The lefty non-com station group known for its eternal internal
squabbles (right now, its SF market flagship KPFA is in a dither over
firings of its morning drive show hosts and producer and a war between
the CWA union and lunatic fringe radicals who want the station to be
100% volunteer, calling the union personnel "Paul Wellstone
Democrats") will begin airing the soundtrack of a news hour from the
TV net Al Jazeera English over the next month or so, starting next
week at KPFA, WBAI in NY and KPFT in Houston (and planning to offer
the program to other stations, such as it does for "Democracy Now!"):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/06/AR2010120606561.html

AJE has tried to get cable carriage in the U.S., but because of the
reputation of its Arabic language sister channel has largely failed--
some stations pick up odd hours from the net and MHz Networks'
WorldView turnkey digital channel carried by many PTV stations airs
AJE programming as part of its lineup of English-language newscasts
from around the world and other foreign programming.

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