2010-06-16 - Magharebia - The Arab world's private satellite channels do not offer programming that serves the interests of young people, said participants at a Tuesday (June 15th) conference held by the Tunis-based Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU)...

Arab broadcasting forum focuses on addressing region's youth

May 12, 2010 - kuwait times - Kuwait is currently studying a plan to launch its own satellite, according to a senior Ministry of Information (MoI) official. The 'KuwaitSat' project is presently the subject of negotiation with another country, which the official did not name. The plan was revealed during the opening ceremony for the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) forum...

Bahrain: Open Skies - The Laws And Regulations Guiding Middle East Satellite Broadcasting

12 March 2010 - mondaq.com - Satellite broadcasting can deliver clear, uniform signals across the entire Middle East region. However, the laws and regulations guiding the industry can be unclear and their boundaries blurred...

Newtec Picks Up Digital Studio Awards in Dubai

March 10, 2010 - TMCnet - Newtec (News - Alert) officials have announced that the company picked up a top honor at the Digital Studio awards evening at The Westin Hotel in Dubai. Alongside partners ASBU and Arabsat, Newtec won the “Most Innovative Project of the Year” honor, with its Multimedia Exchange Network over Satellite content exchange network cited...

Digital Studio Awards honour industry's top talent
 
Digital Production ME - Mar 4, 2010 - More than 500 industry identities descended on The Westin Hotel in Dubai last night to attend the sixth annual Digital Studio Awards...

Newtec — An Honor-Filled Evening...

March 04, 2010 - Satnews.com - Newtec announced that at the Digital Studio awards evening at The Westin Hotel in Dubai, with partners ASBU and Arabsat, the Company won the coveted award for the “Most Innovative Project of the Year” with its MENOS content exchange network...

The cable guy

Mar 4, 2010 - Etisalat’s E-Vision service has emerged as one of the largest pay TV platforms in the MENA region. CEO Humaid Rashid Sahoo tells John Parnell about the company’s plans for the future...

Newtec, ASBU, Arabsat Sign Contract to Expand MENOS TV and Radio Exchange Network

March 02, 2010 - Newtec (News - Alert), a Belgium-based manufacturer of broadcast modulator technology, has announced new partners of the MENOS content exchange network...

MENOS Expansion Announced

February 25, 2010 | Satellite Today - Newtec, Arabsat and the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) are expanding the Multimedia Exchange Network over Satellite (MENOS), Newtec announced Feb. 24...

Newtec ASBU-ARABSAT — MENOS — Ecstatic About Exceptional Expansion

February 24, 2010 - Satnews Daily - The Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU), Arabsat and Newtec will be able to provide additional TV/Radio contribution and exchange services to their existing users and facilitate services expansion to additional customers on this successful and growing network...

Annual report of Higher Committee for Co-ordination between Arab Satellite Channels presented

29 January 2010 - zawya.com - 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.

Rapport 2009 de l’Union des radios des Etats arabes: Repli du rôle du secteur public

INFOTUNISIE –  29 janvier 2010 - Le rapport du Comité supérieur de coordination entre les chaines satellitaires arabes au titre de l’année 2009, la diffusion satellitaire dans le monde arabe et les mécanisme de son renforcement, ont été les centres d’intérêts de la conférence, donnée jeudi à Tunis, par M. Slaheddine Maaoui, directeur général de l’Union des radios des Etats arabes (ASBU)...

League of Arab States launches first digital journalism training project 
 
25/01/2010 - International Journalists' Network - The League of Arab States recently announced the launch of its first training program which aims to improve participants' skills in digital journalism...

"Waves for the Mediterranean" to serve dialogue between two shores

TUNIS, Jan. 19, 2010 (TAP) - As part of the Permanent Mediterranean Audiovisual Conference (CoPeAM) Radio Committee meeting, a news briefing was held on Tuesday afternoon in Tunis, on the launch of the new radio co-operation programme called "Waves for the Mediterranean."...

“Waves for the Mediterranean”, a new radio cooperation project

TUNISIAONLINENEWS- January 18, 2010 - On the occasion of the meeting of the Radio Commission of the “Permanent Conference of the Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators” (COPEAM), Mrs. Jullie Royer charged with the mission and Mr. Robert Kudelka, the chairman of the radio commission at COPEAM will hold a press conference in Tunis on the launch of a new Mediterranean radio cooperation project dubbed “waves for the Mediterranean”...

Tunisie – Télévision : La Télévision numérique terrestre (TNT) arrive, les TV LCD et Plasma sans TNT seront interdit à la vente
 
La mise en place de la «Télévision numérique terrestre» (TNT) suit son cours en Tunisie avec l’approbation du projet de loi portant sur le crédit de financement, entre l'Office de la télédiffusion et la société «Thomson Grass Valley France»...

SUDAN TO BE FIRST ARAB COUNTRY TO USE MENOS SATELLITE NEWS EXCHANGE SYSTEM    
 
KHARTOUM, Jan 8 (NNN-SUNA) -- A delegation of the Arab States Broadcasting Union, headed by its Director of Engineering, Abdul-Rahim Suleiman, has announced that Sudan will be the first country to benefit from the network of the Multi-Media Exchange of News over Satellite (MENOS) in the Arab World.

New tech to revolutionise Mena HD-savvy residents

07/01/2010 - IABM, the organisation representing broadcast and media technology suppliers worldwide, has valued the broadcast and media sector at more than $25bn, with the Middle East continuing to be a key region...

CES: Dish Unveils (Another) TV Everywhere
Will the real TV Everywhere please stand up?

January 6, 2010, 4:35 PM ET - For months, Time Warner blitzed the airwaves and the press with the name “TV Everywhere” to describe efforts to make television shows available online only to people who subscribe to cable- or satellite-TV services...

Droit de retransmission, CAN 2010: TV7 à la merci d’Al Jazeera !

Lundi 04 Janvier 2010
Pour l'édition angolaise de la Coupe d'Afrique des nations, la chaîne publique tunisienne est en pourparlers avec Al Jazeera, nouveau détenteur des droits TV de la CAN...

Digital Broadcast power list: 10-9
10. Slaheddine Maaoui, Director general, Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU)

by Digital Production Middle East Staff on Jan 2, 2010
Slaheddine Maaoui holds arguably the most politically influential position in the Middle East broadcast industry. Originally a journalist and editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper...