ATV Jordan
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ATV Jordan
Jordan
Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...

's first independent TV Channel started its pilot broadcast and signal testing as of July 23, 2007. The channel is broadcasting through Nilesat 102
Nilesat 102
Nilesat 102 is an Egyptian owned geosynchronous communications satellite that was launched by an Ariane 44LP rocket from Kourou, French Guiana on August 17, 2000 at 23:16 UTC by the European Space Agency. It was manufactured by the European company Matra Marconi Space , and started official...

 on a frequency of 12303H¾.

ATV was founded by Mohamad Alayyan, a Jordanian business man who has invested in Jordan's media scene including Al-Ghad daily, Al-Waseet classified paper, in addition to several magazines and FM
FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...

radio stations.

ATV announced earlier this year that it will go public, making it the first satellite station in the Arab world to do so.

4 September 2007, ATV has launched part of its shows on ikbis.com

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