Ali Al Ahmad, director of Abu Dhabi TV, and Nart Bouran ( see TBS 10 Interview with Nart Y. Bouran, Director of the Abu Dhabi TV News Center ) were in Dubai on October 8, 2003 to observe the Arab Media Summit. Abdallah Schleifer interviewed them for TBS. TBS: Abu Dhabi came …

  On the summer of 2003, Orbit Satellite Television and Radio Network announced the launch of its Direct-To-Home broadcast services and a full range of viewing and entertainment applications in the Egyptian market. TBS correspondent Hala Abdulrahman reviewed Orbit's offerings and interviewed Felix Serhan, Orbit's vice president and managing director. …

TBS visited Qatar to touch base with the granddaddy of the Arab all-news satellite channels, al-Jazeera, which, at seven years of age and with much water (and a fair amount of blood) under the bridge, is in a reflective mood. A lot has changed since Al Jazeera first showed the …

While TBS was visiting CNBC Arabiya, Cyba Audi was on the monitors all over the building presenting her show Kalam al Suq. Later we caught up with her for a chat. TBS: Tell us what you were doing before? Audi: At CNBC Arabiya I present two shows, Kalam al Suq ("Market Talk") …

Schleifer: How would you describe the particular challenge (as the leading global TV news agency) of providing coverage of this Gulf War? Ritchie: With this one you need to be live or very close to live. The broadcasters expect to see pictures immediately and our biggest investment before the conflict was in …

It was difficult to have more than a fleeting moment with Saleh Negm, Al Arabiya's head of news, during the first week of the war. He was dashing about, massaging into effective function a new, untried 24/7 broadcast news organization, and working 18 hours a day at it. And if …

Nart Bouran is one of the most strikingly professional people in the Arab satellite television news business. He joined Abu Dhabi TV six months ago after a two-year stint as DG at Jordan TV. Before that Bouran was with APTN in London as regional executive for the Middle East and …

The last two times I met Ali Al Ahmed he was an important executive at E-Vision, Ittesalat's cable network, which to a great degree had to struggle from within a telecom rather than competitive broadcasting culture. I was struck at the time by his vision and obvious energy that I …

In a rapidly changing world of satellite television news there is one constant - Ibrahim Helal the chief editor (news director in American parlance) of Al Jazeera, who never seems to leave the News Center and must have secretly married the channel in some arcane ceremony half a decade ago, …

Schleifer: How is Al Jazeera's coverage different from past years? Al Ali: The big difference is that with each passing day we acquire experience. This year we were able to apply our past experience by undertaking longer term and better planning-where to put our journalists, how to get into difficult, even dangerous, …