07 April 2003

Middle East TV on Broadband If you have broadband, you can try a site in The Netherlands called The War Television Channels. It's a portal to all that's available online from the Middle East. It's very comprehensive, and includes the new Arabic-language channel Alalalam, which comes from Iran but can be received terrestrially in parts of Iraq. It has scrolling news in English at the bottom of the screen. Unfortunately the feed is only 50 Kbps, but it's quite viewable at the default screen size. BTW you can also watch Dutch TV via this site. They also have live Baghdad video streams, some with sound! 8:15:21 PM     comment on this entry []

Iraq Satellite Channel Well, after nearly 16 hours off the air, the Iraq Satellite Channel re-appeared just after 1600 UTC. By chance I was doing a routine check and saw a still picture and logo, and after a couple of minutes the news came on. I put a couple of screenshots on the main page. But the transmission lasted barely an hour before it went off again. It looks like the uplink is being blocked by the coalition. The picture is replaced by irregular horizontal colour bars. 8:04:48 PM     comment on this entry []

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