Al Jazeera America Is Already in a Carriage Dispute With AT&T

Network announces lawsuit after seven hours on the air

That was quick: even before Al Jazeera America made it to the airwaves on Tuesday, it was already in the middle of its first carriage dispute. On its first day of service, the network filed a lawsuit against AT&T, which dropped AJAM from its U-Verse service on Monday at 11:59. The network went live at 3 p.m. yesterday on the rest of its affiliates. As of Friday, Al Jazeera America was available in 48 million households; U-Verse constituted about 5 million of those.

“Al Jazeera America made a decision to seek judicial intervention in its dispute with AT&T," an AJAM representative said in a written statement.

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