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has more than 45 independent

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and French language publications as well as 4 government-owned

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s (two published in French and two in Arabic), but the government controls most printing presses and

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.Algeria country profile

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.'' The Algerian newspapers with the largest circulations are ''Echourouk'' (1,800,000), ''Ennahar'' (1,600,000), ''

El Khabar ''Elkhabar'' ( ar, الخبر, , The News) is a daily newspaper in Algeria published seven days a week in the tabloid format. It is one of the most widely read Algerian newspapers. ''El Khabar''′s web service publishes selected news in Arabic a ...

'' (1,000,000) and ''Quotidien d'Oran'' (700,000); all four are employee-owned. In 2004 and 2005, the government increased the access of

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and culture to both print and broadcast media. Algérie Presse Service is the Algerian national press agency. It was created on December 1, 1961, following the national independence of Algeria from French control, to represent Algeria in the sphere of the world media. It has evolved into an institution that produces online and satellite services.

Journalism

The written press in Algeria publishes in three languages: Arabic, French and

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. The majority of print publications are privately owned. The print press also publishes online, on a daily basis, except for on Fridays (public observation of the Islamic holy day). Since the end of 2016, the number of daily visitors of

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and online editions of newspapers surpasses the number of daily readers of print newspapers. Writing in Arabic, English and French, Algerian bloggers cover social, cultural and political topics. There are more than 100,000 Algerian blogs, a newspaper suggested in late 2014. Algerian dailies mark the anniversary of the introduction of the defamation laws by suspending publication in a protest known as a "day without newspapers". Arabic-language newspapers include ''

Echorouk ''Echorouk'' (in Arabic الشروق اليومي) or ''Ech Chorouk El Youmi'' (Arabic, aš-šurūqu-l-yawmi, ''The Daily Dawn'') is a daily newspaper in Algeria published Saturday to Thursday in the tabloid format. It is the second-largest dai ...

'', ''

'', and '' El Massa''. French-language newspapers include '' El Watan'' and ''

El Moudjahid ''El Moudjahid'' is an Algerian French-language newspaper. It was founded during the Algerian War to inform FLN resistance fighters, and after independence it became the newspaper of the single-party FLN government. Since the FLN was voted out ...

''. English-language newspapers include the '' North Africa Journal''. Defunct newspapers include ''Lisan al-Din'' (Language of Faith) founded in 1912, and the longer-lived ''Al-balagh al-jazairi'' (Algerian Messenger) founded in 1926 by Sufi Ahmad al-Alawi (1869–1934).

Censorship

There is no direct censorship, but laws set out prison terms and fines for insulting or defaming the president, MPs, judges and the army. Media rights bodies have accused the government of using the laws to control the private press. Algerian dailies mark the anniversary of the introduction of the defamation laws by suspending publication in a protest known as a "day without newspapers".

Telephones and telephony

According to the CIA/The World Fact by 2008, along with the rapid increase in mobile cellular subscribers, combined fixed-line and mobile telephone density surpassed 100 telephones per 100 persons. Algeria is also a participant in Medarabtel. This includes satellite earth stations with 51 services (including Intelsat, Intersputnik, and Arabsat) that links Algeria with most other parts of the world.

Television

In the area of broadcasting, the government has maintained a monopoly since 1962. Algerian television was somewhat democratized by the new constitution of 1989. Entreprise nationale de télévision (ENTV) is the national entity that oversees public television broadcasting. It manages the television channels

Canal Algérie TV2, formerly Canal Algérie (), in English means ''The Algerian channel'', is the second Algerian general public national television channel. The channel is part of the EPTV Group which also includes TV1, TV3, TV4, TV5, TV6, TV7, TV8 and ...

, Algérie 3, Amazigh tv 4 in

and the religious channel

Coran tv 5 TV5 (in ar, الجزائرية الخامسة), also known as Coran TV (in ar, قناة القرآن الكريم), is the fifth Algerian public national television channel. It is part of the Public broadcasting, state-owned Public Establishment ...

which broadcasts Islamic religious programming. The government purchases many commercial programs for broadcast.

also broadcasts online, without interruption.

Satellite broadcasts

The majority of the population of Algeria prefers to watch satellite broadcasts of Arab and French stations. The number of satellite dishes is estimated at 34 million. (Arabic and French). A bill is currently being studied that would prohibit satellite dishes on the facade of houses that face streets and boulevards. Many satellite services operate in Algeria, including Camagraph, Stream System, Magenta, and Condor. French-owned

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has recently signed a special agreement with Algeria. Algerian television channels: *ENTV (state-owned broadcaster) *Canal Algerie *TVA3 *Tamazight TV *Coran TV *Echorouk TV *Echorouk News Channel (news outlet of the Echorouk Media Group) *El Djazairiya TV *El Heddaf TV *Ennahar TV *Hoggar TV *Dzairshop TV *Numedia News TV *L'Index TV (Constantine regional channel) *Dzair TV (owned by business tycoon

Ali Haddad Ali Haddad, arabic: علي حداد (born 27 January 1965 in Tizi Ouzou) is an Algerian Businessman. He is the co-founder and CEO of ETRHB (''Entreprise des Travaux Routiers, Hydrauliques et Bâtiments''; Road, Hydraulic and Building Works Company ...

) *Al Atlas TV (shut down before presidential elections for its government criticisms) *Djurdjura Children Channel *Samira Women-dedicated Channel *El Bilad TV *Wiam TV (created just days before presidential elections to support independent candidate Abdelaziz Bouteflika) *KBC or El Khabar Broadcasting Channel (owned by El Khabar Media Group) Until now there are 50 channels broadcasting offshore. All these channels have large bureaus in Algiers but legally registered in Jordan, Bahrain, and the UK. With the recently published media law, these TV networks will have to comply with Algeria law to become Algerian licensed TV.

Radio

Radio Algérienne is the public radio broadcasting entity. It manages three national broadcast stations, two with national formats and 32 regional stations. This entity, which has 34 million Algerian listeners, broadcasts in Arabic, Berber, and French. Chorouk TV identifies itself as the first private satellite TV channel in Algeria launched just after the newly passed media law enabling businesspeople/journalists to create their own TV and radio stations. The channel will show about ten major thematic programmes dealing with politics, business, social, sport, entertainment and music. It will broadcast a one-hour and half news bulletin similar to Aljazeera’s Hasad Al Yawm (Today’s News Harvest). But in general, it identifies itself as Dubai-based MBC network, namely family/edutainment channel.

Internet

As of 2014 Algeria had 40000 Internet hosts and 31.7 million internet users.

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