Telecommunications in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is under the control and supervision of the Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority which was established under UAE Federal Law by Decree No. 3 of 2003. From 1976 to 2006 the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) was the sole telephone and telecommunications provider for the UAE. And while there were exceptions for free zones and modern housing developments, for the majority of the UAE, Etisalat held a monopoly on business and personal telecommunications services. In February 2006, this monopoly became a duopoly when a new telephone company and Internet service provider (ISP), du, was established to offer mobile services across the UAE and Internet and TV services to some free zone areas. However, due to geographical distribution of service areas, the companies do not compete for customers and thus effectively operate as monopolies. Earlier du provided triple play services to free zone areas under the name Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), which is still its legal name.
Zee TV is an Indian Hindi language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It was launched on 1 October 1992, as the oldest privately owned Television channel in India. The defunct and unsuccessful Asia Television Network started earlier.
B4U is a television network focused on Bollywood based entertainment. The network operates the seven channels B4U Music, B4U Movies, B4U Kadak, B4U Bhojpuri, B4U Aflam, B4U Plus and B4U Hitz which are at present available on more than 8 different satellites, in more than 100 countries in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia. In addition, the company operates B4U Motion Pictures, which is a media and entertainment production subsidiary.
MBC Group, formerly known as Middle East Broadcasting Center, is a Saudi media conglomerate based in the Middle East and North Africa region. Launched in London in 1991, the company moved its headquarters to Dubai in 2002 and to Riyadh in 2022.
MBC 4 is a television channel in the Middle East. It was launched on 1 February 2005 at 5:00 P.M. (GMT) and is owned by the Middle East Broadcasting Center. MBC 4 airs international programmes with Arabic language subtitles. Its programming is targeted towards women.
Indian television dramas are dramatic television programs written, produced, and filmed in India, featuring Indian actors in the lead roles, with episodes broadcast on Indian television.
Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) is the official media organization of the government of Dubai. It was established in 2003 as a state-owned company comprising a number of print, radio and TV channels under its umbrella, including: Dubai TV, Al Bayan, Dubai One, Dubai Sports, Emirates 24/7, Tawseel and Masar Printing Press. The chairman of the board of directors of DMI, Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, is also the deputy ruler of Dubai.
Dubai One is an Emirati English language entertainment television channel, owned by Dubai Media Incorporated. It was launched on 14 May 1994, and is currently managed by Sarah al Jarman. It airs a mix of locally produced and international syndicated content that caters English language and non-Arab viewers in the MENA region. It started broadcasting in HD on Nilesat 201 on 28 February 2019.
Dubai is a media hub for the Middle East region and is home to many television and radio channels.
Showtime Arabia was Showtime Networks' pay television service in the Middle East and North Africa. It was a joint venture between Kuwaiti holding company KIPCO and American media firm Viacom Inc.. The company was incorporated in the Cayman Islands and had its headquarters at Dubai Media City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Nickelodeon is an pan-Arab pay television channel for kids that is exclusively available on OSN. It is the official Arabic-localised variant of Nickelodeon and until 2011, it was the last remaining channel to retain the 'splat' logo that was used from 1984 to 2009 in the United States.
Zee Tamil is an Indian Tamil language pay television general entertainment channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. The channel started broadcasting on 2008 and is available internationally. The channel broadcasts from Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Antoine Choueiri was a billionaire Lebanese media executive. He was the founder of Choueiri Group, the Middle East's largest media broker.
Zee Aflam is an Indian & Pakistani pay television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises based in Dubai, UAE, which broadcasts movies and television series originally made in Hindi, either subtitled in Arabic, Bollywood films in the Arab world, where the channel shows Hindi films and programs subtitled in Arabic, Pakistani films and programs subtitled in Arabic, and broadcasts around the clock a variety of Bollywood films, including romance, comedy, action and drama, starting from the latest films to the classics.
Television in the United Arab Emirates began in 1969.
Pakistani dramas, or Pakistani serials, are televised serials produced in Pakistan. Although most of the serials are produced in Urdu, an increasing number of them are produced in other Pakistani languages such as Sindhi, Pashto, Punjabi and Balochi. One of Pakistan's oldest television dramas is the Urdu serial Khuda Ki Basti, which aired in 1969. Pakistani dramas, like serials elsewhere, reflect the country's culture. According to critics, the decades of 1970s and 1980s are considered to be the golden age of Pakistani serials.
&TV, also known as And TV, is a Hindi-language entertainment channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. Launched as a general entertainment channel from ZEEL group, it started broadcasting on 2 March 2015. On 1 June 2019, &TV was closed in the UK due to the launch of ZEE5.
Zee Sine was a Filipino language motion pictures-oriented channel in the Philippines. It was the first Indian pay television channel in the Philippines owned by Zee network of the Zee Entertainment Enterprises under the stewardship of Vinod Kumar, VP of Prase in Manila. This channel aired mostly Hindi-language (Bollywood) movies dubbed in Tagalog.
Zee World is an English-language Bollywood entertainment pay television channel in South Africa and Nigeria. It was launched on 3 February 2015, as the first English-dubbed Bollywood channel in Africa. It is owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It is another English Bollywood channel whose main competitor is Star Life.
