Al Jazeera America filed a lawsuit against AT&T...
Al Jazeera America filed a lawsuit against AT&T Services for deleting the channel from its U-verse lineup Tuesday, the day of the channel’s premiere, Al Jazeera said in a news release Wednesday. “Unfortunately AT&T’s decision to unilaterally delete Al Jazeera…
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America presented us with circumstances that were untenable -- an affiliate that has willfully and knowingly breached its contractual obligations,” said the release. “As a result of our inability to come to terms on a new agreement and due to certain breaches by Al Jazeera of the existing agreement, we have decided not to carry Current TV on U-verse,” an AT&T spokesman told us in an email, referring to the U.S. network purchased by Al Jazeera earlier this year (CD Jan 4 p13). The lawsuit, filed in Delaware Chancery Court, accuses AT&T of breach of contract, and asks for a declaratory judgment against the carrier, according to Al-Jazeera. “We had no choice but to take this action and to enforce Al Jazeera America’s rights under its agreement with AT&T -- and to compel AT&T to do the right thing,” said the release.