SAT-7
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| TV Station (Private Limited Company ( Ltd. )) | |
| Program type | Specialized program (religion) |
| reception | Satellite ( DVB-S ) |
| Start of transmission | May 31, 1996 |
| owner | Sat-7 Media Services Limited |
| executive Director | Rita El-Mounayer |
| List of TV channels | |
SAT-7 is a television station in the Middle East and North Africa with predominantly Christian content.
history
The station was founded in 1995 by Terence Ascott and has been on the air since May 31, 1996 . The program now broadcasts 24 hours a day, over 800 hours a week in 3 languages on 5 channels and reaches around 21 million viewers every day with its Arabic program.
The headquarters of SAT-7 is in Nicosia , Cyprus , the editorial office in Egypt and studios since 1996 in Beirut (Lebanon), Cairo (Egypt), since 2014 in Istanbul (Turkey), Limassol (Cyprus) and London (Great Britain). The station employs 178 people from 22 countries and is financed almost entirely from donations. The budget in 2014 was $ 14.8 million. The supporting partners include the Egyptian Bible Society, the Swiss Pentecostal Mission and, from Germany, the Märtyrerkirche aid campaign , the DMG interpersonal mission and aid organization , the Liebenzeller Mission and the “Action for Persecuted Christians and the Needy” (AVC).
The Iranian exile Mansour Khajehpour has been the director since July 2014. In 2019, Lebanese Rita El-Mounayer, who has been with SAT-7 since 1996 and has been program director from 2016, took over the position of managing director from founder Terence Ascott.
program
The aim of the station is not only to provide the Christians in the region with media, but also to broadcast information and educational programs. For example, there is a program dedicated to training small business owners and a learning program for illiterate people . The broadcaster deliberately refrains from broadcasting political programs and does not engage critically with other religious groups.
TV channels
- SAT-7 Arabic - for Arabs from Morocco to Iraq and from Germany to Sudan, since 1996
- SAT-7 Pars - in Persian (Farsi), since 2006
- SAT-7 Kids - Arabic television program for children and young people, since 2007
- SAT-7 Plus - the best programs from SAT-7 and SAT-7 Kids via the Egyptian satellite NileSat
- SAT-7 Turk - in Turkish, since 2012
- SAT-7 Academy - for the MENA region , since 2017
Web links
SAT-7 - web presence
Individual evidence
- ^ Sat-7 Media Services Limited
- ↑ Cyprus: Sat-7 has access , ead.de, article from March 15, 2017.
- ↑ SAT-7: First Christian television in Turkey , dmgint.de, accessed on March 8, 2015.
- ↑ SAT-7 Lebanon: Opening of new studios with 400 guests , dmgint.de, news from November 21, 2014.
- ↑ Cyprus: SAT-7 plans supraregional Arab school television channel, ead.de, message from February 15, 2016.
- ↑ Middle East: Christian TV is booming , idea.de, news from June 11, 2015.
- ↑ "SAT-7 Kids" celebrate their tenth anniversary , ead.de, message from December 12, 2017.
- ↑ New director for Christian TV station SAT-7 PARS , idea.de, message from June 6, 2014.
- ↑ SAT-7: At least 25 million people reached in 2018 , idea.de, article from March 30, 2019.
- ↑ "SAT-7 Academy": SAT-7 starts new education channel, idea.de, article from August 17, 2017.