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Comcast Minneapolis adds Al Jazeera English (for a few minutes)

By David Brauer | 02/02/11

Not precisely sure when this happened, or whether it has happened on other regional cable systems, but if you want to check out Al Jazeera English's Egypt coverage on your TV, Comcast Minneapolis has put the network on Channel 76.

Not sure how permanent the addition is, and will try to find out. [UPDATE: For a few minutes Wednesday morning, it turns out. Al Jazeera English appeared on the Worldview Channel 76, but now they're showing me something from Japan. Any chance you can flip the switch back and leave it there, folks? See comments for more details.]

If you've seen AJE pop up on other systems, please let us know in the comments. If you happen to have a Roku box, they're streaming it now, too.

Of course, you can view Al Jazeera's coverage on your computer here, though I'm getting a "webpage not available" here.

By the way, kudos to the Star Tribune's John Rash for focusing on Al Jazeera's domestic-TV unavailability.

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Comments (5)

Submitted by pam colby on February 2, 2011 - 10:42am.

The Minneapolis Public Schools programs that channel. It is a non-commercial channel called Worldview and they are currently playing Al Jazeera Live on Comcast in Minneapolis channel 76!

Pam Colby
Executive Director
MTN

Submitted by Sam Bergman on February 2, 2011 - 10:58am.

David, 76 in Minneapolis is a channel Comcast fills with MHz Worlview, a public affairs channel out of DC that mixes news programming from networks all over the world, from Deutsche Welle to NHK to, yes, Al Jazeera. Their schedule is here: http://www.mhznetworks.org/mhzworldview/programming/

Submitted by Jeff Strate on February 2, 2011 - 3:44pm.

Al Jazeera English has provided the most immediate and accurate live stream coverage of the events in Egypt via its website. The others, especially CNN, are cold toast. Al Jazeera English has done so even after Egyptian government officials "shut down" local access to the internet.

As violence ramps up in Cairo, it is expected that attempts to unplug Al Jazeera will be made. But the calls for change across North Africa and the Middle East are being supported by an infrastructure of cagey, young on-line communication operatives that Al Jazeera, by its own admission, has tapped into as needed. Consider Christine Hauser's article on the adaptability of Egyptian social media users in the New York Times yesterday. Here's the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/world/middleeast/02twitter.html?ref=mi...

Submitted by Hal Sanders on February 2, 2011 - 5:11pm.

Mr. Strate: How are you in a position to proclaim Al Jazeera provides the most accurate live coverage?

Submitted by Patrick Steele on February 4, 2011 - 8:59am.

AJE's coverage on things that should be out of its wheelhouse, like United States politics, is great. I hope it becomes a fixture in our social landscape, though I'm not holding my breath.