TRT Arabi

TRT Arabi partners with Bosnia’s IPTV network of BH Telecom

18 June 2019

International news platform TRT Arabi is expanding its global distribution with Bosnia’s IPTV network of BH Telecom. TRT Arabi is now available to 200.000 BH Telecom’s subscribers, airing on channel 11 in the news channel category.

BH Telecom is the leading telecom operator in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has provided high quality and the most up-to-date services in the field of telecommunications. The uniqueness, tradition, comprehensive service offer, fast business development and social responsibility has made BH Telecom recognizable in the telecommunications market.

TRT Arabi HD, part of the Turkish Broadcasting Corporation (TRT), is an official organization broadcasting locally and internationally, from Turkey to the world, and includes several stations and channels covering all areas and interests.

Furkan Han, TRT World’s Head of Global Digital & Satellite Distribution & Partnership, stated that “TRT Arabi will be our second channel to be launched on BH Telecom after our first, TRT World. Our partnership with BH Telecom is an important step in growing our footprint, not only have we managed to increase the distribution of TRT Arabi but we are happy to have managed to add BH Telecom as one of our partners around the globe. Our distribution is still expanding and soon TRT Arabi will be available worldwide”

Elvedin Kanafija, BH Telecom’s Acting Executive Director of Business Development, stated: “We are pleased to have expanded our cooperation with TRT World and enriched our TV lineup with another quality news content offered by TRT Arabi.”

(Source: TRT World press release)

TRT relaunches Arabic TV channel

16 January 2019

TRT, Turkey’s public broadcaster, has relaunched its Arabic-language TV channel. TRT Arabi takes many cues from TRT WORLD, the English-language TV channel that went on air in 2015. Indeed, its director of news and programmes is Resul Serdar Atas, formerly director of TRT WORLD. On launch day [7 January], Atas tweeted: “This is a big day for TRT family by launching TRT Arabi to cover the world’s news and current affairs, especially the Arab world. Today’s launch of TRT Arabi is the result of days of hard work from our dedicated journalists and experts, to be with you.”

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The launch of TRT Arabi appears to be part of a modernisation strategy across TRT networks, with the new TRT international logo – first seen on TRT WORLD – being used on Arabi, Haber [News], Turk, Kurdi, Spor, and Avaz, and TRT’s main national channel, TRT1.

The revamped Arabic service (previously known as TRT Arabic) has a similar look and feel both on air and in its online presence to TRT WORLD. It has bureaux in Baghdad, Jerusalem, Tehran, Cairo, London, Moscow, Washington, Beirut and Oman.