Al Jazeera Documentary Channel

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Al Jazeera Documentary Channel
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Launched 1 January 2007
Owned by Al Jazeera
Sister channel(s) Al Jazeera (Arabic)
Al Jazeera English
Website Al Jazeera Documentary Channel

Al Jazeera Documentary Channel (Arabic: الجزيرة الوثائقية‎) is an Arabic language documentary channel and a branch of the Al Jazeera network. It was launched at 12:00 GMT on 1 January 2007. It aims to provide viewers an immense amount of high quality documentary films. These films are expected to cover and analyze a breadth of topics including historical, scientific, political, artistic, and travel issues.

The channel claims that it will produce 15% of broadcast material in-house, while obtaining the rest from Arab and global producers.

The Manager of Al Jazeera Documentary Channel is Ahmed Mahfoudh.

Contents

[edit] Programming

Al Jazeera Documentary Channel concentrates on presenting documentaries from the following five fields:[1]

  • History / Archaeology
  • News / Current Affairs / Politics
  • Discovery / Exploration / Ethnology
  • Science / Technology
  • Health / Wellness

[edit] Frequencies

Satellite Nilesat
7.0°W
Hotbird
13°E
Badr 4 Arabsat
26.0°E
Frequency
12360 MHZ 12111 MHZ 12034 MHz
Polarization
Horizontal Vertical Horizontal
Symbol Rate
27500 27500 27500
Fec
¾ ¾ ¾

[edit] References

  1. ^ Al Jazeera English - Documentary - Genres

[edit] External links

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