"You read it here first. Al Jazeera International will launch in November," the U.K.'s Press Gazette's Adrian Monck writes. "And not November 2010 either. This November. Now it doesn't seem that long ago -- November 2004 in fact -- that AJI boss Nigel Parsons was announcing ambitious plans to launch in, erm, November 2005."

> Also: Monck says the technical problems aren't the only reason for the launch delays: "There's internal politics too." Parsons originally told reporters that the new channel would be "totally independent" of Al Jazeera's Arabic service. But "in a corporate coup earlier this year the independence evaporated. Parsons now reports to the Arabic channel's managing director, Waddah Khanfar, who has been promoted to oversee both services..."