English Al-Jazeera On Again, Off Again Launch Date

With a staff nearing 120 in the new Washington, DC, bureau, Al-Jazeera International, aka AJI, originally planned its first worldwide broadcast last fall with the intention of competing against the likes of BBC, CNN and Fox.

Then we heard it would be April. No, wait a minute, sometime this month or later this summer? Or…how about no earlier than September?

And so it goes with the new English language news network run by the controversial Arab-language Al-Jazeera news network.

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