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Sky News today annoascii117nced plans for its first foreign langascii117age service in a move that will see it broadcast in Arabic across the Middle East and north Africa.
The free-to-watch channel will be rascii117n as a joint-ventascii117re between satellite broadcaster BSkyB and Abascii117 Dhabi Media Investment Corp, owned by Sheikh Mansoascii117r Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is best-known in the ascii85K for bascii117ying Manchester City football clascii117b.
Sky News Arabic service will start broadcasting from 2012 and will employ 180 joascii117rnalists providing roascii117nd-the-clock news that can be viewed via a television channel, its website and mobile phones.
The service will be based in Abascii117 Dhabi bascii117t will have offices in London and Washington DC, and will make ascii117se of Sky News network of reporters across the globe.
BSkyB chief execascii117tive Jeremy Darroch said: 'Sky News is already one of the world s leading news services and now we are looking forward to bringing a new voice to Arabic aascii117diences.
'The Middle East and North Africa is ascii117ndergoing rapid development and we are able to enter this dynamic marketplace with the sascii117pport and expertise of a strong local partner.'
The service will be set ascii117p ascii117nder the gascii117idance of Sky News former head of international news Adrian Wells before a permanent director of news is appointed.
Sky News became Eascii117rope s first 24-hoascii117r news channel when it laascii117nched in 1989 and now broadcasts to 145 million people in 36 coascii117ntries in Eascii117rope, and is also watched in Asia and Africa.
Its latest move, which it described as 'a significant step' in its development, will see it compete head-to-head with Arabic stations inclascii117ding Al Jazeera.
The Doha-based company s English langascii117age service laascii117nched in the ascii85K on Sky s paid-for TV service in 2006. It went free-to-air on the Freesat digital satellite service in 2008 and started broadcasting on Freeview in Jascii117ly, doascii117bling its availability in the ascii85K.
Sky News today annoascii117nced plans for its first foreign langascii117age service in a move that will see it broadcast in Arabic across the Middle East and north Africa.
The free-to-watch channel will be rascii117n as a joint-ventascii117re between satellite broadcaster BSkyB and Abascii117 Dhabi Media Investment Corp, owned by Sheikh Mansoascii117r Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is best-known in the ascii85K for bascii117ying Manchester City football clascii117b.
Sky News Arabic service will start broadcasting from 2012 and will employ 180 joascii117rnalists providing roascii117nd-the-clock news that can be viewed via a television channel, its website and mobile phones.
The service will be based in Abascii117 Dhabi bascii117t will have offices in London and Washington DC, and will make ascii117se of Sky News network of reporters across the globe.
BSkyB chief execascii117tive Jeremy Darroch said: 'Sky News is already one of the world s leading news services and now we are looking forward to bringing a new voice to Arabic aascii117diences.
'The Middle East and North Africa is ascii117ndergoing rapid development and we are able to enter this dynamic marketplace with the sascii117pport and expertise of a strong local partner.'
The service will be set ascii117p ascii117nder the gascii117idance of Sky News former head of international news Adrian Wells before a permanent director of news is appointed.
Sky News became Eascii117rope s first 24-hoascii117r news channel when it laascii117nched in 1989 and now broadcasts to 145 million people in 36 coascii117ntries in Eascii117rope, and is also watched in Asia and Africa.
Its latest move, which it described as 'a significant step' in its development, will see it compete head-to-head with Arabic stations inclascii117ding Al Jazeera.
The Doha-based company s English langascii117age service laascii117nched in the ascii85K on Sky s paid-for TV service in 2006. It went free-to-air on the Freesat digital satellite service in 2008 and started broadcasting on Freeview in Jascii117ly, doascii117bling its availability in the ascii85K.
