Media of Yemen

Media of Yemen

Yemen's Ministry of Information influences the media through its control of printing presses, granting of newspaper subsidies, and ownership of the country’s only television and radio stations. Yemen has nine government-controlled, 50 independent, and 30 party-affiliated newspapers. There are approximately 90 magazines, 50 percent of which are private, 30 percent government-controlled, and 20 percent party-affiliated. The government controls the content of news broadcasts and edits coverage of televised parliamentary debates.

Yemen's government usually monitors and blocks political and sexually explicit Web sites[1]. By law and regulation, newspapers and magazines must be government-licensed, and their content is restricted. There have been reports of journalists being physically attacked, as well as arrested and detained.[2]. The government gives reasons that such detained journalists are "opposing the law and calling for destruction of infrastructure" and supports some examples as in Sa'dah conflict, and retaliations against unity.

The official national news agency is the Saba News Agency.

Contents

Newspapers and magazines

There are over 20 licensed newspapers and magazines in Yemen among them are in the following table.[3][4]

Newspaper/Magazine Type Language Headquarter Status
Al-Ayyam [1] Independent daily Arabic Aden Locally blocked*
Al-Sahwa [2] Islamist weekly Arabic/English Aden online
Al-Thawra [3] Government-owned Arabic Sana'a online
Yemen Observer [4] Independent English/Arabic Sana'a online
Yemen Post [5] Independent online news portal English Sana'a online
Yemen Times [6] Independent weekly English Sanaa online
Al-Motamar [7] Government-owned Arabic/English Sana'a online
Al-Thawri (Al-Eshteraki)[8] Weekly Socialist Party Arabic Aden online
Fourteenth October [9] Government-owned English/Arabic Aden online
Telecoms & IT magazine [10] Government-owned Arabic Sana'a online
  • Note: the '*' indicates that this newspaper or its website has been blocked by the government, usually due to recent unstable situations.

Television and radio

Yemen has around 5 television channels, almost owned by the government. These channels are:

  • Yemen television channel: The 1st official channel started broadcasting in 1975 in North Yemen as local media, joined other Arab channels via INTELSAT-59 in 1995 and later Nilesat.
  • Yamania television channel: This channel was founded in 1980 in the South of Yemen as "Aden channel" and was renamed after the unity of Yemen.
  • Al-Saeeda television channel: New television channel opened in 2007 and is broadcasting via Nilesat.
  • Soheil television channel: This channel started its test programs in July 2009 on Nilesat.
  • Al-Iman television channel: Islamic dedicated channel opened recently in 2008 as a moderate channel against radicalism and terror.

In addition, there are more than 10 radio channels most of them broadcasting in the medium waves, except for San'a radio channel that also broadcasts in the short waves, and locally the FM. [5][6][7][8]

See also

References

  1. ^ YemenNet Arabic web site, the reasons for choosing YemeNet, (read the discussion page for more clarification)
  2. ^ Yemen country profile. Library of Congress Federal Research Division (August 2008). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ World Newspapers and Magazines-Yemen
  4. ^ Arabic news website
  5. ^ The media in Yemen, a brief history and general overview about the media, press, television and radio.
  6. ^ Radio Frequecies.
  7. ^ Broadcasting frequencies, Sana'a-Fr
  8. ^ Radio Station World - Yemen

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