Al Jazeera English Wrong Feed
mm112
Specialist - Level 1

Channel 481 in new jersey/new york has been al jazeera english for a year or two now but because of the recent change to current tv which became al jazeera america al jazeera english is now running the wrong feed. Channel 6 in the nj/ny area is RNN which has a lot of infomercials and a few news programs on it is the feed that is running on channel 481 which is WRNN Rise aka al jazeera english which is all news all the time until today. Verizon now carries two of the three al jazeera news networks which are al jazeera english and al jazeera america where as of right now they do not offer al jazeera arabic which appears to be a satellite tv exclusive deal. Verizon should also check other areas in the country where al jazeera english already exists to make sure that the feed is correct too like in maryland where the channel on their guide is at channel 457 to see if it really still is al jazeera english. If verizon is going to look into this then perhaps they should also change the logos and how the channels at 114 and at 1750 are programmed into the guide because they still indicate that they are current  tv which no longer exists. You do not want the channel to be like HLN channels 101 and 1542 which have the correct logo but right underneath the channel numbers they wrongly claim to be cnn. While you are looking at this change the logo for channel 19 back to me-tv and also look at channels 79 and 579 which claim to be msg when in fact they are msg 2. With basketball and hockey season right around the corner it is important to make the distinction between msg and msg 2 so people will know where the games will be when they go to see them. 579 by the way has no logo at all. Another thing that should be looked into is that channel 477 is running the schedule of a channel called soy latino tv when in fact the channel is another channel from that affiliate called tvc + latino. 

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Re: Al Jazeera English Wrong Feed
Caps09
Specialist - Level 2

AJ English is no longer available in the US. It would have been hard to get cable companies to launch AJ America with a free online feed and over the air channels showing a version of the the channel for free.

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Re: Al Jazeera English Wrong Feed - check ch114/Current TV
jjhc
Enthusiast - Level 1

Al-Jazeera America is now on channel 114 (the old Current TV channel), at least in NJ. The GEMStar/TVGuide program info data has not been updated for WRNN, by the look of it (this is upstream from Verizon, so not even I can blame them for it), but it is accurate on the new channel.

Zero out of ten to Verizon for the complete lack of notification of this change.

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Re: Al Jazeera English Wrong Feed
Sanjay2
Enthusiast - Level 3

Hi everyone,

WRNN Second feed which was aljazeera in english, according to the program manager, they have signed a new deal to bring FRANCE 24 to that feed... So in the upcoming days we shall see France 24 occupying that slot....

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