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The mass media in Iraq includes print, radio, television, and online services. Iraq became the first Arab country to broadcast from a TV station, in 1954 [1]. As of 2020, more than 100 radio stations and 150 television stations were broadcasting to Iraq in Arabic, English, Kurdish, Turkmen, and Neo-Aramaic.
A second TV channel was established on 30 July 1972 broadcasting on channel 7 in the Baghdad area. [5] The channel was renamed Youth Channel ( Qanaat Al-Shabaab ) on 17 July 1993 and broadcast subtitled Western movies and music videos before the 2003 invasion.
government-owned TV stations are operated by the publicly funded Iraqi Public Broadcasting Service; private broadcast media are mostly linked to political, ethnic, or religious groups; satellite TV is available to an estimated 70% of viewers and many of the broadcasters are based abroad (2007); [1] ~21 stations (2004). Radios: ~4.6 million (1997).
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Baghdad [note 1] (Arabic: بغداد, Baghdād) is the capital and largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris in the central part of the country. With a population exceeding 7 million, it ranks among the most populous cities in the Middle East and Arab World and forms 22% of the country's population.
In 1943, the Barzani chief Mustafa Barzani began [22] raiding Iraqi police stations in Kurdistan, which led the Baghdad government to deploy 30,000 troops to the region. The Iraqi Kurdish leadership fled to Iran in 1945.
It has its main office in Sulaymaniyah, Nalia Media Corporation (NMC) and also has offices in Erbil, Baghdad, Brussels, Paris, London, Washington, and Diyarbakir. NMC consists of: NRT HD: A satellite news channel established in 2010 that broadcasts in Sorani and Badini Kurdish. NRT2: An arts and entertainment channel launched in 2012.
Rojava TV – based in Syrian Kurdistan; Ronahî TV – based in Syrian Kurdistan; Minbij TV – local TV of Manbij; JIN TV – Kurdish feminist channel by the Newa Women's Foundation and dedicated to Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez who were murdered in Paris in 2013, assassinated by Turkish National Intelligence Organization agents, in the Triple murder of Kurdish activists ...