America, however, is not alone in challenging Al Jazeera head on. The BBC, which briefly ran its own Arabic language news station in the mid-1990's - before closing it down because its Saudi funders were unhappy with its reporting - recently announced that it will re-launch an Arabic language news satellite station.
尽管如此，美国并不是唯一向半岛电视台发出挑战的国家。20世纪90年代中期短暂开播过阿拉伯语新闻节目的英国广播公司，不久前宣布将重新开办阿拉伯语新闻卫星频道。前者由于其沙特出资者不满意它的报导，没坚持多久就遭到停播的厄运。