Ajyal TV
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Country | Saudi Arabia (first days of broadcast in 2009) Arab world |
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Headquarters | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
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Language(s) | Arabic |
Picture format | 480i (2010-2014, pillarboxed 16:9 SDTV on YouTube streams) 576i (2014-2018, 4:3 - 16:9 SDTV on YouTube streams) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Saudi Broadcasting Authority |
History | |
Launched | 21 September 2009 |
Closed | 17 February 2018 |
Replaced by | MBC Kuwait |
Ajyal TV/TV5 Saudi Ajyal (lit. "generations") was a free-to-air children's television channel owned by the Saudi Broadcasting Authority. It was launched on Eid al-Fitr in 2009. The channel offered a variety of educational and entertaining programs for children of all ages, including cartoons, live-action shows (which are usually in-house productions), in addition to national holidays of Saudi Arabia[1] and religious programs (usually in the month of Ramadan).
History
[edit]As of January 2024, not much is known about the channel's beginning. The test broadcast beginning was around very late June to very early July.[2] What is known, however, is that the channel launched on Eid al-Fitr of 2009.
In 2014, the channel rebranded with a brand new look. The channel closed in 2018 because the president of the Saudi Broadcasting Authority wanted to merge Ajyal TV with Saudi 1.
In house programming
[edit]The channel has presented and produced many programs. A partial list of them:
- Asdiqa Ajyal: is the main program of the channel through a daily live broadcast at 5pm which was daily except Friday and Saturday. The program offers a variety of paragraphs in which information, benefit, guidance, advice, fun and direct communication with its child viewers.
- Weekend: It is a weekly program that overlooks viewers every Saturday at 10AM live, presented by Abdul Rahman Al-Zahrani, Ghadeer Al-Balushi, Joanna Talal and Fawaz Al-Qabi.
- Win with Rabih: A program of competitions and challenges between two teams of the public, presented by Fawaz Al-Qabi and Ghadeer Al-Balushi.
References
[edit]- ^ إعلان إحتفالية قناة أجيال بالبيعة الثامنة (in Arabic), retrieved 2023-12-20
- ^ "قناة أجيال.. هل نفرح إذن؟". مدونة فهد بن فيصل الحجي (in Arabic). 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2023-12-15.