Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices

Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by cassianoleal on Sunday May 05, 2024 @06:00PM (#40268892)

At least in the UK, you used to be able to watch RT on broadcast. Now only the Internet version is accessible, and I think some ISPs DNS block them. Granted, a DNS block is easy to circumvent if you understand it, but most users will still be cut off.

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Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by Scoundreller on Sunday May 05, 2024 @06:29PM (#40269164)

As a total outlier, RT was paying the cable/sat systems to be carried in US/Canada, instead of the other way around.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/rts-purchase-of-cana...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/rt-channels-unique-carriage-dea...

I wonder if other countries were the same.

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Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by TylerE on Sunday May 05, 2024 @06:46PM (#40269310)

That’s not really an outlier. Common for political networks, religious channels, shopping networks….

Probably more than half the channels on a typical American cable system are paying to be there. Especially the stuff in the basic tiers.

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Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by jimbobthrowawy on Sunday May 05, 2024 @11:08PM (#40270802)

Was it actually broadcast terrestrially? I remember picking it up from Astra2 (the "skytv" satellite) but looking online, it's not transmitted anymore.

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Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by cassianoleal on Monday May 06, 2024 @10:13AM (#40274935)

I used to watch it on Freeview, picked up via a regular antenna if that's what you mean by "terrestrially".

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