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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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