A clutch of new deals in Europe and Asia has propelled Al Jazeera English through the 110 million-subscriber level.
New homes have been added through Germany’s Kabel BW, which takes both Arabic and English news channels. In Spain both channels have been added to 900,000 homes on the ONO cablenet.
Viasat’s Baltic DTH platform has recently taken the English channel into the Ukraine in addition to existing distribution in Estonia Latvia and Lithuania. In Portugal, around 100,000 homes have been added on Portugal Telecom’s Meo DTH service and further distribution secured on the country’s second largest cable operator Cabovisao. The channel has also launched with T-Kábel in Hungary and the KPN IPTV network in The Netherlands.
Al Jazeera’s Arabic channel has added 800,000 homes in France following an agreement with France Telecom’s Orange IPTV Network.
Al Jazeera is also counting 1.6 million homes in Germany, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland and Norway from the controversial over the top TV service Zattoo.
