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SKY NEWS IS set to launch a new 24-hour Arabic-language channel in an attempt to compete with other news outlets across the Arab world.
The rolling news channel, called Sky News Arabia, is already operating online and will begin broadcasting to TV platforms tomorrow.
Around 400 journalists, producers and technicians will work on the new channel, which is based in Abu Dhabi, Sky News said.
It will be in competition with a number of other channels including al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based broadcaster which has carved out a prominent position in the global news market and especially in Arabic-speaking countries.
“Our aim has been to create an impartial and independent breaking news channel for the Arab world,” channel head Nart Bouran said.
Sky News Arabia will offer the ‘MENA’ [Middle East and North Africa] region a fresh approach to television news with an independent editorial mandate at the heart of everything we do.
The channel is a joint venture between BSkyB, which runs Sky News from the UK, and the Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation.
It has attracted more than 100,000 likes on Facebook, and around 5,000 Twitter followers.
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Remember sky Ireland, failed big time. I mean what were they thinking.
Thats because they did it on the cheap and it showed.
Poor Arabs.
Allah Akbar !!!
I can’t see the arabs falling for their propaganda
My God, pro British propaganda spreading even further around the world…….. A sad day
launched just a short time after the Iranian PressTV was removed from the Sky EPG…
also, I noticed this channel advertised on the pitch side LCD billboards during the recent Manchester darby.
George Galloway the new MP for Bradford in the UK was a presenter on an Arab TV station. It was put off the air for telling the truth about the war in Iraq
Crazies!
One World Order is here.!!
Amazing set. Can’t wait to see it live and in action.
Pro western elites are us?
Woman news and weather presenters can look like my mother in law,
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