The Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC; ar, هيئة الإذاعة والتلفزيون الفلسطينية, Hayʾat al-ʾIḏāʿa wa-t-Tilifizyūn al-Filasṭīniyya) or Palestine Public Broadcasting Corporation ( ), also known as Palestine TV, was established on 1 July 1994 and is within the jurisdiction of the
Palestinian Authority. It has a subsidiary radio station known as the
Voice of Palestine and a satellite channel known as
Palestinian Satellite Channel
Palestine Satellite Channel and its companion radio station, Voice of Palestine (launched 1995) are free-to-air (FTA) general entertainment channels in Arabic. The satellite channel is part of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, which bega ...
. Palestine TV first began broadcasting in 1996 in Gaza. The first head of the PBC was
Fatah activist and
Arafat loyalist
Radwan Abu Ayyash, former head of the
Arab Journalists' Association
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.
The PBC was funded partially by the
US government
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, a city within a feder ...
until 1998.
On 19 January 2002, the
Israel Defense Forces used explosives to destroy the five-story main building and transmission tower of the PBC in
Ramallah claiming retaliation for the killing of six people by a Palestinian gunman linked to Fatah. The Israeli Government later singled out PBC for broadcasting material deemed to be anti-Semitic or that incited violence.
The broadcasting corporation is a former
European Broadcasting Union associate member, and was alleged to have held negotiations with the European Broadcasting Union to become a full active members.
However,
Palestine is not a member of the required organisations, and thus does not comply with the criteria.
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Publicly funded broadcasters
Television stations in the State of Palestine
Radio stations in the State of Palestine
Television channels and stations established in 1994
Mass media in Ramallah
State media
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