10-27-2005, 01:45 AM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0...1600830,00.html
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· Arabic channel to launch in the west in March
· Corporation will make cuts to fund rival service
Owen Gibson, media correspondent
Wednesday October 26, 2005
The Guardian
In one corner stands the BBC World Service, the corporation's venerable 70-year-old voice to the world backed by £239m of taxpayers' money. In the other the upstart satellite TV channel al-Jazeera, barely a decade old, bankrolled from the bottomless reserves of the emir of Qatar.
The two broadcasters are going head to head in a battle for control of the new frontier for global TV - the Middle East. While al-Jazeera is finalising plans to launch an English language channel (star presenter: Sir David Frost), the BBC yesterday unveiled its counter-attack: a new £19m-a-year channel to be broadcast to the region in Arabic.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->BBC goes head-to-head with al-Jazeera
· Arabic channel to launch in the west in March
· Corporation will make cuts to fund rival service
Owen Gibson, media correspondent
Wednesday October 26, 2005
The Guardian
In one corner stands the BBC World Service, the corporation's venerable 70-year-old voice to the world backed by £239m of taxpayers' money. In the other the upstart satellite TV channel al-Jazeera, barely a decade old, bankrolled from the bottomless reserves of the emir of Qatar.
The two broadcasters are going head to head in a battle for control of the new frontier for global TV - the Middle East. While al-Jazeera is finalising plans to launch an English language channel (star presenter: Sir David Frost), the BBC yesterday unveiled its counter-attack: a new £19m-a-year channel to be broadcast to the region in Arabic.
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