Al Arabiya News Channel has launched a new service that allows viewers to upload videos to be broadcast on TV and posted on AlArabiya.net and has so far received over 1,400 videos about Egypt on the first day alone.
Ana Ara (I See), is the name of the service that allows viewers of Al Arabiya News Channel and readers of AlArabiya.net to upload videos that capture important moments, with a special focus on the latest political unrest that has swept Egypt for the past 10 days.
The Ana Ara service gives Al Arabiya the right to broadcast the videos for an unlimited number of times and without financial compensation for the senders. Al Arabiya also reserves the right to edit the videos for broadcasting and technical reasons. The channel is also not under any obligation to broadcast all the videos it receives. When uploading videos, users have to state that the material belongs to them and that they are not violating any copyright laws by posting it.
With the events in Egypt making headlines and top stories in all media outlets across the world, AlArabiya.net has launched a special page about the protests under the title “Egypt… the change.” The Egypt page offers latest updates on the protests and sit-ins taking place in several parts of Egypt as well as reports by Al Arabiya correspondents from several Egyptian cities in addition to a special section for views on the Egyptian situation by Egyptian and Arab intellectuals.
The massive media attention the political unrest in Egypt received, necessitated the launching of a special page that offers updated information on the situation, said Fahad Saud, Editorial Manager of AlArabiya.net. “The page that streams videos of the events taken from Al Arabiya News Channel is extremely popular,” he said.
Saud added that when the unrest comes to an end, the Egypt section will not be on the front page of the website, as happened with the section on the Tunisian revolution. “The Egypt section will, however, remain in the archives and it is very easy to search for it on the website.”
(Source: AlArabiya.net)
