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TV broadcasting development


Daily news exchanges

Weekly news and programs exchanges

Monthly programs exchanges

 

  Daily news exchanges

Arab News Exchange

The Multi-origin Arab TV news transmissions are items offered by participating members in the three daily news exchanges to all ASBU members through the hotswitching system coordinated by the Algiers-based Arab News and Programmes Exchange Centre. The three daily news exchanges take place according to the following time-schedule:

News

Winter (GMT)

Summer (GMT)

ASBU-News-1 10.15-10.45 11.00-11.30
ASBU-News-2 15.00-15.30 15.45-16.15
ASBU-News-3 18.15-18.45 18.15-18.45

International News Exchanges which transmission is carried out by Algiers Centre

Six Eurovision Exchanges of news items produced by EBU members (European Broadcasting Union) and broadcast according to the following time-schedule 

EVN

Winter (GMT)

Summer (GMT)

EM-Rerun 09:00-09:25 08:00-08:30
EVN-Y 09:30-09:50 08:30-09:00
EVN-0 11:00-11:30 10:00-10:30
EVN-W 14:15-14:45 13:15-13:45
EVN-1 16:00-16:30 15:00-15:30
EVN-2 17:30-18:00 16:30-17:00

 

One ASIAVISION news package produced by ABU members (ASIAN BROADCASTING UNION), scheduled as follows:

Winter: GMT Summer: GMT
08:30-09:00 09:00-09:30


One ERN-M regional exchange produced by north and south mediterranean TV organization.

The package coutains various economic, cultural and environmental reports.
It runs on Monday through Friday of every week at the following time-period.

Day

Winter (GMT)

Summer (GMT)

Monday through Friday 15:35-15:55 14:35-14:55


The Inter-Arab TV News exchange history has gone through several stages: 

  • 1970 : Air-freight carriage

  • 1985 : Launching of the Arab Satellite and beginning of Arab daily news exchange. 

  • 1987 : the Algiers based Arab News and Programme Exchange Centre enters into operation 

  • 1990 : Leasing a TV Channel on Arabsat (Transponder 23) for an hourly exchange of news and programmes on a hotswitching system

  • 1992 : starting of the daily editorial conferences through the 4-wire audio circuit. 

  • 1995 : The Centre starts applying the Video-Dat System- This system sends the text data through the video signal of the ASBU leased Transponder.

  • 1997 : Leasing a new second generation ARABSAT 2B channel (transponder 13), whereby two TV exchanges could be carried out at the same time. 

  • 2000 : January : beginning of unilateral Transmissions between ASBU members.

  • May : starting the use of services provided by the VSAT system, such as :automatic reservation, audio conferencing, telephone connection, exchange of data and information 

  • July : substituting transponder 19 and part of transponder 17 for transponder 13 on ARABSAT 2B and inaugurating digital broadcasting.

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  Weekly news and programs exchanges
  

Two Sport Packages

  Each exchange package contains sport news items produced by Arab TV netwoks and broadcast on saturdays and mondays as follows:

Saturday : GMT Monday: GMT
12:00-13:00 12:00-12:30

Economic Exchange

  This package contains economic items offered by participating members. This package takes place every saturday as follows :

Winter time: GMT Summer time: GMT
13.00-13.30 14.00-14.30

"Sahra Arabiya" (Arab Evening Show)

  This is a show produced by ASBU members to help the viewers get acquainted with some aspects of the cultural, artistic, social and touristic life in the member country concerned. Focus is laid in this programme on information, education and entertainment related matters. It runs on wednesdays, (in both winter and summer) from 12:00 to 13:00 GMT and lasts between 60 and 75 minutes.

The Cultural Package: CULTURAL LIGHTS

  It is a weekly cultural package through which cultural reports are exchanged via ASBU leased transponder on Arabsat.

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Monthly Programmes Exchanges

The exchange of items

  It is a monthly exchange of items about historical and touristic sites and new discoveries executed on ASBU leased transponder on Arabsat.

The exchange of songs (clips)

  It is a monthly exchange of songs (clips) produced by ASBU members and transmitted via leased transponder on Arabsat.

 

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