Al Mayadeen
Lebanese satellite news television channel / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Al Mayadeen (Arabic: الميادين, transl. "The Plazas") is an Iran-aligned[3][4] Lebanese pan-Arabist satellite news television channel based in the city of Beirut. Launched on 11 June 2012, it has news reporters in most of the Arab countries.[5] In the pan-Arabist television news market, it competes against Qatar-owned Al Jazeera and Saudi-owned Al Arabiya, and also against Sky News Arabia and BBC News Arabic.[6][7] At the time it was founded, most of the channel's senior staff were former correspondents and editors of Al Jazeera. Al Mayadeen has widely been categorized as pro-Hezbollah and pro-Bashar al-Assad.[5][3][4][8][9][10]
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Type | News broadcasting channel |
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Country | Lebanon |
Broadcast area | Worldwide[1][2] |
Network | Al Mayadeen Satellite Media Network |
Headquarters | Beirut (main), Tunis, Cairo, Tehran |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Arabic, English, Spanish |
Ownership | |
Key people | Ghassan bin Jiddo (director), George Galloway (presenter) |
History | |
Launched | 11 June 2012; 11 years ago (2012-06-11) |
Links | |
Website | english |
Availability | |
Streaming media | |
Al Mayadeen Live | LiveStation link |
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