The Saudi-based Rotana Holding specializes in audio and video production and distribution; licensing; television and radio broadcasting and is owned solely by HH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

Rotana’s TV network was launched in 2003 and expanded to include seven free-to-air TV channels: Music, Clip, Tarab, Khalijiyah, Zaman, Cinema and the Lebanon-based LBC, by 2009. Rotana supplies content to Arabic satellite channels and possesses 40% of all Egyptian films ever made, as of 2009, and one of the largest Arabic music libraries in the world.

The group broadcasts outside the MENA region, through direct-to-home television, IPTV, mobile and news media distributors. It produces and airs its own TV programs on its channels, and produces and distributes its own music recordings in digital format. The group also owns Rotana Magazine and the Lebanon-based Rotana Café chain..

Rotana launched Saudi Arabia’s first movie theatre, in June 2009, at the King Fahad Cultural Centre in a Riyadh, where it aired its own and Saudi Arabia’s first film, Menahi.