Satellite television and development in the Middle East

Middle East Report

Volumn 29, Issue 210, 1999, Pages 6-8

  Sakr, Naomi ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; MEDIA INDUSTRY; TELEVISION;

MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0032764319     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3012492     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. London is home to Saudi-owned MBC, Kurdish-owned MED TV and Arab News Network (AKN) owned by Syrian President Asad's nephew. The Saudi-owned pay-TV operator, Orbit, is based in Rome.
2. Al-Jazeera has caused controversy by, among other things, leading news bulletins with coverage of the illness of King Fahd.
3. Factual information on Media Production City was gathered during a visit on September 6, 1998. The number of permanent employees is approximately 350.
4. According to the Pan-Arab Research Center (PARC), data quoted in ArabAd, February 1993, pp. 24-26.
5. Interview with Chris Forrester in Gulf Marketing Review, May 1998, p. 27.
6. Figures collated from various sources, including PARC, Eutelsat, Stat-IPSOS, and Fortune Promoseven.
7. Four transponders are taken by the ERTU and the ministries of education, higher education and health. A fifth is reserved for ad hoc purposes. ART and Showtime have two each. Iraq and Libya have one each. Oman, Bahrain, Ajman and the Palestinian Authority have slots on the twelfth.
8. Interview with the author, Cairo, August 15, 1998.
9. Interview with the author, Beirut, March 26, 1993.
10. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (London: Verso, 1991), p.46.
11. E.g., the study by Alec Hargreaves and Dalila Mahdjoub on families of Maghrebi origin in France, in European Journal of Communication 12/4 (December 1997).
12. MBC dismissed 120 staff members during the summer of 1998.