Al Jazeera America launches on Time Warner Cable
Al Jazeera America is launching today on Time Warner Cable systems, the two companies announced this morning.
The deal will expand AJAM's distribution significantly, with TWC having around 11 million subscribers, including a substantial chunk of the New York and Los Angeles TV markets. When the switch is flipped, AJAM will be available in around 55 million homes, up from around 40 million when it launched in August.
"Now that we have some content under our belt, we are out there trying to let people know—with very specific examples—some of the great things we have done," Al Jazeera America president Kate O'Brian told Capital in a recent interview. "The name of the game is ‘get the eyeballs,’ so the Time Warner thing, where they are agreeing to put us on their tier, is just so fabulous that we are doing everything we can to make sure we get those eyeballs.”
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