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Start-Up Television Venture Is Aiming Its Programming at American Muslims

On many nights in the living rooms of Muslim families across the United States, parents and grandparents who immigrated here are tuned in to Arabic television stations like Al Jazeera or PTV, the state-run Pakistan Television, while in another room their Americanized, English-speaking children are watching "The Apprentice" or CNN. Tomorrow, broadcasts of Bridges TV, an English-language network with programming aimed at American Muslims, will begin.

Read the whole story at The New York Times, November 29, 2004 »

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