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Arabsat Resumes News Channel.
The Arab world’s main satellite operator has resumed broadcasting an Iranian Arabic language channel it drooped nearly a month earlier.
The Saudi Arabia-hosted ArabSat unpredictably banned the Iranian station which reaches millions of Arabic speaking viewers in over 100 countries because of “contractual violations.”
The move was widely seen at the time as an attempt to limit Iran’s influence in the region.
Al-Alam only informed in a statement the services by Arabsat were resumed Saturday.
An official at the Arabsat office informed the two sides have “cleared their differences.”
Al-Alam described the move as politically motivated.
The Egyptian-owned Nilesat, which also used to broadcast the channel, has not resumed services.
About Arabsat
Now one of the world’s top satellite operators, and by far the leading satellite services provider in the Arab world, it carries 350+ TV channels and 160+ Radio stations, reaching tens of millions of homes in over 100 countries across the Middle East, Africa and Europe, including an audience of more than 164 million viewers within the 21 Arab countries alone (“2007 MENA Sat-TV Landscape:” study performed by IPSOS-stats for Arabsat), and delivering hundreds of thousands of vital telecommunication (Click here to view Arabsat’s coverage areas). Operating a growing fleet of 4 satellites at the 26°East and 30.5°East positions of the geostationary orbit, Arabsat is the only satellite operator in the region offering the full spectrum of Broadcast, Telecommunications and Broadband services. This translates to enough space capacity for providing a greater number than any other player in the region of TV and Radio broadcasting services, professional data network solutions, telephony & IP trunking backbone connectivity, and broadband Internet access to media and entertainment companies, corporate customers or government entities.