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Bahrain Sports is a national TV channel offering various sports events in Arabic. Al Maaref TV is a religious TV channel founded in 2007. An opposition news station, LuaLua TV operates from London, though it is blocked in Bahrain. [2] Television in Bahrain began in 1973, broadcasting five-hours per day. [3]
VH1 and MTV2 (the national channels, until 2003–2004 MTV2 used to be just about the same like MTV1 and the Parliament Channel used to be titled MTV3 and was intended for the minorities living in Macedonia. Back in 2003–2004 MTV3 transformed into MTV2 and MTV2 was retitled as Parliament Channel, having broadcast only the National Parliament ...
A second channel (Channel 55) opened in December 1981. [5] BTV has produced many Bahraini-created and produced shows, the most prominent being youth shows such as Chat with Batelco, and Hala Bahrain. Bahrain TV was criticised for the way it handled the 2011 Bahrain uprising , during which it ran a campaign to name, punish and shame those who ...
Many of the Indian associations are under the umbrella group of the Co-ordination Committee of Indian Associations (CCIA), which coordinates events for the Indian community such as the Indian Republic Day. [2] The CCIA also helped to provide relief for Indian workers in tragedies such as the Bahrain boat disaster, which killed 17 Indians. [2]
Bahrain Telecommunication Company, trading as Batelco, is Bahrain's sole Internet service provider. In 2015, there were an estimated 1.29 million internet user , a penetration of 96.4%. Most of the press is privately owned and is not subject to censorship as long as it refrains from criticizing the ruling family .
The list is a list of television channels and stations in the Arab World, as well as Arab-based Western television channels. The majority, if not all, of these channels, are chiefly in Arabic . Africa
Birth registration of Bahrain is available from 1976, death registration started in 1990. Between 1976 and 2011 the number of baby births roughly doubled but the birth rate of babies decreased from 32 to 13 per 1,000. The death rate of Bahrain (1.9 per 1,000 human beings in 2011) is among the lowest in the world.
Radio Bahrain was established in 1955. The Bahrain Radio and Television Corporation (BRTC), a state-owned entity, was set up in 1971, [7] and runs Radio Bahrain as well as Bahrain TV. BRTC became an independent body in January 1993. [7] Its radio broadcasts are usually in Arabic and also in English.