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Transnational Broadcasting Studies Issue No. 5 Special Issue: Transnational
Broadcasting |
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| The
Dubai Digital Broadcasting Miracle TBS Senior Editor S. Abdallah Schleifer |
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| Sumner
Redstone: The oldest member of the MTV generation, touring the Arab Gulf,
is still "fired up" by Viacom's international prospects. Plus a report on Viacom's
Middle East cooperation with KIPCO. TBS Contributing Editor Chris Forrester |
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| The
Media Free Zone: An Egyptian Media Production City Finesse TBS Cairo Correspondent Heba Kandil |
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| Transnational
Television and Asymmetrical Interdependence in the Arab World: The Growing Influence
of the Lebanese Satellite Broadcasters Marwan M. Kraidy |
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| Pan-Arab
Satellite Television: Now the Survival Part Jihad Fakhreddine |
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| Optical
Illusions: Television and Censorship in the Arab World Naomi Sakr |
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| EPG
or Bust: This high-tech tool can give Arab broadcasters the competitive edge
they need. TBS Internet Technologies Contributor Hamid Ouddane |
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| "Monitoring
the Middle East's Information Revolution": A Conversation with Michael Hudson
and Jon Anderson, co-directors of Georgetown University's Arab Information Project. TBS Managing Editor Sarah Sullivan |
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| Thematic
Channels' Salvation: Private sector involvement and pay-TV subscription revenues
may put an end to the Nilesat Thematic Channels' dilemma. TBS Cairo Correspondent Heba Kandil |
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| Special
section: "Actors and New Stakes in the Euro-Arab Satellite Scene": Reports from the Institut du Monde Arabe's first Arab broadcasting seminar |
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| New
Challenges for Arab Satellite Television TBS Paris Correspondent Magdi Ghoneim |
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The
Current Situation of Satellite Broadcasting in the Middle East |
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Does
Satellite TV Pay in the Arab World Footprint? |
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| Cover story: A Dialogue with Al-Jazeera Managing Director Mohammed Jasim Al-Ali TBS Senior Editor S. Abdallah Schleifer spoke with Al-Ali in Cairo about the development, philosophy, and new plans of the region's hottest, most controversial channel. | |
| Turning ART Around: New channels, better distribution, and management changes are all part of how John Tydeman, CEO of Arab Digital Distribution, has brought new life to ART. | |
| The Regional Satellite Giants: TBS spoke with Arabsat Assistant Director General Omar Shoter and Nilesat Deputy Chairman and Chief Engineer Salah Hamza about whether it's cooperation or competition between the two companies. | |
| Alexander
Zilo, CEO of Orbit When TBS talked with Zilo in 1998, he predicted that Orbit would strengthen its production presence in the Arab world. Zilo and Orbit have been true to their word. |
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| Humaid
A. Rashid Sahoo, CEO of E-Vision Etisalat subsidiary E-Vision, launched in April, is the first true digital cable operation in the Arab world, and is now serving 20,000 homes in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. |
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| Peter
Einstein, CEO of Gulf DTH/Showtime EPGs, the Internet, MTV Mashaweer, exclusive sports, and more movies than ever...Showtime is bringing a full range of "value added" services and programs to its Middle East subscribers. |
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| Sana'a Mansour, Chair of the Egyptian Satellite Sector, Egyptian Radio and Television Union. Rumor had it that Mansour was to head a new Egyptian private satellite channel. Not so, she tells TBS. | |
| The Secret of CNE's Success: TBS talked with Abdel Rahman Hafez, chairman of the board of both CNE and ERTU, and Khalid Abu Nuwar, general manager of MultiChoice Egypt, about how Egypt's pay-TV leader has turned a profit. | |
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Reports
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| IBC
2000: Keeping Up with New Technology Janet Sandle |
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| Global
Fusion Conference Lives Up to Its Name TBS Managing Editor Sarah Sullivan |
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| Middle
East Conflict Discussed at Hamptons Fest TBS Contributing Editor Janet Fine |
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| "Egypt
in the Information Age" Debated at Cairo Festival Dalia Mabrouk |
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| Cairo
Film Festival Growing TBS Contributing Editor Janet Fine |
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Departments
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| Reviews edited by Amos Owen Thomas |
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| In
the News: Egyptian Media Waxes and Wanes in Its Attacks Against Al-Jazeera |
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TBS is published by the Adham Center for Television Journalism, the American University in Cairo
E-mail: TBS@aucegypt.edu