Jordan’s Broadcast Industry Under the Test!

Here is an issue that has been been discussed lately on the Jordanian blogosphere.

Up until recent years, Jordan’s broadcast industry was entirly run and managed by the government of Jordan.Though since the dawn of the century Jordan has witnessed the opening of a plethura of private radio stations mostly focusing on music and entertainment, but we haven’t had good quality private television broadcast in Jordan until today. Mohammad Alayyan- a Jordanian entreprenuer, and the owner of Alghad newspaper- decided to change that reality and launch what hopefully will be the first good quality and up to high standards private TV station in Jordan known as ATV (Alghad TV).

ATV was scheduled to launch on August 1st, 2007, yet something mysterious happenned that suspended the long awaited TV station. On August 1st, and as ATV’s Mohammad Alayyan and its managing director Muhannad Alkhatib were holding a press conference to officially announce the launch of ATV, the Audio-Visual Commission of Jordan informed them that the channel still needs to complete some financial and technical documents in order to be allowed to launch!.

Jordan has been wondering eversince that happened, why on that particular day did the Audio-Visual Commission choose to inform ATV with its technical and financial incompletion??!.

Alot of rumers have come out about insiders from ATV wanted to hinder the broadcast! and internal corruption prevailing within it!, yet we actually don’t know where the truth lies!

I visited ATV last week and learnt that all the employees were given a 10-day paid leave until September 1st, hoping by then the suspension would have been revoked!

here is what some of the Jordanian bloggers had to say about this issue…

ATV still not allowed to broadcast
Why did ATV miss it’s launch yesterday?
The Audio-visual Commission

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