Radio / Television News

The Cartt.ca Interview: Slava Levin is going over the top to get to ethnic Canadians

WHILE WE WAIT for the CRTC to decide whether or not Al Jazeera English can be distributed in Canada by cable, satellite and telco TV companies, I already have it in my office.Actually, I have both the English and Arabic versions, right now, on my television. (No Canadian BDU offers the Arabic version because even though it’s on the eligible satellite list, the regs around it say that BDUs must employ Arabic language censors to monitor it 24/7, if they want to launch.)And yet, here they both are, in standard definition, full-screen quality, on my 30-inch LCD television thanks to...