Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

I think that renaming ITV1 back to ITV is a stupid idea too.



My friend no longer works for DirecTV (sorry, I got the name wrong), so no longer has any direct influence there.

Shareholders, however, are calling for it to be taken off the platform by putting pressure on the directors.

There are reports on the Current TV facebook page that Al Jazeera celebrated 9/11 and have broadcast footage of American troops being beheaded and marines being burnt to death.

If this is true, I think that this channel should be proscribed in this country.

It is believed that the Saudi royal family paid for Al Jazeera to go onto satellite, freeview and the channels recent additions to the Virgin Media platform.

Ultimately, no doubt, paid for by us all from their excessive oil profits.

I have asked a contact if we could see Al Jazeera coming off VM shortly.

I was told that this was doubtful, as they have paid to be there, it has not changed ownership, so VM cannot use that as a get out clause with the carriage agreement and many customers were actually asking for this channel.