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Thursday, August 22, 2013
Al Jazeera America launches, but AT&T won’t carry network Lee Thompson Young
Reuters
The decision by AT&T’s U-verse pay-TV service stemmed from a contract dispute over terms to carry New cable network Al Jazeera America introduced itself to the new network, AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said. viewers on Tuesday with reports on political strife in Egypt and Al Jazeera responded by suing AT&T for breach of the impact of climate change on U.S. cities, shortly after a major contract in Delaware Chancery Court. Globally, Al Jazeera is seen in more than 260 milpay TV distributor declined to carry the channel. lion homes in 130 countries. But the new U.S. channel funded by the emir of Qatar has so far had difficulty getting distributors, in part because Al Jazeera was perceived by some as being anti-American during the Iraq war. Before AT&T’s announcement, Al Jazeera America said it would be available in more than 40 million homes, about 40 percent of U.S. pay TV households and roughly half the reach of Time Warner Inc’s CNN. U-verse was launched in 2006 and had 5 million video customers at the end of June in markets such as Texas and California. “We could not reach an agreement with the owner that we believed provided value for our customers and our business,” AT&T spokesman Siegel said. Al Jazeera America said in a statement AT&T had “unilaterally” deleted the network and “pre-
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Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Deepens, China Expresses “Shock”
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sented us with circumstances that were untenable - an affiliate that has willfully and knowingly breached its contractual obligations.” The network said it had “no choice” but to file a lawsuit over the matter. Defining the new channel’s mission clearly will be crucial for Al Jazeera to gain a foothold in the United States, according to advertisers, executives and industry experts. In its first hour at midafternoon, Al Jazeera pledged to cover “issues that matter to America and the world beyond.” Anchors said they would provide in-depth coverage of stories ignored by other media outlets, with bureaus in cities they considered underserved such as Nashville and Detroit. Al Jazeera America hired ABC news veteran Kate O’Brian to be its president and hired on-air talent like CNN veterans Ali Velshi and Soledad O’Brien.
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Thursday, August 22, 2013
Real Sociedad And Zenit Win, Milan Held By PSV
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Syrian opposition claims ‘poisonous gas’ attack
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Interim Al Jazeera America CEO Ehab Al Shihabi speaks during an interview at the Al Jazeera newsroom in New York, August 20, 2013.
Katy Perry to close iTunes Festival in London Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — This year’s iTunes Festival is ending with a roar, to be delivered by Katy Perry. The pop superstar, whose new single “Roar” is climbing the charts, will be the final act of the month-long London festival. It kicks off Sept. 1 with another diva, Lady Gaga, and will feature Robin Thicke, Elton John, Justin Timberlake, John Legend, Kendrick Lamar and the Kings of Leon, among others. Perry’s “Roar” is her bestselling single on iTunes with more 544,000 copies sold domestically alone, according to Apple. Perry said she’s pumped to be performing and noted that Icona Pop, who have the hit “I Love It,” will be her opening act. Rapper Iggy Azalea will also appear. The annual festival will be streamed on iTunes festival app and available for download.
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Bali tourism promotion unfocused
ANTARA FOTO/Nyoman Budhiana
Balinese are conducting Ngaben ceremony recently in Ubud, Gianyar Regency. This kind of ceremony attracted many tourists because its uniqueness. Unfortunately, effort to promote destination in Bali becomes ineffective and inefficient because fragmented interests of some group not for people of Bali. Bali Post
DENPASAR - The promotion of Bali tourism is increasingly unfocused. The effort to offer the destinations existing on the island all this time was ineffective and inefficient due to the fragmented interests of some groups. Ironically, the impact is feel by people that are increasingly marginalized.
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FILE - This July 28, 2013 file photo shows singer Katy Perry at the world premiere of “The Smurfs 2” in Los Angeles.
Chairman of the Bali Regional Tourism Promotion Board (BPPD), Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati, said the inequality of promotion caused by the funding flow that tended to grow certain areas would continue to erode the integrity of the Bali Island. Even recently, there was a gap between the promotion strategies made by private and government sector that made the focus
of target market split. “Tourism should side with Balinese people and this will become the key to the whole tourism promotion activities where the BPPD Bali will become the key coordinator that integrates them effectively and efficiently,” said the man familiarly called Tjok Ace. According to him, with the establishment of the BPPD Bali,
the promotional activities would be more on target. Under the existing law, the BPPD Bali would formulate the strategic plan of the Bali Tourism Promotion with a projected cost of IDR 38 billion from the Bali regional budget and IDR 21 billion from the private sector. “There must be a single vision in developing the Bali tourism namely with the cultural tourism. When we can highlight the features of Balinese culture, it will increasingly attract tourists. We cannot equate the development of tourism in Bali to Singapore, for example. By looking at the current development, we are also concerned about a shift,” he said. He explained that in the develop-
ment of coastal and marine tourism in Bali, other than offering the activities like snorkeling and diving, it should also be preserved the culture like melasti or purificatory rite to sanctified effigies or objects and other cultural activities related to nature that so far also became the tourist objects. “There must be something different from what Bali highlights and do not even precisely duplicate the tourist attraction of the other region. The uniqueness must be promoted, do not make duplicate tourism. For example, Karangasem wants to duplicate the tourism growing in Badung by building the same facilities,” he explained.
He said the development of tourism duplicating the existing destinations would have a negative impact on the length of stay of tourists and the decline in the purchasing power of tourists because the development of tourism only occurred in one region that ultimately resulted in the income gap of the sector. “The gap in tourism sector among the counties in Bali is very wide, so the region generating high revenues should be able to provide subsidies. With the formation of the BPPD Bali, the promotional activities are expected to be more on target which can ultimately lead to equity,” he said. (kmb27)