Al Mayadeen
| Al Mayadeen | |
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| Launched | 11 June 2012 |
| Network | Al Mayadeen Satellite Media Network |
| Slogan | Reality As It Is |
| Country | Lebanon |
| Language | Arabic |
| Headquarters | Beirut |
| Website | Al Mayadeen TV |
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| Satellite | |
| Arabsat | Channel 5C |
| Eutelsat | Channel 25C |
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| Al Mayadeen Live | LiveStation link |
Al Mayadeen (Arabic: الميادين ; English: The Plazas) is a pan-Arabist satellite television channel launched on 11 June 2012 in Beirut, Lebanon. Its programming is predominantly news. It has news reporters in most Arab countries. In the pan-Arab TV news market it competes against Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya, and also against Sky News Arabia and BBC Arabic Television. At its founding in 2012, many of Al-Mayadeen's senior staff were formerly correspondents and editors at Al Jazeera.
The channel is part of Al Mayadeen satellite media network, including a production company, a radio station, a website, an advertising company and other media-related projects.
Besides the headquarters in Beirut, Al Mayadeen has a wide-ranging news network and three regional offices, one in Tunisia, another in Cairo with three reporters and a big studio, and a third in Tehran.
Ghassan bin Jiddo is the head of the board of directors and program director of the channel. He is the former head of Al Jazeera’s Iran and Beirut offices and a former talk show host in the channel. He resigned from the Qatar-based Al Jazeera in 2011, criticizing its reporting of the Syrian civil war. Jiddo seemingly accused Al Jazeera of deviating from "professional broadcasting standards", emphasizing that Al Mayadeen would remain objective and unbiased. Nayef Krayem, the owner of the Lebanon-based Al Ittihad TV and former director of the Hezbollah-affiliated Al Manar TV, was designated as the general manager of the channel, but he resigned one month before its launch.
The staff of the channel include Lebanese journalists such as Sami Kulaib, Ali Hashem, the former Al Jazeera war correspondent, who resigned from the Qatari channel for claims it refused to broadcast footage of militants on the Lebanese Syrian borders in the early days of the Syrian uprising, Zahi Wehbe,Lina Zahreddine, Lana Mudawwar, Muhammad Alloush, Ahmad Abu Ali and Dina Zarkat. Additionally, two Syrian journalists, Ramia Ibrahim and Futoun Abbasi, and two Palestinian journalists Kamal Khalaf and Ahmad Sobh as well as Yemeni Mona Safwan are also among its staff. Like Jiddo, most of the channel's staff are the former Al Jazeera correspondents and editors.George Galloway, a former British MP, is a presenter for the channel.
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