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BBC Arabic Television is a British international news and Arabic-language public television channel. It is part of the BBC. This channel is not the first attempt by the BBC to organize television broadcasting in the Arab world. The previous channel was shut down on April 21, 1996, after two years of broadcasting, when its broadcasting partner Orbit Communications Corporation (owned by Prince Khalid, cousin of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia) terminated the partnership after an episode criticizing the government of Saudi Arabia. Many of the channel's staff went to work for Al Jazeera after it was shut down. The channel was previously announced in October 2005, and began broadcasting in the summer of 2007, but it was canceled. Broadcasting began on March 11, 2008. The channel was launched by BBC World Service with a grant from the British Foreign Office.
