Al-Jazeera in talks to sign Frost

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Al-Jazeera in talks to sign Frost

Tara Conlan
Thursday August 11, 2005

Arabic satellite television news channel al-Jazeera is in talks to sign up veteran broadcaster Sir David Frost.

The broadcaster is keen to boost its profile as it gears up for the launch of its global channel, al-Jazeera International, next year.

Since announcing plans to open a London office and launch an English-language service, al-Jazeera has signed up a number of staff from the BBC, ITV and Sky to join the station.

It is believed that within the last year it also tried an approach to ITV star Sir Trevor McDonald, but failed.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1547089,00.html


PHEW! so long as it's not Victoria 'Posh Spice' Beckham....

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1. Brilliant

Now if they can only coax Alistair Cooke back from...oops.