Al Arab News Channel will not re-launch.
Employees at the troubled station, owned by Saudi billionaire businessman Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal, have received a mail from the executive director of human resources and admin affairs informing them that “the time has now come for a final decision to be made regarding the future of the channel.”
The email, sent on February 6, said: “Therefore and regretfully, the management has decided to cease its operation with an immediate effect.”
The 24-hour pan-Arab news channel originally launched out of Bahrain in February 2015. It had reportedly been based there rather than the Prince’s home base of Saudi Arabia –where he owns the gigantic Kingd
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