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Al Jazeera is the best-known channel in Qatar, but state broadcaster Qatar TV (QTV) is the main source of national TV news for most Arabic speakers in the tiny Gulf state. Even though they are connected by fibre optic cables and their studios are just a short walk apart, the two channels differ in many ways and relations between them are not as warm as they could be.
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Miles, H. (2005) Al Jazeera: How Arab TV News Challenged the World (London: Abacus).
Gulf States Newsletter (2011) 35(909), 30 September.
Qatari Embassy in Washington DC website, www.qatarembassy.net/media.asp.
Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, http://english.mofa.gov.qa/details.cfm?id=114.
‘Qatar streams state radio, TV via new website’ (2011) Text of report in English on Qatari newspaper Gulf Times website by Andy Sennitt, published 31 May.
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Miles, H. (2013). The Other Face of Qatari TV Broadcasting. In: Guaaybess, T. (eds) National Broadcasting and State Policy in Arab Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137301932_4
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