Launched 1995 Country Syria Headquarters Damascus, Syria | Owned by RTV Syria Language Arabic | |
Broadcast area Syria
Arab World
Europe
Australia
Americas | ||
Syria TV (Arabic:القناة الفضائية السورية), also known as Syrian Satellite Channel is a satellite television channel owned by RTV Syria and broadcast throughout the world on various satellites. The television station is based in Damascus, Syria since 1995.
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Programs
Syria TV features a variety of general-interest programs.
Most of the programmes are in Arabic. There is also a number of English programmes and some news broadcasts in English, French, Spanish, Russian and recently Turkish.
During the Syrian civil war
The Arab League officially asked the satellite operators Arabsat and Nilesat to stop broadcasting Syrian media, including Syria TV in June 2012. On 5 September 2012, Syrian Television Channels broadcast were broken off on Arabsat and Nilesat, including Syria TV. Syria TV and Syrian Drama TV broadcasts were stopped on Hotbird on 22 October 2012.
On May 26, 2013 Opposition forces opened fire on the Syria TV team near al-Daba'a village in the countryside of al-Qusayr in Homs province, injuring Cameraman Asem al-Shaar.