http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/sep/13/091304462.html
Islamic TV Network Widens Reach in U.S. By SARAH KARUSH ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT (AP) - Dissatisfaction with media coverage following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks prompted banker Mo Hassan to quit his job to create a television channel aimed at fostering understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims. Five years after 9/11, the nation's largest cable operator announced Tuesday that Hassan's Bridges TV is now part of its basic digital package in Michigan, giving Bridges hundreds of thousands of potential new viewers. Comcast Corp. previously offered the 24-hour English-language channel on a subscription basis. But Bridges - which features lifestyle and cultural programming, as well as news and interfaith dialogue shows - has recently shifted away from that model in order to reach more non-Muslims. "We're trying to create a dialogue between 300 million Americans and 1 billion Muslims worldwide," Hassan said at a news conference at the Muslim Center in Detroit. With the Comcast announcement, the potential audience for Buffalo, N.Y.-based Bridges is approaching 2 million, Hassan said. The channel is carried by several other cable providers in the U.S. and Canada. Comcast has about 1.4 million customers in Michigan, spokesman Jerome Espy said. Most of those customers are in southeastern Michigan, the home of one of the largest Arab American communities in the country. While the company won't say exactly how many Michigan customers are digital subscribers who will be able to see Bridges, about half of Comcast's customers nationwide get digital service, Espy said. He said Comcast might roll out Bridges in other parts of the country, depending on the response in Michigan. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
