Iraq: Al-Zarwaa TV no longer broadcasting on Nilesat

[BGonaSTICK]

BBC Monitoring notes that the Al-Zawraa television channel is no longer broadcasting via the Nilesat 101 satellite following reports that the station’s broadcasts had been terminated by the operators of the satellite.

It was reported by the Cairo-based Al-Jumhuriyah newspaper on 25 February that Al-Zawraa’s transmissions had been shut down due to “interference and jamming” the channel had been causing to other broadcasters.

Al-Zawraa, a pro-Sunni television station owned by leader of the Sunni Arab Front for Reconciliation and Liberation, Mishan Juburi, which shows programming comprising video footage of attacks on coalition forces, was banned from operating in Iraq in November 2006 by the Iraqi government for “inciting violence and murder”.

The station continues to broadcast on the Arabsat (Badr) satellite at 26 degrees east (11747 MHz vertical polarization, SR 27500 FEC 3/4).

Source: BBC Monitoring research 26 Feb 07 via Media Network Weblog.