Al Jazeera English & Al Jazeera America

She is "The Overexposed Stock Image Model", and she is definitely everywhere. haha.

Anyways... Anybody checked Livestation lately?

Kamahl Santamaria is now in the Philippines for AJE. It's quite rare for AJE to send senior presenters out of the Doha base at all. They tend to have senior reporters and correspondents out on location for big stories. However, I guess the Philippines story is considered major, hence he's there.

Excellent, I tried that not expecting it to be geo-locked.... but it worked!

But I must admit, its kinda weird that Americans have to pay for something that can be watched by everyone else in the world for free... and in 16:9 aspect ratio.

Do they have to pay for it? I know it's mainly on cable but it won't be something they pay extra for. The same online, that's free isn't it?

AJE used to appear on terrestrial in a couple of markets, Washington DC being one. I assume they changed to AJ US

AIUI most US cable companies provide very few channels without subscription (usually just rebroadcasts of local terrestrial services). Even these are now increasingly being encrypted and require a box or cable card to be rented (though no subscription paid for the actual channels)

I suspect AJA is included in "Basic cable" - which is a bit like the basic Sky Entertainment pack over here - lots of non-premium channels for a monthly subscription which is significant, but still a lot less than if you include premium movies and sport.

Could be that some local stations sold off some of their spare capacity (used for sub-channels - at the expense of decent picture quality on their main channel as they are saddled with MPEG2 for HD not MPEG4/H264) to AJ to carry AJE/AJA terrestrially.

I believe I saw a video on YouTube a few months ago from local TV station in the United States that they cannot anymore acquire programming from Al Jazeera English because of the launch of AJAM. I believe the New York or Washington DC terrestrial station stopped carrying Al Jazeera before August 20.

In regards to that station, it was WRNN in New York City. And AJA may not be on basic cable, but on extended cable service, similar to BBC World News.

Yes, that is what they did, using 'virtual channels'

Just looked it up and it was done by an organisation called Mhz Networks and their network Mhz Worldview. As mentioned, yes the AJE carriage finished in August

US cable companies tend to offer most English non-premium channels in different tiers. The names of these tiers differ between providers, but the first tier is basically what you get with your cable connection and includes the local stations, C-SPAN and perhaps some shopping or religious channels. Most of the well known basic cable channels are in the second tier, and then there's a third tier which includes spin-offs and lesser known channels.

Typically, the second tier includes legacy channels established in the days before digital cable and the third tier includes those established with the introduction of digital cable. If a provider carries Al Jazeera America or BBC World News, they are usually included in the third tier. My understanding is that you have to be prepared to pay $50 or more per month if you want to watch AJA.

John Seigenthaler is on extended duty, anchoring the Mandela coverage for Al Jazeera America...
but I don't expect "America Tonight" or "Consider This" be pre-empted.

EDIT: The Stream on AJAM has now been pre-empted.

Al Jazeera America is officially available on Time Warner Cable & Brighthouse Cable system starting today, and it will be available in both Standard & High-definition format.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2013/12/8537044/al-jazeera-america-launches-time-warner-cable-today