Rotana (television)
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Rotana is a series of free television channels broadcast terrestrially in Saudi Arabia and on satellite television for the Arab World and the Arab Diaspora. The channels are part of the Rotana Group a big pan-Arab entertainment group.
Channels
General
- Khalijia (General Entertainment)
The channel was launched initially as a musical channel broadcasting mainly music from the Gulf region. Later on, however, Khalijia became a general viewing channel with mostly films, television series and lifestyle programming.
- Al Fadaiyyah al Lubnaniyyah
"Al Fadaiyyah al Lubnaniyyah" was part of the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation and its satellite wing with LBC broadcasting within the Lebanese territory. However according to the court ruling, "Al Fadaiyah" became the full ownership of Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal with minority interest for News Corp owned by Rupert Murdoch and independent from LBC Lebanese network of channels.
Films
- Fox (Middle East)
Launched in 2008, this was originally named Fox Series or simply Fox until February 29, 2011 and was a Middle Eastern version of the American Fox Channel. The channel was relaunched as Fox on March 1, 2011.
FX Middle East was launched in Summer 2011 (between June and July) as a new member of the FOX Middle East Family (Fox (Middle East) & Fox Movies (Middle East)).
A channel broadcasting American films 24 hours a day based on films produced by Fox.
- Rotana Cinema (Movies Channel)
This is a movie channel established in 2005 that broadcasts exclusively old and contemporary films in Arabic, becoming the most successful and watched channel of the network.
- Zaman (Classic Movies Channel)
A specialty channel that broadcasted initially Arabic classical films in black and white 24 hours a day. Another specialty channel Rotana Tarab broadcast classical Arabic music round the clock. The Rotana administration decided however to scrap the Tarab musical station and merging it into Zaman such that the latter started broadcasting a mixture of classical Arabic films and music in its general programming.
- Aflam (Films Channel)
This channel has been launched by Rotana Group on the 25th of April 2012. It mainly broadcasts Arabic and international movies.
Music
- Rotana Clip (Music Clips Channel)
- Rotana Mousica (Music Channel)
- Nagham (Music Channel)
Religion
- Al-Resala (Islamic Religious Channel)
Availability
Rotana Cinema, Rotana Music, Rotana Clip, Rotana Classic, Rotana Khalijiya, Rotana Masriya and Al-Resala are available on MyTV in the Americas since early 2012.