Al-Baghdadia TV is an independent
Iraq
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i-owned
Arabic
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-language
satellite channel
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based in
Cairo, Egypt
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. It is considered a Nationalistic channel of funding directly and only from the CEO.
[The 'Lebanonization' of the Iraqi Media: An Overview of Iraq's Television Landscape]
Paul Cochrane, Transnatonal Broadcasting Studies Journal, No. 16, December–January 2006; Retrieved 16 December 2008. During the
Iraqi insurgency Iraqi insurgency may refer to:
* Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011), part of the Iraq War
** Iraqi insurgency (2003–2006), 2003–2006 phase of the Iraqi insurgency
** Iraqi civil war (2006–2008), multi-sided civil war in Iraq
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, several prominent journalists with the station were murdered.
[ More recently, Global TV Stations depend on Al Baghdadia for news coming from Iraq. It has a live morning show called 'Al Baghdadia Wa El Nas' which is a free show that allows Iraqis to give their opinion and to send a message to the government, this supports Iraqi democracy. The CEO of Al Baghdadia believes that democracy should be created by true Iraqis, not by force. The TV station is dubbed the name 'Umm al-Fuqarā' (The Mother of the Poor People).
In 2012, Al-Baghdadia Media Group launches its second channel, B2, broadcasting mainly series, drama, movies and entertainment. since then Al Baghdadia 2 is first entertainment channel in Iraq, B2 freq on Nilesat (Frequency: 11747, S/R: 27500, Pol: Horizontal, Fec: 4/3) .
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History
Management and programming
Al-Baghdadia is a general entertainment channel that broadcasts in Arabic
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via a Hot Bird 8 at 13E satellite (Frequency: 11747, S/R:27500, Pol:Vertical, Fec: 3/4), Nilesat (Frequency: 11747, S/R: 27500, Pol: Horizontal, Fec: 4/3), the CEO and Managing Director of the station is Dr. Awn Hussain Al Khashlok (a Civil Engineer), Abdel-Hameed al-Sayeh is the station's manager
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, in Cairo. The Newseum
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The purpose of the museum, funded by the ...
said, "The station is often critical of the U.S. presence in Iraq." Dr. Hussein Shaaban, the previous director general of Al Baghdadia, has described the U.S. occupation as "humiliating to Iraq".
Muntadhar al-Zaidi and shoeing of Bush
In September 2005, Muntadhar al-Zaidi
Muntadhar al-Zaidi ( ar, منتظر الزيدي ''Muntaẓar az-Zaydī''; born 15 January 1979) is an Iraqi broadcast journalist who served as a correspondent for Iraqi-owned, Egyptian-based Al-Baghdadia TV. , al-Zaidi works with a Lebanes ...
joined the station.[Family: Shoe thrower hates both US, Iran role]
Robert H. Reid, Associated Press, 15 December 2008. On 16 November 2007, al-Zaidi was kidnapped in Baghdad working on assignment for Al-Baghdadia, but released on November 19, without harm or ransom payments. The studio gained international attention when al-Zaidi hurled two of his shoes at U.S. President
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George W. Bush
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during a press conference in Baghdad
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on 14 December 2008. Dhirgham al-Zaidi, who sometimes worked as his brother's cameraman, said Muntadhar's reporting for the station was "against the occupation," and that at times he signed off "from occupied Baghdad."[Shoe-thrower's brother: He wanted to humiliate 'tyrant]
CNN, 15 December 2008; Retrieved 15 December 2008. Dihirgham said the reporter's stories focused on Iraqi widows, orphans, and children.[
After he was jailed, the station issued a statement demanding al-Zaidi's release. Canada's '']The Globe and Mail
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'' chastised the channel in an editorial, stating, "To its shame, Al Baghdadia has not only failed to apologize, or to discipline or fire Mr. Zaidi, who is being held in an Iraqi jail over the attempted assault, but instead posted his photo on its website and attacked the government for holding him." The network appointed Dheyaa al-Saadi
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, president of the Union of Lawyers in Iraq, to defend Zaidi.[Iraqi Shoe-Hurling Journalist to Face Judge on Wednesday]
Timothy Williams and Abeer Mohammed, ''The New York Times
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'', 16 December 2008.
Journalists murdered
In a round of killings targeting journalists during the Iraqi insurgency Iraqi insurgency may refer to:
* Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011), part of the Iraq War
** Iraqi insurgency (2003–2006), 2003–2006 phase of the Iraqi insurgency
** Iraqi civil war (2006–2008), multi-sided civil war in Iraq
* Iraqi insurgency (20 ...
that shocked the country, Al-Baghdadia suffered through several casualties of some of its most well-known contributors.[Iraq media killings provoke shock]
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'', May 10, 2006. On 16 January 2006,
Luaay Salam Radeef was murdered. In April 2006, So'oud Muzahim al-Shoumari, an Al-Baghdadia correspondent, was found dead in Baghdad's southern district of
(CPJ).
correspondent So'oud Mukahim Al-Shoumari, who was also known by the last name Al-Hadithi, was abducted,
d and shot dead in Baghdad.
for the channel, Jawad Al-Daami, was murdered in Baghdad on 24 September 2007.