| Al Jazeera Documentary Channel | |
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| Launched | 1 January 2007 |
| Owned by | Al Jazeera |
| Sister channel(s) | Al Jazeera (Arabic) Al Jazeera English |
| Website | Al Jazeera Documentary Channel |
Al Jazeera Documentary Channel (Arabic: الجزيرة الوثائقية) is an Arabic language documentary channel and a branch of the Al Jazeera network. It was launched at 12:00 GMT on 1 January 2007. It aims to provide viewers an immense amount of high quality documentary films. These films are expected to cover and analyze a breadth of topics including historical, scientific, political, artistic, and travel issues.
The channel claims that it will produce 15% of broadcast material in-house, while obtaining the rest from Arab and global producers.
The Manager of Al Jazeera Documentary Channel is Ahmed Mahfoudh.
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Al Jazeera Documentary Channel concentrates on presenting documentaries from the following five fields:[1]
| Satellite | Nilesat 7.0°W |
Hotbird 13°E |
Badr 4 Arabsat 26.0°E |
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| Frequency |
12360 MHZ | 12111 MHZ | 12034 MHz |
| Polarization |
Horizontal | Vertical | Horizontal |
| Symbol Rate |
27500 | 27500 | 27500 |
| Fec |
¾ | ¾ | ¾ |
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