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Arabia
Kingdom to Launch News TV Channel
2003-12-17
Saudi Arabia will launch its own satellite news TV channel early next year, it was announced yesterday. Culture and Information Minister Dr. Fouad Al-Farsy said the new channel would offer continuous coverage of international news and current affairs. “Preparations for the launch of the channel... are in the final stages. The channel will start satellite transmission by the middle of the Hijri month of Dul Qaada,” the minister said in a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency.
I can hardly wait...
He said the channel would strive for credibility and a swift response to news of national, Arab and international importance. A portion of programs would be devoted to covering events in the Kingdom, he added.
Like Friday sermons in Mecca?
Al-Farsy said the channel would air live talk shows about topical issues in addition to recorded programs on the Kingdom and other countries. Meanwhile, the Saudi radio has started an experimental transmission over the world wide web. Its Internet offerings include the general radio program, the second-channel radio program, the Holy Qur’an radio program, the European radio program in English and French, the music radio program, Urdu radio program and other radio programs in various languages.
I'm not sure my heart can take this excitement...
The transmission of these programs can be downloaded through saudiradio.net. At the same website, beta transmission of Saudi television has also begun. A broadband connection is advised to watch the TV programs.
I guess NakedNews.com can hang it up...
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#9  Will it come with basic cable, or do I have to order a premium package?
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-12-17 9:17:56 PM  

#8  Since al Arabiyah is already owned by a member of the royal family, let's hope this channel isn't quite as ridiculous.
Posted by: Nick   2003-12-17 8:13:33 PM  

#7  KJHD? No, they're east of the Mississippi, so that would be WHBI radio...
Posted by: Rivrdog   2003-12-17 12:09:30 PM  

#6  All fatwas, all the time.

"..on Riyadh's 50,000 watt Bombtalk, KJHD radio."
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-12-17 10:21:22 AM  

#5  All fatwas, all the time. While they're rocking, we're crocking...
Posted by: tu3031   2003-12-17 9:15:21 AM  

#4  I had to check (for curiositys sake mind!), and nakednews.com is a real live (hoho) site.

Where's the online form to request that Friday sermons in Mecca be broadcast with an English translation?.
Posted by: Tony (UK)   2003-12-17 6:40:19 AM  

#3  I would prefer they pump their hate out in broad daylight instead of the whispering campaign in Arabic they have been employing. This is going to be a nightmare for the House of Saud, especially with other nations and news networks watching them closely.
Posted by: Ben   2003-12-17 4:02:05 AM  

#2  Actually, doesn't Fundy Islam have some sort of beef with "graven images"? I seem to recall a Commandment of some sort that there be no "life-like images" or something along those lines.

If that truly is the case, wouldn't television and movies be forbidden to strictly fundamentalist Islam?

Tisk, tisk... someone's gonna have to issue a fatwah banning photography. HowEVER did the clerics manage to miss this one for so many years?

*smirk*

Seriously, will someone more familiar with the Koran and Islam chip in here and give a clearer definition of the commandment in question, and how modern Islam is wiggling around it? (if, that is, there's a commandment to wiggle around in the first place...)

Ed Becerra
Posted by: Ed Becerra   2003-12-17 1:39:10 AM  

#1  Dull Qaada just about says it all, doesn't it?
More crap, lies and propaganda from the magnanimous House of Saud instead of real jobs, development, civil liberties and the free exchange of ideas.
Good God Allah, it must really suck to be a citizen of SA! No wonder they're so eager to be splodeydopes!
Posted by: Jennie Taliaferro   2003-12-17 12:47:32 AM  

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