Arab TV rolling news channels
Francis BALLE - Professor (université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas)
Jean-Marie COTTERET - Professor (université Paris 1)
Bernard VALADE - Professor (université Paris 5)
Derek EL ZEIN - Associate Professor (université Paris Descartes) & Lawyer
Artan FUGA - Professor (université de Tirana)
The Arab TV satellite channels' growth at the regional and global scale metamorphosed Arabic media space. The early 90s impulse globalization and satellite technologies' acquisition by Arab countries seems to be the beginning of a new era in this region where combined financial profitability, political influence and ideological actors.
TV Channels rolling news and continuously broadcast information are the appropriate model that reflects this scheme in a region politically, economically and culturally so complex and mostly complicated.
It is the advent of the Arab TV channel Al Jazeera and its Afghanistan war coverage in 2001 and thereafter the Iraq war in 2003 that have shaped a huge proportion of Arab public opinion. Other TV channels of the same kind are multiplied and diversified in a record time, such as Al Arabiya, Al Manar, ONTV, Al Mayadeen, etc.
Arabic audience is also coveted by Western Arabic TV channels financed by western countries and their governments, such as the U.S. channel Al Hurra, French once 24 French, British one BBC Arabic or the German one DW.
The study focuses on the role of the TV channels specialized on news in revolutions known and continuously know at present the Middle East region. What is the degree of their commitment to broadcasting and anchoring universal values and democratic practices? What is the degree of influence may reveal changes in the Arab societies?
The purpose of this research is to understand how the advent of TV Channels rolling news, set goals, and identify actors in order to recognize the consequences over the media plans and geopolitical perspectives.