Archive for the 'Arabsat' Category
Nov 26, 2009, post by Satellite News
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Iraq-based Al-Nahrein radio and TV network has condemned two Arab-controlled satellite providers for taking Al-Alam off air, calling on them to apologize the Arabic-language channel.
In a statement released on its website, the Iraqi network described the two Arab satellite providers’ decision to drop Al-Alam as “a mistake” and “obvious abuse of freedom of expression and opinion.”
Saudi-based Arabsat and Cairo-based Nilsat dropped Al-Alam this week without prior notice.
Several regional and international media and political activists have so far slammed the move, saying that the ban will serve Israeli regime.
Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah also condemn the two Arab satellite companies’ move in a Friday statement, saying the decision was taken “on political grounds”.
Hezbollah informed the move is a violation of freedom of speech.
Al-Alam’s request for an explanation has remained unanswered.
After several days of silence, Arabsat and Nilesat authorities claimed that the main reason behind dropping Al-Alam, was the Tehrn-based network’s continuous criticizing of some figures in the Arab world.
They also claimed that Iran’s Arabic-language news channel abused rules of broadcasting by violating some religious and political issues.
However Al-Alam has called on the operators to mention the exact time and date of the programs which they have found offensive.
Analysts say some Arab governments are worried about the channel’s popularity and Iran’s growing influence in the region.
Nov 20, 2009, post by Satellite News
After Arab satellite operators took Iran’s Al-Alam television network off air, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) calls on Arabsat operators to immediately resume services for the network.
Contents of a contract dated January 31, 2002 between IRIB and ArabsatArabsat never signify that ArabsatArabsat has the right to breach the agreement and stop the service “unilaterally and intentionally,” the IRIB Warehouse and Procurement Department informed in a letter to ArabsatArabsat operators on Wednesday.
It noted that the interruption of a TV channel which has a considerable audience causes great harms to its credit.
The Arabic-language news channel Al-Alam was taken off air last week by ArabsatArabsat and Egyptian-run Nilesat for hosting “several opposition figures,” who had “mounted accusations and lies” against leaders in the Persian Gulf region.
In a letter to Iran’s broadcasting authorities, ArabsatArabsat named a London-based opposition figure, Mohammad Al-Massari, as one of the figures hosted by Al-Alam that had spoken “against the Saudi government and its leaders based on hatred of its leaders.”
Mohammad Al-Massari is an exiled Saudi physicist and political dissident who gained asylum in the United Kingdom in 1994. Riyadh accuses Al-Massari of supporting a plot aimed at assassinating the Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, a claim he denies.
The IRIB dismissed the claims and said, “IRIB’s policy in production and broadcasting programs is always based on respecting the legal and international laws and ground rules.”
“As a matter of fact, the broadcasting of perfect, honest and neutral reports and programs” is a goal that is pursued by Al-Alam network, the letter read.
The IRIB also suggested a face-to-face negotiation between its representatives and an ArabsatArabsat delegation to resolve “misunderstandings” to pave the way for the resumption of Al-Alam service on the satellite.
Egypt’s largest opposition movement has slammed the removal of Iran’s Arabic-language news channel Al-Alam from the satellite operators NileSat and Badr.
“The banning is a sign of a trend prevailing in Arab countries, which refuses to accept the communication revolution or the global village,” Essam El-Erian, a leading figure in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said on Wednesday, Presstv reported.
Nov 20, 2009, post by Satellite News
Al-Alam has resumed broadcasting its programs on a new European satellite after being dropped by the two Arab satellite operators Arabsat and Nilesat.
The Tehran-based Arabic language news network is now broadcasting its programs on the European satellite Atlantic Bird 4: frequency 11355 MHz, vertical polarization.
Saudi-based Arabsat and Cairo-based Nilsat dropped Al-Alam earlier without prior notice.
Several regional and international media and political activists have so far slammed the move, saying that the ban is in violation of freedom of expression.
Iranian officials said earlier that based on contracts already signed with the two satellites, the ban was also an improper move which could be sued.
Al-Alam accused the broadcasters of ceasing the transmission for “political reasons,” informing that the move is in violation of contracts with the two satellite companies.
The channel also stressed that it has broadcast news in a balanced and impartial manner, avoiding stirring religious and ethnic strife among Muslims.
