ARAB NEWS NETWORK

'Arab News Network' (ANN) is a news channel broadcast on satellite from London. It has faced great financial issues.
ANN is a politically motivated satellite TV station owned by Rifaat al-Assad, the uncle of Syria's current President Bashar al-Assad. The two have been in disagreement over political issues and ANN TV exists to promote democracy within Syria and other Arabic countries.
The station broadcast daily English news from November 2004 to March 2006, but since then has been broadcasting solely in Arabic. The desire to remove the programme reflected a change in management. Rifat's son, Ribal Al Assad, is currently Director of the London Bureau,he has decided to cancel the English programme because after he took over, he noticed that there was no audience for that programme.
Major restructuring has been undergone and the latest technologies(AVID MEDIA,GOOGLE EARTH...) have been acquired by the channel in order to improve its image.
ANN is currently broadcasting on Hotbird and Arabsat and will be soon broadcasting on Nilesat.

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★ Article about ANN