[HCDX] Saudi Arabia: Permission for Private Radio Soon

["Zacharias Liangas " <greekdx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Saudi Arabia: Permission for Private Radio Soon
	Arab News - 12/03/2007
 http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093145958
 
(MENAFN - Arab News) JEDDAH, 12 March 2007 - Saudi Arabia will 
soon allow the private sector to invest in the information sector, 
especially in radio stations. The Ministry of Culture and Information has 
completed a study on the project in association with the Saudi Arabian 
General Investment Authority.

"We are now in the final stage of announcing how such investments 
can be made, especially in radio stations," Culture and Information 
Minister Iyad Madani told reporters after inaugurating the new facilities 
at the television center in Jeddah late Saturday night.

"The ministry will set out a regulatory framework for private 
participation," Madani explained. The ministry has received several 
applications for opening new radio stations. "We will review these 
applications after the system of granting licenses, now under way, has 
been completed," he said.

Madani said that the launch of Saudi Arabian Television's fifth channel 
would take place in the near future. At present the television has four 
channels: Channel One (Arabic), Channel Two (English) and the Al-
Ekhbariya and Sports Channels.

He said steps would be taken to receive programs of all Saudi satellite 
channels without installing dish antennas. "The new television center in 
Jeddah is part of the ministry's project to establish and upgrade 
television stations all over the Kingdom," he told reporters.

Madani said the center has been equipped with advanced facilities. He 
emphasized the need for improving Saudi Arabia's information 
agencies against its growing role in the comity of nations.

"We are now in the process of making an archive for Saudi television 
and radio programs that date back for many decades," he said, adding 
that the project would cost about SR80 million.

He said the archive system would help related agencies to locate the 
program they need fast and without problems. 

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