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April/May 2006

How do you hire staff for your radio station?

I don’t usually resort to print media to announce a vacancy. I prefer to use our radio waves instead. Elie Rahmeh
Fame FM, Lebanon
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Sound engineering

Regional TV stations have made some impressive technological strides over recent years but audio, for the most part, remains unchanged.
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Spotlight: HDTV, Outside Broadcasting

Outside Broadcast (OB) companies are building for the future and going HD.
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Arab satellite channels and challenges ahead

The recent remarkable growth in Arab satellite channels have given rise to many questions. For decades, state-owned media were considered the only reference in the Arab World.
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Interview - CNN’s Jim Clancy

From flying with the late Yasser Arafat on his private jet, to interviewing Ariel Sharon as he declared a siege on Beirut, Jim Clancy boasts a 30 year career in journalism spanning from the Middle East to Africa and beyond.
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Hannibal fails to conquer

Seated in his lavish office, the owner of Hannibal TV, Larbi Nasra, seems oblivious to criticism of the first private television station in Tunisia.

Ad rates may be down, but who’s counting anyway?

Advertising rates on major free-to-air (FTA) broadcasters in the Arab world dropped by as much as 30 percent in 2005, according to research firm Arab Advisors Group.
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Learning film... In two days?

Dov Simens claims to be the world’s greatest film instructor but at times, he sounds more like a ruthless drill sergeant.
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Covering the cartoons

One of the more interesting aspects of the controversy surrounding the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad by Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten is the realization that no medium today can assume it addresses a circumscribed audience.
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The money behind the show

“The media in the Arab World has really proven itself in the last five years,” said the soft-spoken UAE minister, Sultan Saeed Al Mansoori, as he opened Dubai’s annual cable and satellite trade show swarmed by microphone jousting reporters.
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MEB to announce Awards Jury in May
The Middle East Broadcasters Association will announce the jury members for the first annual MEB Awards on May 15, a list that “promises to be a directory of who’s who in Arab broadcasting industry,” say the organizers.
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Interview - Nilesat CEO Amine Basyouni

“I am suffering from the Egyptian government!”
MEB Journal Managing Editor, Habib Battah, spoke to the forever joyful Nilesat CEO at this year’s Cabsat trade show in March.
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