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'''Fred Halliday''' (born 1946 in [[Dundalk]], [[Republic of Ireland]]) is a British academic and author specialising in the [[Middle East]] and [[international relations]], with particular reference to [[Iran]]. He is ICREA research professor at IBEI, the Barcelona Institute for International Studies and was formerly [[Montague Burton]] Professor of International Relations at the [[London School of Economics|London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)]].
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station_logo = [[Image:MyAtlTV.jpg|WATL logo]]|
station_slogan = Atlanta's Destination Station|
station_branding = MyAtlTV|
analog = 36 ([[ultra high frequency|UHF]])|
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affiliations = [[MyNetworkTV]]|
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airdate = [[September 13]], [[1954]]<br>(First incarnation)<br> [[September 8]], [[1969]]<br>(Second incarnation)<br> [[July 5]], [[1976]]<br>(Present incarnation)|
location = [[Atlanta, Georgia]]|
callsign_meaning = '''ATL'''anta (ATL is also the IATA Airport code for Hartsfield-Atlanta International Airport)|
former_callsigns = WQXI-TV (1954-1955)<br> WBMO-TV (1967)<br> WATL-TV (1st incarnation: 1969-1971)<br> WATL-TV (Present incarnation: 1976-1985)|
former_channel_numbers = |
owner = [[Gannett Company]]|
licensee = Pacific and Southern Company, Inc.|
sister_stations = [[WXIA-TV]]|
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== Biography ==
'''WATL''' channel 36 is a television station in [[Atlanta, Georgia]], [[United States|USA]] affiliated with [[MyNetworkTV]]. It's owned by the [[Gannett Company]] and is a sister station to [[WXIA-TV]] (channel 11), Atlanta's [[NBC]] affiliate. WATL's callsign refers to '''ATL'''anta, the station's [[city of license]]. Studios and offices are shared with WXIA and are located at One Monroe Place on the north end of Atlanta's Midtown area.


Fred Halliday studied at [[Queen's College, Oxford]], the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]], and the [[London School of Economics]]. Halliday wrote his PhD on South Yemen, and despite his prolific output it famously took him 17 years to complete and then publish (Sale, 2002). A one-time member of the [[International Marxist Group]] and writer for ''[[The Black Dwarf (Ali)|The Black Dwarf]]'' newspaper, since 1983 he has been lecturing at the [[London School of Economics]], and he remains one of Britain's leading experts on Middle Eastern politics.
==History==
Channel 36 began operation on [[September 13]], [[1954]] as '''WQXI-TV'''. The station, owned by UHF pioneer Robert Rounsaville, was one of about 150 UHF televisions to give the new high-band spectrum a try. The TV station, which had one camera, shared a house in the north Atlanta suburb of Buckhead with WQXI AM 790. The radio station constantly promoted its sister TV station in an effort to build an audience. But UHF converters were rare and programming (largely old movies, a Saturday evening Barn Dance and shots of the radio DJ spinning records) was nearly unwatchable. The station signed off after less than nine months on the air on [[1955|March 13, 1955]].


At the LSE, Halliday is Professor of International Relations, and a member of the [http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/human-rights Centre for the Study of Human Rights]. He is also a former Convener of the [http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/intrel/ Department of International Relations] of the LSE, and a former Chairman of the Research Committee of the [[Royal Institute of International Affairs]] (Chatham House). He sits on the advisory council of the [[Foreign Policy Centre]]. He is also associated with the [[Middle East Research and Information Project]] (MERIP), and appears regularly on ABC, BBC and CBC radio and TV broadcasts. He has lectured widely on superpower relations, development issues, the Middle East and international-relations theory. He is the author of numerous books, including ''The World at 2000'', ''World Politics'', and ''Two Hours That Shook the World''. Six of his books have been translated into Arabic. [http://www.globalagendamagazine.com/2005/fredhalliday.asp].
Channel 36 would remain dark until the station was relaunched on [[1969|September 8, 1969]] as '''WATL-TV''', under the ownership of [[U.S. Communications]], a broadcaster owned by [[Daniel H. Overmyer]]. Overmyer planned on signing on the station a few years earlier as '''WBMO-TV''' as one of the owned and operated stations of the new ''[[Overmyer Network]]'', which folded after a month on the air in [[1967]]. This incarnation of WATL lasted only until [[1971|March 10, 1971]] and channel 36 went dark again. For about a week before it signed off, the station ran :30 second announcements with a photograph of its studios on an [[art card]], announcing that it would soon cease operations, ending with the words "Thank You" on screen. WATL offered Japanese cartoons dubbed into English including ''[[Speed Racer]]'', ''[[Marine Boy]]'', ''[[King Kong]]'' and ''[[Space Giants]]''.


A talented linguist, Halliday speaks Persian, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Russian, Catalan, Portuguese and Arabic. He has widely travelled in the Middle East, and has met and interviewed several key Islamic fighters, rebels, and errant religious leaders and politicians over the years. Illness in 2001/2 forced a retreat from public life. He subsequently took up a professorship at a Spanish university. He is married to Professor [[Maxine Molyneux]] and they have one son, Alex. His brother [[Jon Halliday]] is also a historian.<ref>[ http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization/cold_war_2753.jsp ''A harvest of sorrow''</ref>
In a newspaper article reporting on the station's demise, it was reported that US Communications spent $1 million on programming the first year, including ''[[Lost in Space]]'' and a block of dinnertime game shows. Ted Turner's WTCG, which had been operating a bit longer, "didn't spend a million dollars on anything" and survived. WATL was also the first station in the country to run music videos all weekend, on a show called ''[[The Now Explosion]]''. Turner's first move after acquiring WTCG, the UHF station that would serve as the foundation of his media empire, was to steal ''The Now Explosion'' from WATL.


On [[July 5]], [[1976]], Don Kennedy of ''The Popeye Club'' (a long running Atlanta kids TV show on [[WSB-TV]]) returned channel 36 to the air for good. '''WATL-TV''' had a general entertainment format typical of non-network stations, such as public domain movies, financial news, low-budget local shows, [[television syndication|syndicated]] reruns and cartoons and a blend of [[CBS]], [[NBC]] and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] shows pre-empted from [[WAGA-TV]] (channel 5), WSB-TV (channel 2) and WXIA-TV, respectively. In a common practice among independent stations at the time, the station aired [[subscription television]] in the early evening from the late 1970s to about 1981.


==Key arguments==
ATL Acquisitions Group bought the station in the early 1980s. The subscription TV format moved to new sign-on WVEU (channel 69, now [[WUPA]]) in 1982. At that time, most daytime programming now came from the Financial News Network (now part of [[CNBC]]). In 1984, the station was sold again, this time to [[The Outlet Company|Outlet Communications]]. By that time, WATL was a general entertainment independent once again. WATL became one of the charter affiliates of the newly-launched [[Fox Broadcasting Company]] in October 1986.
*'''[[Globalization]] & Sovereignty''': Halliday argues that the future of globalisation relies on good interstate agreements - citing the success of the [[euro]] and the [[World Trade Organization]] (WTO). He cautions about the real threat of interstate war. One of the negative aspects of globalisation is a rise in inequality, ably exposed by Halliday's colleague at the LSE, Robert Wade. Halliday notes how more than 100 countries are effectively excluded from the global flow of investment. [http://www.fathom.com/feature/121971/ 2002].
* He castigates the US strongly for its inappropriate military interventions in the region, which he argues has actually recruited for al-Qaeda, a movement that began "from the Cold War, in particular the financing, training and arming of tens of thousands of jihadi militants by the US, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan for the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s". But more conservatively, he dislikes the anti-globalisation and anti-US movement, castigating it as holding "a set of vague, unthought out, uncosted and often dangerous utopian ideas about an alternative world". Lastly, contra some left-wing analysts, he argues the Soviet and Communist periods were detrimental for international relations and profoundly undemocratic. [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1401742,00.html]. Elsewhere, he has suggested the political left and radical Islam make strange bedfellows in the notional war on western capitalism, and points out that they were once openly hostile to each other [http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization/left_jihad_3886.jsp].
*In 2005, Halliday stated that there are perhaps 50 scholars in the UK with in depth knowledge of the Middle East, but that this number is rapidly declining. Furthermore, these scholars had warned against the war against Iraq in 2003, but they weren't consulted by the UK government. The situation in the US is much the same, but with more pressure against independent scholars.


==Publications==
The musical chairs of ownership continued in 1989, as Outlet sold WATL (along with [[WXIN (TV)|WXIN]] in [[Indianapolis]]) to Chase Broadcasting. In 1992, WATL and WXIN were included in Chase's merger with Renaissance Broadcasting. Less than a year later, WATL (along with new sister station [[KDVR]] in [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]]) was sold to Fox outright and channel 36 became a Fox owned-and-operated station. Fox was in the planning stages for a news operation at the station, and WATL had even gone as far as hiring a news director. However, on [[May 22]], [[1994]], [[New World Communications]] announced an affiliation agreement with Fox, months after the network won the broadcast rights to the [[National Football Conference]] of the [[National Football League]]. In this deal, most of New World's stations, including WAGA, would switch over to the Fox network. As a result, Fox cancelled the plans for a newscast on WATL and put the station up for sale.
===Books===
*Author:
:* ''Britain's First Muslim''. IB Tauris, 2008.
:*''100 Myths About the Middle East'', Saqi Books, 2005 ISBN 0-520-24720-5 (Hardback) / ISBN 0-520-24721-3 (Softback). Halliday's most recent book to be released in the US in September.
:*''The Middle East in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology'', Cambridge University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-521-59741-2.
:*''Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen, 1967–1987'', Cambridge University Press, 2002 ISBN 0-521-89164-7 | ISBN 978-0-521-89164-6 Softcover.
:*''Two Hours That Shook the World: September 11, 2001: Causes and Consequences'', Saqi Books, 2002 ISBN 0-86356-382-1.
:*''The World at 2000'', Palgrave McMillan, 2001 Softcover ISBN 0-333-94535-2 | Hardcover ISBN 0-333-94534-4.
:*''Nation and Religion in the Middle East'', Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000 and Saqi Books ISBN 0-86356-044-X.
:*''Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power'', Palgrave McMillan, 1999 ISBN 0-333-65328-9; Duke University Press, 1999 Softcover ISBN 0-8223-2464-4.
:*'''Islam and the Myth of Confrontation. Religion and Politics in the Middle East'', I.B. Tauris, 1996 ISBN 1-86064-868-1.
:*''Does Islamic fundamentalism pose a threat to the West?'' (6-page booklet), report for [[Institute for Jewish Policy Research]], 1996.
:*''From Potsdam to Perestroika. Conversations with Cold Warriors'', BBC Publications, London, 1995.
:*''Rethinking International Relations'', University of British Columbia Press, 1995 ISBN 0-7748-0508-0.
:*''Islam and the Myth of Confrontation: Religion and Politics in the Middle East'', I.B. Tauris, 1995 ISBN 1-86064-868-1; reprint 2004 Softcover ISBN 1-85043-959-1.
:*''Rethinking International Relations. Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge'', Palgrave McMillan, London, 1994 ISBN 0-333-58905-X.
:*''Arabs in Exile. Yemeni Migrants in Urban Britain'', I.B. Tauris, 1992..
:*''Cold War, Third World: Essays on Soviet-American Relations in the 1980's'', Radius Books, 1991 ISBN 0-09-174440-7.
:*''Revolutions and Foreign Policy. The Case of South Yemen'', Cambridge University Press, 1990.
:*''From Kabul to Managua: Soviet-American Relations in the 1980s'', Pantheon Books, 1989 ISBN 0-679-72667-5.
:*''European neutralism and Cold War politics'' (32-page booklet), Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, 1990 ISBN 0-9512760-1-8.
:*''Cold War, Third World. An Essay on Soviet-American Relations'', Radius, London, 1989.
:*''State and Ideology in the Middle East and Pakistan'', Macmillan Education, 1988 ISBN 0-333-38307-9.
:*''Beyond Irangate. The Reagan Doctrine and the Third World'', TransNational Issues 1, TNI, 1987.
:*''The Making of the Second Cold War'', Verso, London, 1983 ISBN 0-86091-752-5.
:*''The Ethiopian Revolution'', with Maxime Molyneux, Verso Books, London, 1981 Softcover ISBN 0-86091-741-X; 1982 Hardcover ISBN 0-8052-7121-X and ISBN 0-86091-043-1.
:*''Threat from the East: Soviet Policy from Afghanistan and Iran to the Horn of Africa'', Pelican Books Ltd, 1982 ISBN 0-14-022448-3.
:*''Soviet Policy in the Arc of Crisis'', TNI/IPS, June 1981 ISBN 0-89758-028-1.
:*''Mercenaries in the Persian Gulf. Counter-insurgency in Oman'', Russell Press, Nottingham, 1979.
:*''Iran: Dictatorship and Development'', Penguin Books Ltd, 1978 ISBN 0-14-022010-0.
:*''Mercenaries: 'Counter-insurgency' in the Gulf'', Spokesman Books, 1977 ISBN 0-85124-197-2.
:*''Arabia without Sultans'', Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1974 ISBN 0-86356-381-3; reprint 2002.
*Contributor:
:*"Islam is in danger. Authority, Rushdie and the Struggle for the Migrant Soul." In: Jochen Hippler and Andrea Leug (ed) ''The Next Threat. Western Perceptions of Islam'', TNI/Pluto Press, London, 1995.
:*"The Siren of Nationalism." In: Chester Hartman and Pedro Vilanova (ed) ''Paradigms Lost. The Post Cold War Era'', TNI/Pluto Press, London, 1992.
*Editor:
:*''Ideology in the Middle East and Pakistan'' with Hamza Alavi, Palgrave Macmillan, 1988 ISBN 0-333-38307-9.
*Foreword or Introduction:
:*''Why Muslims Rebel: Repression and Resistance in the Islamic World'' by Mohammed M. Hafez, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004 ISBN 1-58826-302-9.
:*''Iran Encountering Globalization: Problems and Prospects'' by Ali Mohammadi, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003 ISBN 0-415-30827-5.
:*''Central Asia After the Empire'' by Yuriy G. Kulchik, Andrey V. Fadin, Victor M. Sergeev, Pluto Press Ltd, 1996 ISBN 0-7453-1089-3.


===Book Reviews===
Finding itself about to lose Fox programming, WATL was then approached with an affiliation offer from CBS, which was losing WAGA as an affiliate. However WATL was not interested. At that point, it almost seemed likely that WATL would join the soon-to-launch [[UPN|United Paramount Network]] in early 1995. Rival station WGNX (channel 46, now [[WGCL-TV]]), then owned by [[Tribune Broadcasting]] was already slated to join [[the WB Television Network]] and had also turned CBS down, forcing CBS to make a deal to buy WVEU. Eventually, however, Tribune agreed to let WGNX join CBS, and WVEU became the UPN affiliate.
*[http://www.foreignaffairs.org/author/fred-halliday/index.html Book Reviews in ''Foreign Affairs''].


===Articles & Commentary===
Fox programming moved from WATL to WAGA on [[December 10]], [[1994]]. Not long after that, Fox subsequently sold the station to [[Qwest Broadcasting]], a company partially owned by legendary musician [[Quincy Jones]] and Tribune Broadcasting. (Fox would not be without an owned-and-operated station in Atlanta for long, as they bought out New World in late 1996.) Although it lost the Fox affiliation, WATL kept the ''[[Fox Kids]]'' programming, because WAGA was not interested in it. The station also affiliated with the WB in January 1995. (Since the sale to Qwest Broadcasting would not be finalized until [[December 14]] [[1995]], WATL became a WB affiliate owned by Fox, a condition which lasted nearly a year.) WATL continued to air ''Fox Kids'' until 2003, when it moved to WHOT (channel 34, now [[WUVG]]). In 1999, Tribune sold WGNX to the [[Meredith Corporation]] and purchased WATL outright in February 2000. Because Tribune owned a stake in the WB, WATL could have been considered to be a WB owned-and-operated station.
*[http://www.tni.org/archives/halliday/guns.htm "Kabul's Patriarchy With Guns,"] ''The Nation'', November 11, 1996.
*[http://www.merip.org/mer/mer213/213_hallliday.html "The Middle East at the Millennial Turn,"] ''Middle East Report'' 213, Winter 1999.
*[http://www.merip.org/mer/mer215/215_halliday.html "Letter from Kuwait. Iraq: A Decade of Devastation,"] ''Middle East Report'' 215, Summer 2000.
*[http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200001/cmselect/cmfaff/80/80ap14.htm Memorandum submitted by Professor Fred Halliday, London School of Economics], presented in the House of Commons, The United Kingdom Parliament, September 2000.
*[http://www.globalpolicy.org/wtc/terrorism/2510t.htm "Terrorism,"] ''Global Policy Forum'', May 2001.
*[http://www.tni.org/archives/halliday/island.htm "No Man is an Island,"] ''The Observer'', September 16, 2001.
*[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,556604,00.html "Beyond Bin Laden,"] ''The Observer'', September 23, 2001: "The future of Afghanistan itself should lie at the root of Western political thinking."
*[http://www.tni.org/archives/halliday/aftershocks.htm "Aftershocks That Will Eventually Shake Us All,"] ''The Observer'', November 25, 2001.
*[http://www.fathom.com/feature/121971/ "Globalisation and Sovereignty,"] ''Fathom.com'', undated 2002.
*[http://www.tni.org/archives/halliday/disorder.htm "New World, But the Same Old Disorder,"] ''Open Democracy'', March 10, 2002.
*[http://www.tni.org/archives/halliday/saddam.htm "Looking Back on Saddam Hussein,"] ''Open Democracy'', January 9, 2004.
*[http://www.tni.org/archives/halliday/terrorism.htm "Terrorism in Historical Perspective,"] ''Open Democracy'', April 22, 2004.
*[http://www.tni.org/archives/halliday/universalism.htm "The Crisis of Universalism: America and Radical Islam after 9/11,"] ''Open Democracy'', September 14, 2004: "In a trenchant analysis of the post-9/11 world, Fred Halliday documents the two-sided assault both by the United States and its fundamentalist enemies on universal principles. Can citizens of the world retrieve a confident, humane politics from beneath the rubble?"
*[http://www.tni.org/archives/halliday/triumph.htm "Bush’s Triumph: three Ends and a Beginning,"] ''Open Democracy'', November 17, 2004: "November 2004 represents a decisive moment in global as well as American politics that demands an urgent response from concerned citizens everywhere."
*[http://www.globalagendamagazine.com/2005/fredhalliday.asp "How to defeat terrorism,"] ''Global Agenda Magazine'', 2005: "To succeed, the war on terror must be fought on three levels – military, political and cultural. But what’s clear, says Fred Halliday, is that it has only just begun."
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5115437-107025,00.html "It's time to bin the past,"] ''The Observer'', January 30, 2005: "...we are still infected by Cold War ills: an arrogant West, shabby dictators, naive protests."
*[http://www.opendemocracy.org/debates/article-2-124-2374.jsp "Terrorism and its consequences: a tale of three cities,"] ''Open Democracy'', March 16, 2005.
*[http://www.riia.org/index.php?id=213&cid=295&type=meeting Audio Transcript: "Farewell to the experts - Western foreign policy towards the Middle East and the decline of area expertise,"] ''Chatham House'', March 22, 2005.
*[http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?act_id=17444&username=guest@tni.org&password=9999&publish=Y Islam and Europe: a debate in Amsterdam] 9 October 2007
==External links==
===Websites===
*[http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/human-rights/ Centre for the Study of Human Rights] website.


=== Biographical Data ===
On [[January 24]], [[2006]], [[CBS Corporation]] (which split from Viacom at the end of 2005) and [[Warner Bros.]] Entertainment (the Time Warner division that operates the WB) announced plans to dissolve WB and UPN, combining them to launch the [[CW Television Network]] in September 2006. As part of this joint venture, it was announced that CBS-owned WUPA will become the CW's Atlanta affiliate. It would not have been an upset had WATL been chosen instead, however. CW officials were on record as preferring the "strongest" WB and UPN stations, and Atlanta was one of the few markets where the WB and UPN stations were both relatively strong.
* Jonathan Sale, [http://www.independent.co.uk//eceRedirect?articleId=188430&pubId=55 "Passed/failed: Fred Halliday, Academic and Writer. 'My PhD thesis on South Yemen took me 17 years',"] ''The Independent'', May 15, 2002.


=== Interviews ===
WATL was originally slated to revert to independent status, but on [[May 15]], [[2006]], Tribune announced that WATL would be joining [[MyNetworkTV]], which was formed by [[Fox Television Stations Group|Fox Television Stations]] and its syndication division, [[Twentieth Television]].
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1107983 Interview], [[NPR]], October 13, 1994: " ...the possible threat of another military showdown in Iraq."
* Peter Snow, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/otr/intext/20011028_int_4.html Interview: "About attempts to construct an alternative, broad based government to replace the Taliban,"] BBC, October 28, 2001.
* John Humphreys, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/otr/intext/20011125_int_4.html Interview: "Will the talks in Germany on the future of Afghanistan lead to a genuinely broad based government?,"] BBC, November 25, 2001.
* Nadeem Azam, [http://www.angelfire.com/dc/mbooks/mythofconfrontation.html Interview: "Are Islam and the West at Loggerheads?,"] ''1lit.com'', undated 2001/2002.
* Jennifer Byrne, [http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s671079.htm Interview], ''ABC'' (Australia), April 9, 2002.
* ESRC Society Today, 24 May 2005 [http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/about/CI/CP/Our_Society_Today/Voices/halliday.aspx?ComponentId=9391&SourcePageId=15771#0]


=== Articles & Commentary ===
On [[June 5]], 2006, Tribune announced that they would sell WATL to the [[Gannett Company]], the owners of Atlanta's NBC affiliate WXIA-TV, for $180 million. The sale was completed on [[August 7]], 2006, giving Gannett the first television duopoly in Atlanta. ([http://www.gannett.com/news/pressrelease/2006/pr080706.htm]) Like most duopolies consisting of a "Big Four" affiliate and a minor network affiliate, WATL may take up responsibility as an alternate NBC affiliate by airing programs when WXIA cannot such as in a news-related emergency.
* Edward Russell-Walling, [http://web.archive.org/web/20020224041027/http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/opinion.asp?ArticleID=31792 "The web of bilateral relations spun anew,"] ''Gulf News'', November 8, 2001.
* Helena Cobban, [http://justworld.blogspot.com/2003_02_16_justworld_archive.html "Fred Halliday Misinformed?,"] ''Just World News'', February 2, 2003.
* Helena Cobban, [http://justworldnews.org/archives/000229.html "'Shock and Awe': I've Been,"] ''Just World News'', February 19, 2003.
* Mohammed Almezel, [http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=112509 "Full democracy not possible in Gulf region in foreseeable future, says British author,"] ''Gulf News'', January 3, 2004.


== References ==
Channel 36 introduced its new on-air branding, ''MyAtlTV'' on [[August 20]], 2006, ahead of the [[September 5]] debut of My Network TV (and about a month before the WB's final night on the air). Along with the new network, WATL now airs a WXIA-produced 10 p.m. weeknight newscast, titled ''11Alive News at 10'' (formerly ''My 11Alive News at 10'').
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== External links ==
Prior to the acquisition by Gannett, WATL's studios were located at One Monroe Place. When the station was acquired, WXIA management decided to move WXIA to the Monroe Place studios. During construction, WATL's studios were located with WXIA at 1611 West Peachtree Street, behind competeor [[WSB-TV]]
* [http://www.lse.ac.uk/people/f.halliday@lse.ac.uk/ Official home page]

== Digital Television ==

After the [[DTV transition|analog television shutdown and digital conversion]], scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009 <ref name="Analog to Digital">http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf</ref>, WATL will continue digital broadcasts on channel 25<ref name="FCCForm387">[http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101232001&formid=387&fac_num=22819 CDBS Print<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> using [[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]] to display WATL's [[virtual channel]] as 36.

==Station timeline==
*'''September 1954:''' channel 36 signs on as WQXI-TV
*'''1955:''' WQXI-TV signs off
*'''1969:''' channel 36 returns to the air, for the second time, as WATL-TV
*'''1971:''' WATL-TV signs off {{Fact|date=February 2007}}
*'''July 1976:''' channel 36 is reactivated, for the third time, retaining the WATL call letters
*'''October 1986:''' becomes a charter [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] network station, later adopted the branding ''"Fox 36"''
*'''December 1994:''' reverted back to independent status as ''"WATL 36"'' after WAGA-TV (channel 5) became Fox's new Atlanta affiliate
*'''January 1995:''' becomes a [[The WB Television Network|WB]] affiliate as ''"WB 36"''
*'''2004:''' adopts the branding ''"WATL, Atlanta's WB"''
*'''May 2006:''' WATL is announced as an affiliate of [[MyNetworkTV]]
*'''June 2006:''' WATL debuted [[The Tube (TV channel)|The Tube]] on its second digital subchannel (36.2)
*'''August 2006:''' Sale of WATL from Tribune to Gannett, announced in June is completed; adopts the branding "MyAtlTV"
*'''September 2006:''' WATL drops its WB affiliation and becomes a MyNetworkTV affiliate; sister station WXIA-TV begins producing a 10 p.m. newscast

==Transmission tower==
It is on the same [[tower]], north of [[Druid Hills]], with:
*[[WUVM-LP]] (4)
*[[W24AL]] (24)
*[[WUVG-TV]] (digital 48 only)
*[[WPCH-TV]] (digital 20, analog backup 17).

The tower also contains construction permits for:
*[[WIRE-CA]] (40)

[[FM]] stations on the same tower are: [[WWWQ]] (99.7, newly moved from the [[WPCH-TV]] main analog tower), [[WKHX-FM]] (101.5) and permits for [[WRFG-FM|WRFG]] (89.3) and as well as an application for a [[broadcast translator]] from [[Immanuel Broadcasing Network]] on 101.9.

Another tower about 120 meters (400 ft) to the west holds the existing [[WGCL-TV]] (46/19), [[WLTM-FM]] (94.9), and [[WKLS-FM]] (96.1), and applications for translators on 89.7 and 88.9 from [[WAY-FM Media Group]].

==Trivia==
{{trivia|date=December 2007}}
*WATL is one of a handful of stations to have been affiliated with both News Corporation-owned networks, Fox and MyNetworkTV.

*Channel 36 signed on as WQXI-TV in 1954. The callsign was used on channel 11 from 1968 to 1974. Today, channels 11 and 36 are owned by the same company, Gannett.

==External links==
*[http://www.myatltv.com/ WATL website]
*[http://www.11alive.com/ WXIA-TV Website]
*[http://www.mynetworktv.com/ My Network TV]
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Fred Halliday (born 1946 in Dundalk, Republic of Ireland) is a British academic and author specialising in the Middle East and international relations, with particular reference to Iran. He is ICREA research professor at IBEI, the Barcelona Institute for International Studies and was formerly Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Biography

Fred Halliday studied at Queen's College, Oxford, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and the London School of Economics. Halliday wrote his PhD on South Yemen, and despite his prolific output it famously took him 17 years to complete and then publish (Sale, 2002). A one-time member of the International Marxist Group and writer for The Black Dwarf newspaper, since 1983 he has been lecturing at the London School of Economics, and he remains one of Britain's leading experts on Middle Eastern politics.

At the LSE, Halliday is Professor of International Relations, and a member of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights. He is also a former Convener of the Department of International Relations of the LSE, and a former Chairman of the Research Committee of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). He sits on the advisory council of the Foreign Policy Centre. He is also associated with the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), and appears regularly on ABC, BBC and CBC radio and TV broadcasts. He has lectured widely on superpower relations, development issues, the Middle East and international-relations theory. He is the author of numerous books, including The World at 2000, World Politics, and Two Hours That Shook the World. Six of his books have been translated into Arabic. [1].

A talented linguist, Halliday speaks Persian, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Russian, Catalan, Portuguese and Arabic. He has widely travelled in the Middle East, and has met and interviewed several key Islamic fighters, rebels, and errant religious leaders and politicians over the years. Illness in 2001/2 forced a retreat from public life. He subsequently took up a professorship at a Spanish university. He is married to Professor Maxine Molyneux and they have one son, Alex. His brother Jon Halliday is also a historian.[1]


Key arguments

  • Globalization & Sovereignty: Halliday argues that the future of globalisation relies on good interstate agreements - citing the success of the euro and the World Trade Organization (WTO). He cautions about the real threat of interstate war. One of the negative aspects of globalisation is a rise in inequality, ably exposed by Halliday's colleague at the LSE, Robert Wade. Halliday notes how more than 100 countries are effectively excluded from the global flow of investment. 2002.
  • He castigates the US strongly for its inappropriate military interventions in the region, which he argues has actually recruited for al-Qaeda, a movement that began "from the Cold War, in particular the financing, training and arming of tens of thousands of jihadi militants by the US, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan for the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s". But more conservatively, he dislikes the anti-globalisation and anti-US movement, castigating it as holding "a set of vague, unthought out, uncosted and often dangerous utopian ideas about an alternative world". Lastly, contra some left-wing analysts, he argues the Soviet and Communist periods were detrimental for international relations and profoundly undemocratic. [2]. Elsewhere, he has suggested the political left and radical Islam make strange bedfellows in the notional war on western capitalism, and points out that they were once openly hostile to each other [3].
  • In 2005, Halliday stated that there are perhaps 50 scholars in the UK with in depth knowledge of the Middle East, but that this number is rapidly declining. Furthermore, these scholars had warned against the war against Iraq in 2003, but they weren't consulted by the UK government. The situation in the US is much the same, but with more pressure against independent scholars.

Publications

Books

  • Author:
  • Britain's First Muslim. IB Tauris, 2008.
  • 100 Myths About the Middle East, Saqi Books, 2005 ISBN 0-520-24720-5 (Hardback) / ISBN 0-520-24721-3 (Softback). Halliday's most recent book to be released in the US in September.
  • The Middle East in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology, Cambridge University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-521-59741-2.
  • Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen, 1967–1987, Cambridge University Press, 2002 ISBN 0-521-89164-7 | ISBN 978-0-521-89164-6 Softcover.
  • Two Hours That Shook the World: September 11, 2001: Causes and Consequences, Saqi Books, 2002 ISBN 0-86356-382-1.
  • The World at 2000, Palgrave McMillan, 2001 Softcover ISBN 0-333-94535-2 | Hardcover ISBN 0-333-94534-4.
  • Nation and Religion in the Middle East, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000 and Saqi Books ISBN 0-86356-044-X.
  • Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power, Palgrave McMillan, 1999 ISBN 0-333-65328-9; Duke University Press, 1999 Softcover ISBN 0-8223-2464-4.
  • 'Islam and the Myth of Confrontation. Religion and Politics in the Middle East, I.B. Tauris, 1996 ISBN 1-86064-868-1.
  • Does Islamic fundamentalism pose a threat to the West? (6-page booklet), report for Institute for Jewish Policy Research, 1996.
  • From Potsdam to Perestroika. Conversations with Cold Warriors, BBC Publications, London, 1995.
  • Rethinking International Relations, University of British Columbia Press, 1995 ISBN 0-7748-0508-0.
  • Islam and the Myth of Confrontation: Religion and Politics in the Middle East, I.B. Tauris, 1995 ISBN 1-86064-868-1; reprint 2004 Softcover ISBN 1-85043-959-1.
  • Rethinking International Relations. Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge, Palgrave McMillan, London, 1994 ISBN 0-333-58905-X.
  • Arabs in Exile. Yemeni Migrants in Urban Britain, I.B. Tauris, 1992..
  • Cold War, Third World: Essays on Soviet-American Relations in the 1980's, Radius Books, 1991 ISBN 0-09-174440-7.
  • Revolutions and Foreign Policy. The Case of South Yemen, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  • From Kabul to Managua: Soviet-American Relations in the 1980s, Pantheon Books, 1989 ISBN 0-679-72667-5.
  • European neutralism and Cold War politics (32-page booklet), Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, 1990 ISBN 0-9512760-1-8.
  • Cold War, Third World. An Essay on Soviet-American Relations, Radius, London, 1989.
  • State and Ideology in the Middle East and Pakistan, Macmillan Education, 1988 ISBN 0-333-38307-9.
  • Beyond Irangate. The Reagan Doctrine and the Third World, TransNational Issues 1, TNI, 1987.
  • The Making of the Second Cold War, Verso, London, 1983 ISBN 0-86091-752-5.
  • The Ethiopian Revolution, with Maxime Molyneux, Verso Books, London, 1981 Softcover ISBN 0-86091-741-X; 1982 Hardcover ISBN 0-8052-7121-X and ISBN 0-86091-043-1.
  • Threat from the East: Soviet Policy from Afghanistan and Iran to the Horn of Africa, Pelican Books Ltd, 1982 ISBN 0-14-022448-3.
  • Soviet Policy in the Arc of Crisis, TNI/IPS, June 1981 ISBN 0-89758-028-1.
  • Mercenaries in the Persian Gulf. Counter-insurgency in Oman, Russell Press, Nottingham, 1979.
  • Iran: Dictatorship and Development, Penguin Books Ltd, 1978 ISBN 0-14-022010-0.
  • Mercenaries: 'Counter-insurgency' in the Gulf, Spokesman Books, 1977 ISBN 0-85124-197-2.
  • Arabia without Sultans, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1974 ISBN 0-86356-381-3; reprint 2002.
  • Contributor:
  • "Islam is in danger. Authority, Rushdie and the Struggle for the Migrant Soul." In: Jochen Hippler and Andrea Leug (ed) The Next Threat. Western Perceptions of Islam, TNI/Pluto Press, London, 1995.
  • "The Siren of Nationalism." In: Chester Hartman and Pedro Vilanova (ed) Paradigms Lost. The Post Cold War Era, TNI/Pluto Press, London, 1992.
  • Editor:
  • Ideology in the Middle East and Pakistan with Hamza Alavi, Palgrave Macmillan, 1988 ISBN 0-333-38307-9.
  • Foreword or Introduction:
  • Why Muslims Rebel: Repression and Resistance in the Islamic World by Mohammed M. Hafez, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004 ISBN 1-58826-302-9.
  • Iran Encountering Globalization: Problems and Prospects by Ali Mohammadi, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003 ISBN 0-415-30827-5.
  • Central Asia After the Empire by Yuriy G. Kulchik, Andrey V. Fadin, Victor M. Sergeev, Pluto Press Ltd, 1996 ISBN 0-7453-1089-3.

Book Reviews

Articles & Commentary

External links

Websites

Biographical Data

Interviews

Articles & Commentary

References

  1. ^ [ http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization/cold_war_2753.jsp A harvest of sorrow

External links

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