BBC Arabic Television
| BBC Arabic Television | |
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| Launched | 11 March 2008 |
| Network | BBC World Service |
| Owned by | BBC |
| Picture format | 576i (16:9 SDTV) |
| Audience share | Available in 10.7 million homes (March 2007, ) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | Literary Arabic |
| Broadcast area | Middle East |
| Headquarters | Broadcasting House, London |
| Website | bbc.co.uk/arabic |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Hot Bird 6 | 12597 V / 27500 / 3/4 |
| Hot Bird 7A | 11334 H / 27500 / 2/3 & 11432 V / 27500 / 2/3 |
| Astra 1L | 11597 V / 22000 / 5/6 |
| Thor 2 | 11325 H / 24500 / 7/8 |
| SKY Italia | Channel 520 |
| Cyfra+ | Channel 104 |
| Cyfrowy Polsat | Channel 85 |
| Boom TV | Channel ? |
| Digital+ | Channel 75 |
| Bell ExpressVu | Channel 510 |
| Star Choice | Channel 501 |
| Astro Malaysia | Channel 93 |
| Tata Sky | Channel 536 |
| Dialog TV | Channel 2 |
| TrueVisions | Channel 72 |
| Astro Nusantara | Channel 32 |
| SKY Network Television | Channel 93 |
| SelecTV | Channel 5 |
| TVB Pay Vision | Channel 62 |
| SkyLife | Channel 528 |
| CanalSat | Channel 48 |
| Digiturk | Channel 122 |
| Dream | Channel 21 |
| Foxtel | Channel 606 |
| SKY Latin America | Channel 631 |
| DStv | Channel 50 |
| TV Vlaanderen Digitaal | Channel 51 |
| NTV Plus | Channel 10 |
| Cable | |
| UPC Ireland | Channel 206 |
| StarHub digital | Channel 13 |
| Rogers Cable | Channel 194 Digital (Analogue varies by region) |
| Shaw TV | Channels Vary |
| Cablevision | Channel 104 |
| now TV | Channel 320 |
| Cable TV | Channel 75 |
| Foxtel Digital | Channel 103 |
| SkyCable | Channel 29 |
| Global Destiny | Channel 43 |
| OneLink Communications (San Juan, Puerto Rico) | Channel 74 |
| TelstraClear InHomeTV | Channel 93 |
| Verizon FiOS | Channel 92 |
| CATV (50%) | various numbers |
| Foxtel Digital | Channel 606 |
| Kabel Deutschland | Channel 838 |
| RCS&RDS | Channel 53 |
| UPC | Channel 79 |
| FASTWEB (Italy) | Channel 520 |
| IPTV | |
| FASTWEB (Italy) | Channel 520 |
| Alice Home TV (Italy) | Channel 520 |
| Internet television | |
| BBC Arabic | Watch live |
BBC Arabic Television is a television news channel broadcast to the Middle East by the BBC. It was launched at 0956 GMT on 11 March 2008. The service was announced in October 2005 and was to start broadcasting in Autumn 2007, but was delayed.
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Presenters [edit]
Presenters include Tareq Alaas, Tony Khouri, Malak Jaafar, Fida Bassil, Rania Al-Attar and Hamdan Jerjawi.
Funding [edit]
BBC Arabic Television is run by the BBC World Service; as such, it is funded from a grant-in-aid from the British Foreign Office and not the television licence that is used to fund the BBC's domestic broadcasting. The service is based in the Egton Wing of Broadcasting House in London, but some technical aspects are managed at the BBC World Service's Bush House. 24-hour programming began 19 January 2009.
In 2011, as the British government cut funding to the BBC, forcing the BBC World Service to close down its services in five languages, the government simultaneously increased funding to the BBC Arabic service, in the words of Foreign Secretary William Hague, to "assist the BBC Arabic Service to continue their valuable work in the region".[1]
Service [edit]
BBC Arabic can also be seen via www.bbcarabic.com. The website includes a 16:9 live stream of the channel.
Newshour, an hour-long news bulletin is broadcast twice a day. In this programme, the top stories of the day are analysed and covered by BBC correspondents around the world. Other bulletins are half-an-hour long. The top stories are broadcast on the channel every fifteen minutes.
History [edit]
This is not the first time that the BBC has attempted to set up an Arabic television service. The previous attempt closed on 21 April 1996, after two years on air, when the BBC's partners, Orbit Communications Corporation (owned by King Fahd's cousin, Prince Khaled) pulled the plug after the BBC broadcast an episode of Panorama that was critical of the Saudi Arabian government. Many of the staff who worked for the original BBC Arabic Television service went on to work for Al Jazeera television.[2] Al Jazeera is one of BBC Arabic Television's main competitors.
Competitors [edit]
References [edit]
External links [edit]
- Official website (Arabic)
- Live video stream
- BBC Press Release
- http://www.tbsjournal.com/Amin.html
- The Failed Dream That Lead To Al Jazeera
- Faisal Abbas: "BBC Arabic TV 'should try to be different, " BBC News Online on March 12, 2008
- Adam Sherwin: "BBC Arabic TV service tunes in to crowded news market," The Times (UK) on March 6, 2008
- Eric Pfanner: "BBC Set to Open Its New Arab World TV Channel in New York Times on March 4, 2008
- David Chambers: "BBC Arabic TV will Rock the Arab World," Middle East Times on March 10, 2008 (also Yemen Observer, Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW), Arab News/Italy)
- Chris Forrester: "‘Switch off Al Hurra’ call," Rapid TV News on March 10, 2008
- "BBC launches Arabic TV channel," BBC on March 11, 2008
- Oleg Gordievsky: "World Service kowtows, March 22, 2008 (with Vladimir Bukovsky, Martin Dewhirst, Sergei Cristo, and Leonid Finkelstein)
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