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Arabic-language television channel

Television channel

Arab News Network (ANN) was an Arab news channel broadcast on satellite from London.

Siwar al assad biography of william hill

History and profile

ANN was established in 1997.^[1] The channel is currently owned by Siwar al Assad, a first cousin of the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad.^[1] The channel states its goal to be democratic reform.^{[citation needed]}

The station broadcast daily English news from November 2004 to March 2006, but since then had been broadcasting solely in Arabic until 2014.

The desire to remove the programme reflected a change in management. Ribal al-Assad, took over as director of the London Bureau from 2006 to 2010. He decided to cancel the English programming due what he perceived to be the lack of an audience for it.^{[citation needed]} However, since the latest change of management in 2010, the new proprietor, Siwar al Assad, has decided to reintroduce English Language p