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Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) is the official media organization of the government of
Dubai Dubai (, ; ar, دبي, translit=Dubayy, , ) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates.The Government and Politics of ...
. It was established in 2003 as a
state-owned company A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a Government, government entity which is established or nationalised by the ''national government'' or ''provincial government'' by an executive order or an act of legislation in order to earn Profit (econom ...
comprising a number of print, radio and TV channels under its umbrella including:
Dubai TV Dubai TV is a TV channel offered by the Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI). It replaced Emirates Dubai Television on June 14, 2004. Dubai TV broadcasts programmes predominantly in Arabic. The programming caters to family Arab audience specifically ...
, '' Al Bayan'',
Sama Dubai TV Sama or SAMA may refer to: Places * Sama, Burkina Faso, a town in the Kouka Department, Banwa Province, Burkina Faso * Sama, China (Sanya), a city in Hainan, China * Sama, Chalus, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran * Sama, Nowshahr, a villag ...
,
Dubai One Dubai One (formerly known as Ch33 and then One TV) is a Pan Arab 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 o ...
,
Dubai Sports Dubai Sports is a 24/7 sports channel based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The channel started in 1998 to be the home for sports news around the country and was awarded the privilege of showing different sports events locally and worldwide. It ...
, Dubai Racing, Dubai Zaman,
Dubai Drama Dubai (, ; ar, دبي, translit=Dubayy, , ) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates.The Government and Politics of ...
, Noor Dubai Radio &
Noor Dubai TV Noor or Nour may refer to: People *Noor (name) *Queen Noor of Jordan Fiction *Noor (film), ''Noor'' (film), a 2017 Bollywood film *Noor (play), ''Noor'' (play), a 2009 play by Akbar Ahmed *''Noor'', a 2020 Pakistani television series with Usama K ...
, Dubai FM, ''
Emarat Al Youm ''Emarat Al Youm'' (Arabic: الإمارات اليوم, ''al-Imārāt al-yawm'' - meaning ''The Emirates Today'') is an Arabic newspaper published by Dubai Media Incorporated. The paper is published in Dubai. The newspaper content focuses on d ...
'', ''
Emirates 24/7 Emirates 24/7, stylised as Emirates 24, 7, is a Dubai Media Incorporated news website and television news programme, respectively. The televised news programme, Emirates 24/7, is a 30-minute segment broadcast weekly on Dubai Media Inc.'s televisio ...
'', Tawseel and Masar Printing Press. The chairman of the board of directors of DMI,
Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum ( ar, مكتوم بن محمد بن راشد آل مكتوم; born 24 November 1983) is the Minister of Finance of the United Arab Emirates, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Media Inc ...
, is also the deputy ruler of Dubai.


History

Before DMI was established, the government-owned media outlets were a part of the Dubai Department of Media. These included a number of TV channels which were launched and closed over many years prior to the establishment of DMI. These included Dubai TV,
Dubai 33 Dubai Channel 33 (originally branded as Ch33) was a national television channel transmitting terrestrially out of Dubai in English, targeting the expat community in the U.A.E. It was founded in 1977. Up until the late 1980s, it was a 12-hour channe ...
, Dubai Business Channel, Al Bayan Newspaper, Dubai 92 and Dubai FM. After the establishment of
Arab Media Group Arab Media Group (AMG) is a Dubai, United Arab Emirates based entertainment company and a strategic business vertical of Dubai Holding. AMG covers radio broadcasting, event management, and family entertainment. AMG is an engaging premier integrat ...
(AMG) in 2005, which is a part of TECOM Investments, the technology and media holdings management arm of
Dubai Holding Dubai Holding ( ar, دبي القابضة) is Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum's personal investment portfolio, which owns 99.67% of the capital. It is a global investment holding company. Mohamed al Gergawi built the portfo ...
, all of the radio stations and newspapers were transferred under AMG, leaving DMI with only four TV channels (Dubai TV, Sama Dubai, Dubai One and Dubai Sports) and began privatizing the media outlets of Dubai.


2003 channel structure

Soon after DMI was established, and with a renewed concentration on television, the organization began relaunching the TV channels as part of a new strategy to target wider audiences, to compete on a pan-Arab level like
MBC Group MBC Group ( ar, مجموعة إم بي سي), is a Saudi media conglomerate based in the Middle East and North Africa region. Launched in London in 1991, the company moved to its headquarters to Dubai in 2002 then moved to Riyadh in 2022. MBC ...
and to complement the ongoing developments of Dubai as a global tourism and investment hub. This included relaunching Dubai TV as a general entertainment and news channel targeting the Arab world, the launch of Sama Dubai as local news and entertainment channel targeting Emirati and Gulf nationals. DMI also replaced the dated Channel 33 and relaunched it as Dubai One, with subtitled Western content targeting Arabs and expatriates living in Dubai and around the Arab world.


2004- The Launching of Dubai News Center

As a part of changes,
Dubai TV Dubai TV is a TV channel offered by the Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI). It replaced Emirates Dubai Television on June 14, 2004. Dubai TV broadcasts programmes predominantly in Arabic. The programming caters to family Arab audience specifically ...
launched and opens a new news center that will used for broadcasting news.
Dubai News Center Dubai (, ; ar, wikt:دبي, دبي, translit=Dubayy, , ) is the List of cities in the United Arab Emirates#Major cities, most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the 7 ...
is the current news division of Dubai Media Inc. Developing news bulletins for DMI's Television Channels-
Dubai TV Dubai TV is a TV channel offered by the Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI). It replaced Emirates Dubai Television on June 14, 2004. Dubai TV broadcasts programmes predominantly in Arabic. The programming caters to family Arab audience specifically ...
,
Sama Dubai TV Sama or SAMA may refer to: Places * Sama, Burkina Faso, a town in the Kouka Department, Banwa Province, Burkina Faso * Sama, China (Sanya), a city in Hainan, China * Sama, Chalus, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran * Sama, Nowshahr, a villag ...
,
Noor Dubai TV Noor or Nour may refer to: People *Noor (name) *Queen Noor of Jordan Fiction *Noor (film), ''Noor'' (film), a 2017 Bollywood film *Noor (play), ''Noor'' (play), a 2009 play by Akbar Ahmed *''Noor'', a 2020 Pakistani television series with Usama K ...
, Dubai Sports, Dubai Racing, and Dubai One.


2009 AMG-DMI merger

As a direct impact of the Late-2000s financial crisis, after considerable layoffs of the workforce,
Arab Media Group Arab Media Group (AMG) is a Dubai, United Arab Emirates based entertainment company and a strategic business vertical of Dubai Holding. AMG covers radio broadcasting, event management, and family entertainment. AMG is an engaging premier integrat ...
's newly established Noor Dubai TV (and Radio), along with the print media and publishing outlets were merged with Dubai Media Incorporated in late 2009. This expanded DMI's ownership into radio, print and online media which made it one of the largest media companies in the Middle East. The company also benefited from the newly transferred employees from AMG with their expertise in radio and for-profit media.


2010 expansion

With the platform of Noor Dubai radio, DMI launched Dubai FM in September 2011 to target Emirati youth with a variety of news programs and talk shows. There are also plans to launch a magazine called ARA Dubai. On 23 April 2015, the Dubai Media Incorporated was rebranded as Dubai Channels Network. On 22 May 2017, the Dubai Channels Network reverted its name back to Dubai Media Incorporated.


TV Channels

DMI has a number of TV channels, some of which extend into multiple broadcasts (Like Dubai Sports 1, 2HD. 3HD, 4HD & 5HD). While most of the production is centralized at DMI's own studios, each channel has its own management, team, structure and strategy.


Dubai TV

Dubai TV replaced Emirates Dubai Television in June 2004. Dubai TV broadcasts programmes predominantly in Arabic, with some additional subtitled Western movies and documentary series. The programming caters to family Arab audiences around the
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region and is also available in Australia, Europe, North America and the rest of Asia. A majority of its programming is produced locally, either through DMI's own in-house productions or by commissioning various production houses throughout the Arab world, whereby DMI acts as the "executive producer". The channel has cosmopolitan shows along with conservative religious programming as well as international formats to cater to the various types of people in the Arab world. Official Site : http://www.dubaitv.ae/


Sama Dubai

Sama Dubai was launched on 20 June 2005 to cater to the Emirati and Gulf audience, with a deep concentration on traditions and culture, specifically targeting the youth of the region. The popularity of the channel is attributed to its view on Gulf culture, while maintaining authenticity in the old traditions, there is always a foreword thinking view through the empowerment of women and the modernization of old culture, specifically with the highly successful reality series Al Meydan, which took the traditional
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dancing (which was not widely known at the time) and created competition similar to the format
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whereby viewers can vote on the best dancers. Official Site : http://www.samadubai.ae/


Dubai One

Dubai 33 Dubai Channel 33 (originally branded as Ch33) was a national television channel transmitting terrestrially out of Dubai in English, targeting the expat community in the U.A.E. It was founded in 1977. Up until the late 1980s, it was a 12-hour channe ...
(also called "Channel 33") was originally a terrestrial
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channel which catered, mostly, to the
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community living in Dubai. Through a number of Western cartoons, series,
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and films, as well as weekly
Hindi cinema Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...
along with a nightly local news broadcast. Since the expansion of
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networks like
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along with
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channels like MBC 2 which provided newer Western content, the popularity of Channel 33 declined heavily. In 2004, DMI launched One TV (which later became Dubai One) as a 24-hour free-to-air Digital satellite channel targeting a pan-Arab audience interested in Western content, this was done by subtitling content in Arabic and creating mostly Arabic and English (with an Arabic accent) on-air promotions. The channel did not include any of the previous content like soap operas, Bollywood cinema or local news. The channel was intended to compete with
MBC Group MBC Group ( ar, مجموعة إم بي سي), is a Saudi media conglomerate based in the Middle East and North Africa region. Launched in London in 1991, the company moved to its headquarters to Dubai in 2002 then moved to Riyadh in 2022. MBC ...
's MBC 2, which was a considerably successful strategy, until MBC launched a number of other Western-content channels, with newer films and TV series than Dubai One. Since the channel was launched, many of the labouring class expatriates living in Dubai were disappointed with removal of some of their most popular shows including
The Bold and the Beautiful ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' (often referred to as ''B&B'') is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. It premiered on March 23, 1987, as a sister show to the Bells' other soap opera ''The Yo ...
and the local news broadcast in English (which was, at the time, the only one of its kind in the UAE). The complaints were done through directly contacting DMI along with letters featured in local newspapers like
Gulf News ''Gulf News'' is a daily English language newspaper published from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was first launched in 1978, and is currently distributed throughout the UAE and also in other Persian Gulf Countries. Its online edition was launch ...
. Due to these shifts in market share, audience requests, as well as the Dubai government's strategy to make the channel promote the events and developments of the city, a daily news program called Emirates News was launched in 2007. The program was similar to the old format local news of Channel 33, but it was based in DMI's
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News Center in
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which was also used for
Dubai TV Dubai TV is a TV channel offered by the Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI). It replaced Emirates Dubai Television on June 14, 2004. Dubai TV broadcasts programmes predominantly in Arabic. The programming caters to family Arab audience specifically ...
's and
Sama Dubai Sama Dubai ( ar, سما دبي) was an Emirati real estate company noted for its legal troubles, including arrests of senior management, during its brief existence. History Sama Dubai was founded in 2006 as a member company and subsidiary of Du ...
's news broadcasts (as well as
Dubai Sports Dubai Sports is a 24/7 sports channel based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The channel started in 1998 to be the home for sports news around the country and was awarded the privilege of showing different sports events locally and worldwide. It ...
' news as of the 2010 relaunch), the program managed to successfully produce local news by sharing resources and news content with the other channels. Dubai One soon began launching more locally produced programs like Out & About, Studio One,
World of Sports (TV series) Launched in April 2010, World of Sports was a weekly sports show airing on Dubai One and featuring a mixture of local and international sports highlights, studio and telephone interviews with sporting personalities and a variety of sports related ...
, Understanding Islam and
Emirates 24/7 Emirates 24/7, stylised as Emirates 24, 7, is a Dubai Media Incorporated news website and television news programme, respectively. The televised news programme, Emirates 24/7, is a 30-minute segment broadcast weekly on Dubai Media Inc.'s televisio ...
which was co-branded with the online news website. The channel also brought back
The Bold and the Beautiful ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' (often referred to as ''B&B'') is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. It premiered on March 23, 1987, as a sister show to the Bells' other soap opera ''The Yo ...
and began featuring more
Hindi cinema Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...
along with its Westen content, which became more targeted to offer films and TV shows that were not available on competing free-to-air channels.


Emirates 24/7

Emirates 24/7 Emirates 24/7, stylised as Emirates 24, 7, is a Dubai Media Incorporated news website and television news programme, respectively. The televised news programme, Emirates 24/7, is a 30-minute segment broadcast weekly on Dubai Media Inc.'s televisio ...
is a 30-minute segment broadcast weekly, as well as the name of their news website.


Noor Dubai

In 2008, AMG launched Noor Dubai TV on the first day of
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that year, solidifying its
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views. The channel was originally an experimental radio and television hybrid, with a limited budget, significantly lower production values than competing Dubai-owned channels and with dual-broadcasts of radio programs on television along with new television-only shows. While the radio station was only available in Dubai, the TV channel was a pan-Arab satellite broadcast, so its popularity grew far beyond the intended audience with a significant following of conservative Muslims living around the Middle East due to the heavy Islamic content, which was based on the radio station format. After the 2009 AMG-DMI merger, the new channel, along with the radio station, joined DMI and the offices and studios were moved from Dubai Studio City to DMI's headquarters next to Al Maktoum Bridge. DMI relaunched the TV channel in an attempt to separate it from the radio channel and to suppress the ultra-conservative brand. The new target audience was similar to Sama Dubai's Emirati and Gulf target, but instead was an older audience. This was done through programming about cultural and traditional topics as well as a re-broadcasting of decades-old series and programs from the DMI library. DMI also gave Noor Dubai its own broadcast of Emirates news, from DMI's News Center using the same news content that's broadcast on Sama Dubai and Dubai TV's Emirates news.


Dubai Sports

Dubai Sports Channel was launched in 1998 to cover local sports events in the UAE and to have exclusive Middle East broadcast rights for some of Dubai's sports events like the
Dubai World Cup The Dubai World Cup (Arabic: كأس دبي العالمي) is a Thoroughbred horse race held annually since 1996 and contested at the Meydan Racecourse (Arabic: ميدان) which in Arabic suggests a place wher ...
. It was later expanded to include international sports by acquiring Middle East broadcast rights for events like the
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and
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. The popularity of the channel grew as it increased coverage of the
UAE Football League The UAE Pro League ( ar, دوري المحترفين الإماراتي), known for sponsorship reasons as the ADNOC Pro League, is the top professional football league in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The first team to win the title was Al O ...
, with live broadcast of matches and complementary shows like Dawrina and the popular Al Jamahir, which interviewed fans of teams during and after matches with all of their emotional outbursts when their teams lost. Due to the development of the UAE Football League and the increasing number of events taking place simultaneously, Dubai Sports expanded to include Dubai Sports 2 & 3, which act as a
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except during multiple live events. The expansion of the channels has also been an attempt to compete with other pan-Arab sports channels like
Abu Dhabi Sports Channel Abu Dhabi Sports or AD Sports ( ar, أبوظبي الرياضيّة) is an Arabic television channel. It broadcasts from Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates and is owned by Abu Dhabi Media. Abu Dhabi Sports Channel is an UAE Arab sa ...
(for local events),
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and
ShowSports OSN Sports (formerly known as ShowSports) was a Pan Arab satellite sports television network owned by Orbit Showtime Network. First launched in early April 2007, it operated eight HD channels: OSN Sports Action 1, OSN Sports Action 2, OSN Spo ...
(for international events). But due to budget limitations, the channel has not been able to fully compete and has since lost some of its popularity. Official Site : http://www.dubaisports.ae/


Dubai Racing

In essence, an extension of Dubai Sports, but with its own brand and identity, Dubai Racing is the only
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and
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TV channel in the Middle East. Specifically dedicated to coverage of horse racing events in the UAE like the
Dubai World Cup The Dubai World Cup (Arabic: كأس دبي العالمي) is a Thoroughbred horse race held annually since 1996 and contested at the Meydan Racecourse (Arabic: ميدان) which in Arabic suggests a place wher ...
, various camel races and accompanying programs. The channel originally took all of its content from Dubai Sports and larger sporting events are
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on Dubai Sports.


Dubai Zaman

Dubai Zaman was launched on 23 April 2015 to show old programs and films from the 70's, 80's and 90's.


Dubai Drama

Dubai Drama was launched on 23 April 2015 (the same day Dubai Zaman was launched) to show dramatic shows in Arabic or English (with Arabic subtitles) language. The channel ceased operations in 2016.


Radio Stations


Noor Dubai

Noor Dubai (FM 93.9) was originally launched by
Arab Media Group Arab Media Group (AMG) is a Dubai, United Arab Emirates based entertainment company and a strategic business vertical of Dubai Holding. AMG covers radio broadcasting, event management, and family entertainment. AMG is an engaging premier integrat ...
in 2005, replacing Dubai FM which had the same frequency. The channel's slogan was "A community channel with an Islamic perspective", it was intended to be a conservative radio station which did not air any music, while still serving the community through talk shows about various topics facing the community along with religious programming and
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(instead of music). The most popular program was a morning call-in show called Al Bath Al Mubashar ("The Live Broadcast") which allowed anyone in the community to call in with their thoughts, opinions or complaints on almost any topic, but it was predominantly government-related service issues, the host would then call up the responsible agency to find solutions to the issues.


Dubai Radio

On 30 August 2011, the same day as
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, DMI launched Dubai FM on the frequency 93. The channel expanded DMI's radio stations, utilizing the infrastructure and expertise of the Noor Dubai station. Dubai FM is a youth-oriented channel with talk shows and music aimed at the more liberal Emirati youth market. Official Site : http://www.dubairadiofm.ae/


Newspapers Printing, publishing & Distribution


Al Bayan

'' Al Bayan'' was established in 1980 by the government of Dubai as a part of the Dubai Media Department. It reported on local news, Arab news and some international news, it was known for its critical coverage and political views of events in Arab world, but in essence it was considered the official news paper of government of Dubai and so was very popular among local readers working in the government sector. It later moved to
Arab Media Group Arab Media Group (AMG) is a Dubai, United Arab Emirates based entertainment company and a strategic business vertical of Dubai Holding. AMG covers radio broadcasting, event management, and family entertainment. AMG is an engaging premier integrat ...
where it was rebranded, giving it a new look and making the whole newspaper in full color. This was an attempt to target a younger audience, but was ultimately unsuccessful as there was not a significant change in the content. Now Daily Al Bayan Pakistan also launched in Pakistan. Since the 2009 AMG-DMI merger, the newspaper is a part of Dubai Media Incorporated.


Emarat Al Youm

''
Emarat Al Youm ''Emarat Al Youm'' (Arabic: الإمارات اليوم, ''al-Imārāt al-yawm'' - meaning ''The Emirates Today'') is an Arabic newspaper published by Dubai Media Incorporated. The paper is published in Dubai. The newspaper content focuses on d ...
'' (Emirates Today) was launched in 2005 by
Arab Media Group Arab Media Group (AMG) is a Dubai, United Arab Emirates based entertainment company and a strategic business vertical of Dubai Holding. AMG covers radio broadcasting, event management, and family entertainment. AMG is an engaging premier integrat ...
. The newspaper was part of an experimental structure in which its sister newspaper, the English-language Emirates Today, had the same team of reporters, in essence the same news paper but in two languages. While the popularity of Emarat Al Youm grew amongst the younger readers, Emirates Today proved unpopular amongst the
expatriate An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person who resides outside their native country. In common usage, the term often refers to educated professionals, skilled workers, or artists taking positions outside their home country, either ...
population compared to the already established English-language newspapers and was ultimately shut down. The popularity of Emarat Al Youm is attributed to its concentration on community issues and news, rather than politics and governmental issues. In 2009, the newspaper was suspended from publication for 20 days from 6 July on the instructions of an Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal ruling, upheld by the Supreme Federal Court of the UAE. The newspaper had been sued by the owners of the Warsan Stables (the Abu Dhabi Royal Family) for publishing a story in 2006 claiming their horses had been drugged with steroids.


See also

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Dubai One Dubai One (formerly known as Ch33 and then One TV) is a Pan Arab 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 o ...
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Dubai Sports Dubai Sports is a 24/7 sports channel based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The channel started in 1998 to be the home for sports news around the country and was awarded the privilege of showing different sports events locally and worldwide. It ...
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Dubai TV Dubai TV is a TV channel offered by the Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI). It replaced Emirates Dubai Television on June 14, 2004. Dubai TV broadcasts programmes predominantly in Arabic. The programming caters to family Arab audience specifically ...
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Arab Media Group Arab Media Group (AMG) is a Dubai, United Arab Emirates based entertainment company and a strategic business vertical of Dubai Holding. AMG covers radio broadcasting, event management, and family entertainment. AMG is an engaging premier integrat ...
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Dubai Media City Dubai Media City (DMC), part of Dubai Holding, is a tax-free zone within Dubai, United Arab Emirates. History and profile The Dubai Media City was established and built in 2000 and inaugurated in January 2001 by the government of Dubai to boos ...
* Zeina Soufan


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