OSN News is a 24-hour satellite channel offering exclusively American news programming from
NBC
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, and
MSNBC
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to
U.S. expatriates, primarily geared towards an audience in the Arab countries. The channel is available on
OSN Network in
Middle East
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and
North Africa
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.
Background
OSN News offers live coverage from major U.S. news networks
NBC
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and
MSNBC
MSNBC is an American cable news channel owned by the NBCUniversal News Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Launched on July 15, 1996, and headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, the channel primarily broadcasts r ...
such as NBC's ''
Today
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'' are followed by news magazine programs, documentaries, and financial shows. World, business, technology and entertainment news and weather from MSNBC is also offered.
OSN News is broadcast by
Orbit Showtime Network, a major
pay television
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service in the Middle East and North Africa. In 2009 two new channels were launched, Orbit News 2 and Orbit News 3, offering extended coverage of American news from MSNBC and NBC. These two services were taken off air during the fall 2010 at the same time the main channel changed names from Orbit News to OSN News.
NBC and MSNBC shows on OSN News
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NBC Nightly News
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The Today Show
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Weekend Today Show''
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Early Today
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Morning Joe
''Morning Joe'' is an American morning news talk show, which airs weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time Zone, Eastern Time on the cable news channel MSNBC. It features former United States House of Representatives, US Repr ...
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MSNBC Reports''
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''MTP Daily''
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The Beat with Ari Melber''
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All In with Chris Hayes''
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The Rachel Maddow Show''
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, ''
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell''
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''The 11th Hour with Brian Williams''
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Inside with Jen Psaki''
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José Díaz-Balart Reports''
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OSN News Logos
File:Orbitnews.jpg, 1997 - 2010
File:Osn orbit news1.png, 2010 - 2011
File:OSN News 2013.jpg, 2013 - 2017
See also
*
OSN
Orbit Showtime Network, commonly known as OSN, is a Dubai-based Satellite television, satellite TV company, serving the Middle East and North Africa region. OSN mainly broadcasts programming from TV networks owned by Paramount Global, Warner B ...
*
OSN Movies
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OSN Sports
External links
OSN TV Channels
24-hour television news channels
NBC News
MSNBC
American diaspora mass media