Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

's Ministry of Information influences the mass media through its control of

printing press A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. It marked a dramatic improvement on earlier printing methods in which the ...

es, granting of newspaper subsidies, and ownership of the country's only

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...

and

radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmi ...

stations. Yemen has nine government-controlled, 50 independent, and 30 party-affiliated

newspaper A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as p ...

s. There are approximately 90 magazines, 50 percent of which are private, 30 percent government-controlled, and 20 percent party-affiliated. The government controls the content of news broadcasts and edits coverage of televised parliamentary debates. Yemen's government usually monitors and blocks political and sexually explicit Web sites. By law and regulation, newspapers and magazines must be government-licensed, and their content is restricted. There have been reports of journalists being physically attacked, as well as arrested and detained.Yemen country profile

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(August 2008). ''This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the

public domain The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly waived, or may be inapplicable. Because those rights have expired, ...

.'' The government gives reasons that such detained journalists are "opposing the law and calling for destruction of infrastructure" and supports some examples as in

Shia insurgency in Yemen The Houthi insurgency in Yemen, also known as the Houthi rebellion, the Sa'dah War, or the Sa'dah conflict, was a military rebellion pitting Zaidi Shia Houthis (though the movement also includes Sunnis) against the Yemeni military that began i ...

and retaliations against unity. The official national news agency is the

Saba News Agency The Saba News Agency (SABA), also known as the Yemen News Agency, is the official state news agency of Yemen. History and profile SABA was founded on 16 November 1970 as the official news agency of North Yemen, and is headquartered in the cap ...

Printed media

Yemen started its ear with printing press in 1853 when the British occupation authorities entered the first printer in Aden to cover its needs of administration, it also sent a number of prisoner to India to train of the manual characters alignment for operating the printing press which was printed by Arabic and English. Printings press expanded in Aden. There are over 20 licensed newspapers and magazines in Yemen among them are in the following table. * Note: the '*' indicates that this newspaper or its website has been blocked by the government, usually due to recent unstable situations.

Television and radio

Yemen has around 17

television channel A television channel is a terrestrial frequency or virtual number over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the terrestrial or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with ...

s, 4 channels owned by the government. These channels are: * Yemen TV channel: The 1st official channel started broadcasting in 1975 in

North Yemen North Yemen may refer to: * Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen (1918–1962) * Yemen Arab Republic The Yemen Arab Republic (YAR; ar, الجمهورية العربية اليمنية '), also known simply as North Yemen or Yemen (Sanaʽa), was a ...

as local media, joined other Arab channels via INTELSAT-59 in 1995 and later

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. * Yamania television channel: This channel was founded in 1980 in the South of Yemen as "Aden channel" and was renamed after the unity of Yemen. * Al-Saeedah television channel: New television channel opened in 2007 and is broadcasting via

. * Suhail television channel: This channel started its broadcast in July 2009 and is operated by Al-Islah political party on

. * Al-Iman television channel: Islamic dedicated channel opened recently in 2008 as a moderate channel against radicalism and terror. * Aden Live: This channel is run by southern separatists via

. * Sama Yemen TV: This channel runs via

. *

Belqees TV Belqees TV (Arabic:قناة بلقيس) is a Yemeni news channel owned by Tawakkol Karman. It was named Belqees after the Queen of Sheba. It was started with the help of Doha Centre for Media Freedom. It started broadcasting in the Yemeni capita ...

: New television channel began broadcast in October 2014 runs via

. * Yemen Shabab TV: This channel targets the youth population and runs via

. * Yosr TV: This channel runs via

. * Maeen TV: This channel runs via

. * Al Saahaat TV: This channel began broadcast on 15 June 2014 and runs via

. * Sheba TV: This channel is run by the government via

. * Azal TV: This channel broadcasts via

. * Yemen Today: This channel broadcasts via

. * Al Shareyyah: A new channel started broadcast on 10 April 2015. * Al Masirah TV: This channel is run by the Houthi movement via

. In addition, there are more than 10 radio channels most of them

broadcasting Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum ( radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting beg ...

in the medium waves, except for San'a

radio channel Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio sta ...

that also broadcasts in the short waves, and locally the FM.

References

External links

Media and Telecommunications Lansdcape in Yemen

infoasaid
guide, February 2012, 118 pp.
yemenonline.info
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Media of Yemen

Printed media

Television and radio

See also

References

External links