadcasts conferences in real time without editing or commentary the first channel of its kind in the Middle East.


Restructuring

Al Jazeera restructured its operations to form a network that contains all their different channels. Wadah Khanfar, then the managing director of the Arabic Channel, was appointed as the Director-General of the Al Jazeera Network. He also acted as the managing director of the Arabic channel. Khanfar resigned on 20 September 2011, proclaiming that he had achieved his original goals and that eight years was enough time for any leader of an organization, in an interview aired on Aljazeera English. On 26 November 2009, Al Jazeera English received approval from the CRTC, which enables Al Jazeera English to broadcast via satellite in Canada. In 2011, in accordance with the renaming of the corporation, AJMN was legally re-designated from a "public institution to a 'private institution of public utility'"; however, it was unknown how this would affect editorial management and funding. The network is also funded through its television contracts and revenue from its sports division.


Al Jazeera and the 2011 Arab Spring

Al Jazeera covered the
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more than any other news outlets and had a significant role in spreading the Arab uprising. Al Jazeera was the leading media spreading the news about unrest in a small city in
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throughout the Middle East in 2011. People in the Middle East have heavily relied on Al Jazeera to obtain news about their regions and the world even more than YouTube and Google.
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, who at the time of the
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was the
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stated that "Al-Jazeera has been the leader in that
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literally changing people’s minds and attitudes. And like it or hate it, it is really effective." The news of unrest in the Arab states was broadcast by Al Jazeera in Arabic for the
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as well as in English for the audiences from the rest of the world. In
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, Ben Ali regime banned Al Jazeera from operating in the country, but with the help of
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users inside
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, Al Jazeera was able to access reports from the events such as protests and government crackdowns that were taking place inside the country. The intensive media coverage of people's uprising against their leaders by Al Jazeera mobilized more people from other parts of the country to join the revolution. The population in other Arab countries such as
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, Syria also mobilized against their governments influenced by the Tunisian's successful revolt which was extensively covered by Al Jazeera in local languages. The international opinion also came to support the Arab movements in the
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since Al Jazeera English covered and reported governmental human right abuses against political activists and even ordinary citizens in the
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.


Subsidiaries


Television

Al Jazeera media network operates a number of specialty channels besides its original flagship news channel. Al Jazeera network's TV channels include (d):


Other operations


Mobile

Al Jazeera Media Network also operates mobile apps for their various channels with Al Jazeera Mobile and Al Jazeera New Media


Online

The network operates Aljazeera.com which is the main website for the Al Jazeera English,
Al Jazeera Balkans Al Jazeera Balkans (AJB) is an international news television station headquartered in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina aimed at the media markets of the countries that used to be constituent units of SFR Yugoslavia. It is part of the Al Jazee ...
and the former
Al Jazeera America Al Jazeera America was an American pay television news channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network. The channel was launched on August 20, 2013, to compete with CNN, HLN, MSNBC, Fox News, and in certain markets RT America. It was Al Jazeera' ...
web sites. For its Arabic language properties, it has Aljazeera.net. and for its Turkish properties Aljazeera.tr. On January 1, 2018, Al Jazeera launched a Mandarin-language news website becoming the first Middle Eastern news provider to target the Chinese audience. The staff of the project is in contact with their audience via Chinese social media like Weibo, Meipai and WeChat.


AJ+

Al Jazeera Media Network also has a digital online-only news channel AJ+. The channel is an online and mobile-only news channel primarily found on various social media networks and
YouTube YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second mo ...
and operated by Al Jazeera New Media out of
San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
. The channel consists of mostly On Demand content. It soft-launched on 13 June 2014 with a new webpage,
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page and videos on
YouTube YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second mo ...
. The full channel launched with an app in September 2014. There are also
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and
Spanish language Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in th ...
versions of the channel.


Al Jazeera Podcasts

In 2017, the network launched a podcasting network called Jetty. Later renamed Al Jazeera Podcasts, the network is available via the network's website as well as
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, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher,
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, and iHeartRadio. The network is based out of San Francisco alongside AJ+ and is available in English.


Rightly

In 2021, the network launched Rightly, an online news channel aimed at center-right American conservatives. The channel much like AJ+ is only available online, primarily on YouTube. The launch of the channel spurred questions from Al Jazeera staff questioning if the channel took away from Al Jazeera's mission to be non-partisan and from various media critics wondering if conservative audiences would watch a channel from Al Jazeera, a long time target of American conservatives.


Education

Al Jazeera Media Network owns and operates the Al Jazeera Center for Studie
Al Jazeera Center for Studies
Established in 2006, the Al Jazeera Center for Studies conducts in-depth analysis of current affairs at both regional and global levels. Its research agenda focuses primarily on geopolitics and strategic developments in the Arab world and surrounding regions. The center with an extensive network of distinguished researchers, and a wide range array of experts from across the globe, the center aims to promote dialogue and build bridges of mutual understanding and cooperation between cultures, civilizations, and religions. The center also contains the Al Jazeera Media Training and Development Center.


Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival

The Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival''
Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival
is an annual film festival held at the Doha Sheraton in
Doha, Qatar Doha ( ar, الدوحة, ad-Dawḥa or ''ad-Dōḥa'') is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf coast in the east of the country, north of Al Wakrah and south of Al Khor (city), Al Khor, it is home to m ...
. The first festival was held on 18 April 2005. Every year the festival has a different theme. The vision of the festival is to make the festival an invitation.... to introduce different cultures from all over the world, foster better relationships through an exchange of experiences and knowledge thus creating a foundation of respect and understanding. Al Jazeera seeks to make the festival become a place where filmmakers from different countries and cultures meet to create a unique platform that celebrates creative talent and encourages a cultural interest in documentary films. The festival endeavors to promote creative talent from all over the world and in this way, leave behind a unique stamp of originality and professionalism. The
Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival The Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival - AJB DOC is an annual international documentary film festival that is based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its first edition was held from 21–25 September 2018. The festival was establishe ...
' was started in 2018 as an annual international documentary
film festival A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upo ...
based in
Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see names in other languages'') is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area including Sarajevo ...
,
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H ...
.


Lawsuits against AT&T

Al Jazeera Media Network sued AT&T in 2013 for refusing to carry its United States channel, claiming this was in violation of their contract. The two sides later settled in 2014 leading to the channel being added on AT&T's
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* Al Jazeera effect


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