Ajyal TV

Ajyal

Country	Saudi Arabia (first days of broadcast in 2009) Arab world
Headquarters	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Programming
Language(s)	Arabic
Picture format	(576i on free-to-air, satellite and cable and YouTube live streams from 2012-2014; 720p on YouTube from 2014-2018)
Ownership
Owner	Saudi Broadcasting Authority
History
Launched	20 September 2009;15 years ago (2009-09-20)
Closed	23 July 2018;6 years ago (2018-07-23)
Replaced by	SBC

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

The channel's test broadcasts began in very late June or very early July 2009. ^[2] Ajyal TV officially launched on Eid al-Fitr in 2009.

In 2014, the channel underwent a rebranding with a new visual identity (the dominant color being orange instead of red). Ajyal TV ceased broadcasting in 2018 based on a decision by the president of the Saudi Broadcasting Authority with the intention of merging it into Saudi 1. Unfortunately, the process never came into fruition.

In house programming

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

1. إعلان إحتفالية قناة أجيال بالبيعة الثامنة (in Arabic), retrieved 2023-12-20
2. "قناة أجيال.. هل نفرح إذن؟". مدونة فهد بن فيصل الحجي (in Arabic). 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2023-12-15.