Zarok TV
Country | Turkey |
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Headquarters | Diyarbakir, Turkey |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Kurmanji and Kirmanjki |
Ownership | |
Owner | Başkent Vizyon Radio Television Broadcasting Corporation |
Zarok TV (Kurdish: Kid TV[1]) is the first satellite television station in Turkey for Kurdish children, launched on 21 March 2015 and based in Diyarbakır. The channel broadcasts in the languages of Kurmanji and Kirmanjki.[2][3]
It was shut down under the emergency statutory decree issued in the aftermath of 15 July's failed coup d'état, alongside 11 other television and 11 radio stations, on 29 September 2016 when police raided the television station's headquarters.[4][5][6]
After the closure decision was abandoned, Zarok TV was re-launched and has been back on air on the same satellite details/frequency since 8 December 2016.
In January 2019, Zarok TV lost its broadcasting contract with Nickelodeon and no longer airs Nickelodeon-owned properties such as SpongeBob SquarePants.
Programs
Current programming
- Tom & Jerry Kids
- Maya the Bee
- Angelo Rules
- Adventure Time
- Garfield
- Cédric
- The Tom and Jerry Show
- The Road Runner Show
- The Smurfs
- Oscar's Oasis
- Yakari
- The Adventures of Tintin
- Little Hippo
- Chicken Town
- Corneil & Bernie
- Boule et Bill
- 64 Zoo Lane
- Pablo the Little Red Fox
- Dora Te (Your Turn)
- Hilltop Hospital
- Louie
- Trotro
- Mig Said
- Nîkil&Gewez
- Masî&Kevjal
- Landik
- Morî
- Breadwinners
Former programming
- The Amazing World of Gumball
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
- Maya the Honey Bee
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- The Angry Beavers
- The Fairly OddParents
See also
References
- ^ Ari Khalidi (9 November 2016). "Turkey will allow Kurdish kids' channel to broadcast again". Kurdistan 24.
The Diyarbakir-based Zarok TV, whose name means 'child'...
- ^ http://zaroktv.com.tr/English/About-Us
- ^ http://zaroktv.krd/English/About-Us
- ^ Police raid TV station over ‘terror propaganda,’ cut broadcast
- ^ "İMC TV de kapatıldı" [IMC TV was also closed] (in Turkish). BBC World Service. 30 September 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
- ^ "Turkey police shut down pro-Kurdish TV channel live on air". Gulf News. 4 October 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
External links
- Official Website - www.zarok.tv
- Official Website - www.zaroktv.com.tr
- Zarok TV Live - www.kurdtvs.net/zarok-tv
- Zarok TV on Facebook
- Zarok TV on Twitter
- Zarok TV on YouTube
- Kurdish-language television stations
- 2015 establishments in Turkey
- Television channels and stations established in 2015
- Television channels and stations disestablished in 2016
- Mass media shut down in the 2016 Turkish purges
- Television stations in Turkey
- Children's television networks
- Diyarbakır
- Television station stubs
- Turkish television stubs