BBC Arabic TV Channel in 2007
The BBC World Service has announced it is to set up a new Arabic television channel, in what it describes as its "biggest transformation in 70 years."
The new station is expected to be a rival to the Qatar-based al-Jazeera, which is itself launching an English-language service next year.
The World Service says its new Arabic language television service is "part of a wide-ranging package of proposals aimed at maintaining and enhancing BBC World Service's pre-eminent position and impact in an emerging multimedia age."
The Arabic channel, due to launch in 2007, forms part of a £30 million (U.S.$53 million) package of new initiatives.
The BBC Arabic radio service is well respected in the countries it's available in, and their online Arabic news are also good. So, I think if any international news organisation were to launch an Arabic TV channel, BBC would be the best positioned to do so and build upon their previous successes.
I'd really like to see how it turns out and what their programme will be like.
Arabic Language Discovery Channel Rotana's Islamic Channel Tunisia 21: The Fourth Tunisian Satellite TV Channel Blogging In Arabic The Simpsons in Arabici'm curious about this arabic version of BBC. the english one is among the less "subjective" medias.
Posted by: k-pax at October 27, 2005 04:03 AMI agree with you k-pax that the BBC is one of the more unbiased and least subjective media outlets, that's why it's previous arabic efforts have been met with success in the Arab world.
I'm a big BBC fan so power to them!
But BBC is still at times one sided.
I do not think the BBC is able to copmete in the Middle East by its traditional, rigid, greyish sort of news bulletins al la BBC World (English). The problem with the BBC is that they do believe in themselves more in a way that prevents them from seeing the reallity on the ground. The reality says that people in the ME want to see and hear thongs that are forbidden by their regimes a la Al-Jazeera style. The BBC is always catious not to offend the regimes in the area especially what Britain calls "friendly countries"!
Posted by: ali matar at December 26, 2005 05:52 PMplease tell me when channel bbc arabic be beginning ?
tanx a lot
BBC Arabic Website is the worst in the Arab world. They keep delivering wrong informations daily, bad grammer, poor Arabic and what ever you can imagine!!
Who told you it is good. Do you speak Arabic!!!??
