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Channel Numbers

In the infobox, the channel number for Al Jazeera English are listed for Comcast. I do not know where the person who added that was from, but the numbers do hold true throughout the entire country. I'm not sure if I should add a full list of channel numbers, or delete the section altogether. Thoughts? UncappingCone64 (talk) 22:38, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

New Yorker Hotel / Manhattan Center

There's been a slow-motion edit war whether Al Jazeera America's studios are in the New Yorker Hotel [1] or Manhattan Center [2], [3], [4]. Guys, Manhattan Center is on the ground floor of the New Yorker Hotel. The entrance for staff and hotel guests are different doors, thus different addresses, but it's the same building. That's why sources keep saying both. The promotional launch video featured employees gushing about working in the historic hotel, and even interviewed the New Yorker Hotel's security guard. This is like arguing whether they're in Manhattan or New York. Blackguard 22:50, 22 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Section on reception?

I came to this article to find info on how AJA has been received in the US since its inception. That info is missing. This is al-Jazeera's branch in the US competing with our abysmal news channels! Come on guys, this oversight can't be allowed to continue. I don't have the time to do it myself right now, sadly. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | ^{Say Shalom!} 18 Nisan 5774 11:58, 18 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Verizon FiOS now added, exception to Google Fiber, Bright House Networks, and Time Warner Cable being the only ones carrying it..

I don't really know how to word the edit, but as Verizon FiOS now carries the network in HD, the last phrase in the third paragraph is now no longer true. Could someone edit this? Thanks! Pimentelrodrigo (talk) 19:38, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

High-Definition Carriage

I reverted the following sentence.

Google Fiber, Bright House Networks, Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS adding in on May 14th, 2014^[1] are the only providers in the United States that broadcast Al Jazeera America in high definition due to those being new deals.^[2]^[3]

Two reasons:

The way the sentence was written implied that all four networks were added in high-definition on 14 May 2014, not just Verizon FiOS.
The citations, as written, don't match the facts.

I changed the tense in the original sentence to denote a past and separate action. I restored the paragraph referencing Verizon FiOS's carriage as an action separate and apart of the other three networks. I also added an additional citation for the Verizon FiOS action.
Mikeylito (talk) 11:14, 19 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Date Verizon's HD Carriage was added

I have concerns regarding the accuracy of the date that Verizon added Al Jazeera America HD. There have been reports via DSLReports that the channel was added as early as May 13th. However, I have not been able to seek a date directly from Verizon to cite.

Pimentelrodrigo (talk) 18:56, 19 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That is the reason for the original citation used in the article. That citation is a "tweet" by Michael Eaves, who is a presenter and anchor for Al Jazeera America. I'm still searching for an industry news report referencing the date that the channel went live. However, apparently, Verizon did not issue a press release announcing the addition of the channel. They just added it.

Of all the anecdotal "testimony" of the addition of the channel, the tweet by Mr. Eaves seemed to be the one most trustworthy.

If anyone can find reliable evidence of an earlier date, they should by all means change it.

Mikeylito (talk) 20:33, 19 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Why is this channel and Al Jazeera English blocked in the United States?

Why is this channel and Al Jazeera English blocked in the United States? Is this censorship by the government or have the corporate owners of the United States conspired against us so called free people?1archie99 (talk) 11:40, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Neither are blocked. Check your local listings, as they say. Blackguard 16:14, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am referring to the website1archie99 (talk) 20:55, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I did not place the url's that appear below this section. I tried to remove them but was not successful. One is a dead link. One is off topic. One is a homepage that leads nowhere. Please fix.1archie99 (talk) 13:06, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Why isn't any mention of the PED documentary?

For a while, that information was showed on Peyton Manning's BLP but now it's not. As AJA have taken the responsibility for the content after the public backlash and there's no further mention on Wikipedia about the topic, there should be mention of the documentary in this page. Leo Bonilla (talk) 19:38, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The PED Documentary is under Al Jazeera Investigates as it was their project. That is part of Al Jazeera English not AJAM. Mo2010 (Talk) 23:11, 27 Febuary 2016 (UTC)

RfC: Reactions to "The Dark Side: Secrets of the Sports Dopers" documentary

The consensus is that the Al Jazeera America#Reactions to "The Dark Side: Secrets of the Sports Dopers" documentary section is undue weight in the Al Jazeera America article and that the material should be moved into a separate article about the documentary per WP:SPINOUT.
Cunard (talk) 04:14, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

I send this request to be sure this section here is well written (WP:MOS) and not WP:UNDUE. Help will be appreciated. Leo Bonilla (talk) 04:42, 28 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. I see your concerns about both WP:MOS and WP:UNDUE. The material certainly needs a thorough copy-edit, but I see a larger problem with the amount of material included here compared to the other controversies. I also note that much of this material is duplicated over at the article on Al Jazeera English, where it also raises a question about undue weight. Given the large amount of press coverage this incident has gotten, why not simply create a separate article on it? Then, the material here (and at Al Jazeera English) could be cut back to a bare outline of the controversy, with full detail appearing in that separate article. I hope this is helpful. NewYorkActuary (talk) 23:43, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Alright. So your suggestion is make a page about the documentary itself. However, I can't see the potential article about the documentary accomplishing WP:NOTABILITY, so probably the best place for the article is in the AJA page; thought I'm not an expert judging these issues, that's why the WP:RFC is here. As you may see in Page History, I created the article and separated the documentary central topic into AJ English page and its reactions into AJA one, as re-directions in the WP:BLP of athletes involved can be showed. I gathered several citations to be responsible about a controversial topic in WP, but quantity is not always better than quality, so probably this section could have a cleanup. Leo Bonilla (talk) 03:03, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely a case of WP:UNDUE. No reason the documentary couldn't have its own article. Gamaliel (talk) 20:07, 2 April 2016 (UTC)s[reply]
If there's this much info on it, then, yeah, it probably should get its own article. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 05:33, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Certainly undue given the subsection currently takes about 23% of the total article. I'm not sure if the documentary itself merits a standalone article; it hasn't won any awards and most coverage seems to revolve around Manning et al, not the documentary itself. FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 12:34, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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References

^ https://twitter.com/michaeleaves/status/466626343887966209
^ Flint, Joe (December 3, 2013). "Time Warner Cable to start carrying Al Jazeera America this week". Los Angeles Times.
^ http://marketplace.theledger.com/pdf/321/LH034355.pdf

Another source

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/business/media/al-jazeera-network-in-turmoil-is-now-the-news.html?_r=0

Removing puff.

Today I am removing all the puff. If you want to put any back, kindly discuss here first. Thank you. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 20:51, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Merger proposal

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The result of this discussion was do not merge. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 13:05, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I propose that Current TV be merged into Al Jazeera America. Current TV became Al Jazeera America in 2013, so the content should be combined. As a result, although Wikipedia does not recommend pages over 100K bytes, this would be just over 100K, which would suffice for the channel's complete history. JE98 (talk) 13:14, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose It took over the same channel space but it is not the same channel. Same as Newsworld International which was the original channel is not the same as Current. Different owners and everything else. That maneuver is for channels that have re-branded under the same ownership. Mo2010 (talk) 05:52, 25 November 2018

Oppose Agree with the reasoning of the Mo2010 (talk). AJAM had fundamentally different programming compared to Current. Donkeypeep (talk) 23:32, 9 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] ttps://twitter.com/michaeleaves/status/466626343887966209

[2] Flint, Joe (December 3, 2013). "Time Warner Cable to start carrying Al Jazeera America this week". Los Angeles Times.

[3] ttp://marketplace.theledger.com/pdf/321/LH034355.pdf

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