Al Jazeera will launch in April, the latest, a news channel that will cover the Balkans. The new television network aims at exceed the audiences of CNN and implement new professional standars in an area still divided by inter-ethnic conflicts.

BalkanInsight.com announced that most probably the new channel will be launched in April or March even though an official date has not been yet announced. Al Jazeera will offer cutting edge technology that will exceed by far the current technology used by local televisions.

The company aims at exchanging information between the Balkan countries but the news from the region will have an international audience. The investment will amount to about 10 million euro this year alone. The countries in which Al Jazeera will air are: Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Servia, Slovenia and Kosovo.