| 29 Jan 2010 |
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Annual report of Higher Committee for Co-ordination between Arab Satellite Channels presented
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Director General of the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) Slaheddine Maaoui, on Thursday, took stock of satellite television broadcasting in the Arab world and stressed its evolution and mechanisms for strengthening it.
He pointed out that presentation of this report for the first time in Tunisia, which houses ASBU, reflects the consideration for the position granted Tunisia by this Arab institution, under the impetus of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, strongly convinced as it is of this institution's key role in ensuring co-ordination between Arab joint action mechanisms in the audiovisual field.
The report, he said, proposes an analytic reading of tables and graphs on activities of the different Arab satellite channels which have reached the number 600, praising, in this regard, the unprecedented change experienced by the television broadcasting landscape in the Arab world which ranks first among regional groupings in number of channels.
He pointed to the document providing for the organisation of satellite broadcasting which, he specified, is not of a binding nature as it has not yet been adopted by most of parties within the Union.
Figures included in the report, he underlined, show the private sector's rising role on the Arab television scene, and the regression of the role of the public sector, adding that most of the private channels are entertainment channels.
According to the same report, private channels are called upon to enrich contents of their programmes to face up to competition of foreign channels broadcasting in Arabic.
He noted, in this regard, that some constraints are imposed to Arab channels by foreign sides.
© Agence Tunis Afrique Presse 2010
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