Al Jazeera America is trying to avoid unsealing a lawsuit it filed last year accusing AT&T of improperly keeping the news channel off AT&T’s U-verse lineup. Al Jazeera got into the US cable market by acquiring Al Gore’s Current TV. But AT&T refused to give space to the U.S. version of the Qatar-based channel on U-verse, although it had carried Current TV.
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Al Jazeera America is trying to avoid unsealing a lawsuit it filed last year accusing AT&T of improperly keeping the news channel off AT&T’s U-verse lineup. Al Jazeera got into the US cable market by acquiring Al Gore’s Current TV. But AT&T refused to give space to the U.S. version of the Qatar-based channel on U-verse, although it had carried Current TV.
