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In 2003, Al Waleed increased his stake to 100 percent, after initially acquiring a 48 percent stake in 2002. He developed Rotana Music Channel as a 24-hour free-to-air service for Rotana artists. This was followed by Rotana 2, Rotana Clip, augmented with SMS , and Rotana 3 for classical Arab music, followed by a movie channel.
Al Waleed bin Talal was born in Jeddah on 7 March 1955 [22] [23] to Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz and Mona El Solh. [24] [25] His father was Saudi Arabia's finance minister during the early 1960s, [26] before he went into exile due to his advocacy for political reform. [27] Al Waleed's paternal grandparents were King Abdulaziz and Munaiyir.
MBC Group (Arabic: مجموعة إم بي سي, romanized: Majmūʿat ʾIm Bī Sī), formerly known as Middle East Broadcasting Center (مركز تلفزيون الشرق الأوسط, Markaz Tilifizyūn al-Sharq al-ʾAwsaṭ), is a Saudi media conglomerate based in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Waleed Al Ibrahim was born in 1962 [5] and raised in Saudi Arabia. [6] [7] He has eight brothers. [8]Two of his elder brothers, Abdulaziz and Khalid, are businessmen investing in real estate in the U.S. [9] His sister, Al Jawhara Al Ibrahim, was one of at least thirteen wives of King Fahd. [10]
Khalid ibn al-Walid (592–642), one of the two famous Arab generals of the Rashidun army during the Muslim conquests of the 7th Century; Al-Walid I (668–715), Umayyad caliph who ruled from 705 to 715; Al-Walid II (709–744), Umayyad caliph who ruled from 743 until 744; Muslim ibn al-Walid (748–823), poet
Then it was sold in 1991 [6] for $20 million to Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal who renamed the yacht Kingdom 5KR. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] The yacht's latest name stems from the Prince's investment company, Kingdom Holding Company , his lucky number (5), and his children's initials ("K" and "R").
Al-Arab's regional competitors were Qatari-owned Al Jazeera and Saudi-government-owned Al Arabiya, along with BSkyB's Sky News Arabia. [7] In a January 2012 interview, Al-Waleed described Al Jazeera as the "masses channel" while implying that Al Arabiya is the "government channel" among the two main news channels in the Middle East.
The KHC consists of a select team of experienced investment specialists directed by its founder and chairman, Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal [2] and chief executive officer, Eng. Talal Ibrahim Al Maiman. The company describes itself as a diversified investment company, whose main interests are financial services , real estate , tourism and ...