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BBC News Arabic ( ar, بي بي سي نيوز عربي), formerly BBC Arabic Television, is a
television news channel
News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or televi ...
broadcast to the
Arab World
The Arab world ( ar, اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ '), formally the Arab homeland ( '), also known as the Arab nation ( '), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, refers to a vast group of countries, mainly located in Western A ...
by the
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. It was launched on 11 March 2008. It is run by the BBC World Service and funded from the British television licence fee.
History
In 1994, BBC Arabic Television was launched by Rome-based
Orbit Communications Company
Orbit Communications Company was a privately owned Pay TV network, operating in Bahrain. Owned by Saudi Arabia-based Mawarid Holding (via Digital Media Systems), it was the first fully digital, multi-channel, multi-lingual, pay television serv ...
(owned by
King Fahd
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ( ar, فهد بن عبد العزيز آل سعود ''Fahd ibn ʿAbd al ʿAzīz Āl Suʿūd'', ; 1920, 1921 or 1923 – 1 August 2005) was a Saudi Arabian politician who was King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia fro ...
's cousin, Prince
Khalid ibn Abdullah
Khalid (variants include Khaled and Kalid; Arabic: خالد) is a popular Arabic male given name meaning "eternal, everlasting, immortal", and it also appears as a surname. ) and a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabian
Mawarid Holding
Mawarid Holding is a private Saudi investment company. It was established in 1968. Its headquarters are in Suleimania, Riyadh. It manages and controls investments in diversified businesses in financial services, telecommunications, satellite tele ...
. On 21 April 1996, it was "pulled off the air"
following an episode of ''
Panorama'' that was critical of the
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...
n government. Ian Richardson, who set up the news department during that time blamed the short life of the channel on a clash with the owners over content.
During the short life of BBC Arabic Television, there were several angry ‘liaison meetings’ with Orbit and the guarantees of editorial independence proved to be a sour joke, only barely obscured by a thin smokescreen about the BBC's alleged failure to observe "cultural sensitivities" – Saudi code for anything not to the Royal Family's liking. When it became clear to Orbit and Mawarid that it had, in their terms, created a monster not prepared to toe the Saudi line, it was only a matter of time before there would be a final parting of the ways.
Many of the staff who worked for the original BBC Arabic Television service were eventually employed by
Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazeera ...
,
now one of BBC Arabic Television's main competitors.
Plans to relaunch the channel were announced in October 2005 and broadcasting was to start in Autumn 2007, but was delayed until 2008. The channel eventually relaunched at 0956
GMT
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight. At different times in the past, it has been calculated in different ways, including being calculated from noon; as a cons ...
on 11 March 2008, with the first news bulletin airing at the top of the hour at 1000. Initially broadcasting for 12 hours a day, 24-hour programming began on 19 January 2009.
Funding
BBC Arabic Television is run by the
BBC World Service. Initially it was funded from a
grant-in-aid
A grant-in-aid is money coming from a central government for a specific project. Such funding is usually used when the government and the legislature decide that the recipient should be publicly funded but operate with reasonable independence ...
from the British
Foreign Office but in 2014 funding was switched to come from the
television licence
A television licence or broadcast receiving licence is a payment required in many countries for the reception of television broadcasts, or the possession of a television set where some broadcasts are funded in full or in part by the licence ...
that is mainly used to fund the BBC's domestic broadcasting. The service is based in the Peel Wing of
Broadcasting House in London.
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
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...
, to "assist the BBC Arabic Service to continue their valuable work in
the region".
"BBC World Service receives government funding boost"
BBC, June 22, 2011
Service
BBC Arabic can also be seen vi
bbc.co.uk/Arabic/
The website includes a 16:9 live stream of the channel.
The channel broadcasts 24 hours a day, showing live news programmes mixed with current affairs programmes, documentaries and occasional light entertainment.
''Newshour'', an hour-long news bulletin is broadcast every evening at 18:00 GMT.
Other daily programmes are Nuqtat Hewar (16:06 GMT, a phone-in programme), and BBC Trending #REDIRECT BBC
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(15:00 GMT, looking at the news agenda from a social media perspective).
BBC news bulletins of either 30 or 60 minutes in duration are broadcast throughout the day, covering stories by journalists and correspondents around the world.
References
External links
*
Live video stream
BBC Press Release
* Faisal Abbas:
BBC Arabic TV 'should try to be different
" ''BBC'' 12 March 2008
* Eric Pfanner:
in ''New York Times'' 4 March 2008
*
BBC launches Arabic TV channel
" ''BBC'' 11 March 2008
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