ART Europe
Channel History
Last updated 14 May 2016
The Arab Radio and Television Network was created in October 1993 by Saleh Abdullah Kamel, a Saudi businessman and is a private company specializing in family entertainment, including movies, music and sport.
In October 2002 TWiDW reported:
I learned yesterday that a TV station in Europe began and stopped airing Doctor Who without my ever covering it. ART Europe, part of an Arabic programming package in Europe on Sky Digital, aired a couple of Doctor Who stories a while back. They aired select stories where Arabic soundtracks were available. ART Europe programming is widescreen, so the top and bottom of the image of the Doctor Who episodes was chopped off to make it fit the 16x9 aspect ratio. Supposedly they have stopped airing Doctor Who. A search of the ART website http://www.art-tv.net/ found nothing that I could identify as Doctor Who on any of their channels in the next week. It would be interesting to know if anyone remembers exactly which episodes aired and in what timeslots they appeared. Apparently the Arabic TV package was free to air when the Doctor Who episodes were airing, though they are scrambled now.