"I’ve been monitoring the new channel for several months over the Internet, paying $6 a month to watch a video stream supplied by Real Networks. And I am convinced it is the most important English-language cable channel to come along since Fox News. It’s everything our cable news isn’t: global, meaty, consequential and compelling in the best sense of the word." Aaron Barnhart, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2007. "The U.S. is one of the few countries that, for the most part, doesn't carry the 24-hour BBC World news channel, which is available in 235 million households worldwide." Barnhart, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2007. "It’s not impossible to see Al Jazeera English on TV in our town. Walk into the Jerusalem Bakery on Westport Road most days and the flat screen in the dining area will likely be tuned to the channel. Owner Farid Azzeh pulls it in from Globecast, a specialty satellite-TV maker. It’s free once you buy the Globecast dish (about $200)." Barnhart, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2007. Samah El Shahat, development economist who now works for Aljazeera English: "I wanted a channel that was rooted in its sovereign audience. I found that very fundamental, and I also wanted a channel that wanted to challenge the mainstream." ArabianBusiness.com, 1 July 2007. Dave Marash, Aljazeera English Washington anchor: "We want to do fewer stories per half hour. Our 24-hour tempo is already radically slower than any of the other 24-hour news networks." Post-Journal (Jamestown NY), 30 June 2007.