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Originally Posted by KiraYamatoFan
If Al Jazeera is trying tomake a breakthrough on the news department of US television, I wonder how and why the BBC has not made a significant one yet after all those years. The BBC offers a lot of good news coverage overall to me.
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The BBC gets several hours a day on US television and radio via public broadcasting stations (depending on your local PBS quality). They have a cable channel I believe (of no use to people who don't buy cable, of course). My recent annoyance with the American feeds of BBC, Deutsche Welke, or European Journal is that they've started hiring American announcers and frankly, it isn't just the accent - the average clue meter and professionalism takes a hit (dark glares reserved for US communication curricula). I suppose they think Americans aren't comfortable with anything but bleached blondes (either sex) and Midwest accents.
NHK News also has an American feed but they have trouble getting PBS stations to air them properly.