Is Al-Jazeera on basic cable? — chicagotribune.com
Dammit. No Euro 2008 and no Ghida Fakhry. Why the hell can’t we get Al Jazeera even on satellite? Xenophobic fucks.
The finale to Germany’s 3-2 win over Turkey in the European Championship semifinal was a thriller, but few in a worldwide TV audience saw it as violent thunderstorms swept across Austria and knocked out power at the International Broadcast Center in Vienna, from where images of the match were beamed around the world.
With the match delicately poised at 1-1 in the second half at St. Jakob Park in the Swiss city of Basel, screens around the world flickered and went blank. Internet coverage also was hit by the blackout. The only broadcasters whose signal escaped the interruption were Al-Jazeera and Swiss public TV company SRG in Zurich, said UEFA, which couldn’t immediately explain why those feeds were unaffected.
As the storm raged over Vienna, the images came and went several times in the final minutes. Viewers missed Turkey’s tying goal in the 86th minute but did see Germany eliminate Turkey with a goal in the last minute of regulation time.
I kid, of course.
Somewhat.
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