Luther Masingill is shown being interviewed by “America Tonight” reporter Adam May of the Al Jazeera America network.ON LOCAL TV
• Al Jazeera America is available locally on Chattanooga Comcast channel 107 and EPBFI channel 149.
If this keeps up, Luther Masingill might just one day be famous.
“Oh, I don’t know about that,” the iconic Chattanooga radio personality said Tuesday afternoon as he was being followed around town by a crew from Al Jazeera America, the American basic cable and satellite news television channel that is owned by Qatar-based Al Jazeera Media Network. The network originally launched in 1991 and gained international attention by covering the war in Afghanistan live and for its uncensored, and often unflinching, coverage of world events.
Al Jazeera America launched in January of this year, and “America Tonight” debuted shortly afterward. It airs weeknights at 9, and has done stories on sex crimes on campuses, rape and the dark side of the Internet.
The three-man “America Tonight” crew has been in town since Sunday to film footage of Masingill for a segment to be broadcast in late November. Longtime on-air partner and author of “My Life With Luther” James Howard said a network producer from “America Tonight” contacted him about doing the segment on Masingill.