I don’t know how I missed this during this whole Burlington Telecom debate, but RETN — Channel 16 to Comcast subscribers in the Burlington area — regularly airs Al Jazeera English programming.

According to their programming schedule, on Tuesday, June 10, Al Jazeera programming airs at 5 a.m., 7:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.

RETN programming associate Drew Frazier just emailed me to confirm that the channel will be doing a full-length interview this week with Managing Director of Al Jazeera English Tony Burman and correspondent Josh Rushing, which will be available soon on TV and on their website.

This article appears in Jun 11-17, 2008.

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