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The European Broadcasting Union: Covering the Globe

The president of Syria dies. The phones start ringing at the European Broadcasting Union's (EBU) headquarters in Geneva. TV producers from around the entire globe are calling to find out if EBU has a satellite transmission operation at the funeral. EBU does. According to EBU Producer Youssef el Alfy, on large …

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Global News and the Vanishing American Foreign Correspondent

Until recent years, American television news was global news. American network news coverage was delivered all over the world-ABC fed to UPITN, NBC to Visnews, CBS had its own syndication service. The networks' news coverage wasn't, therefore, just for an American audience. It performed the role of providing global news, because …

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The Dubai Digital Broadcasting Miracle

It seems like it all has happened in little more than a year: the launch of Dubai TV's cutting-edge digital satellite channel, the Dubai Business Channel; the opening of the extraordinary Dubai Press Club with its vast expanse of Internet-connected computer stations and large overhead TV screens tuned in to every …

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MediaWire

The MediaWire is Arab Media & Society’s current events hub for all things media-related in the region. In addition to cross-publishing articles from other media outlets, we are seeking original contributions on a rolling basis. Articles for publication must adhere to the following guidelines: Content should reflect unbiased and objective reporting …

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ERTU, Investors at Odds Over Media Privatization

CAIRO, EGYPT, April 4, 2000 A new private satellite station to be located in Egypt's new Media Free Zone is being formed by a partnership of fifty local private investors, according to Abdel Rahman Hafez, Chairman of the Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU). The introduction of private channels is …

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An Afternoon with Einstein

Extracts from a discussion held with mass communications students and faculty at the Adham Center for Television Journalism on March 6, 2000, on the occasion of Gulf DTH/Showtime President and CEO Peter Einstein's appointment as an Associate (honorary faculty member) of the Adham Center. Peter Einstein: Egypt and the Middle East …

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