Saudi billionaire Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal’s Kingdom Holding is to launch a 24-hour Arabic news channel in partnership with the Fox Network.
Jamal Khashoggi, former editor of Saudi-based Al Watan newspaper, will head the channel said Kingdom Holding in a statement, although the company did not set a date for the channel’s launch.
“We no longer have a void in the Arab world as it is now heavily occupied, therefore the new news channel is going to become an addition and an alternative for viewers,” Al-Waleed said in the release.
The new channel, which is nameless at present and will be independent of Al-Waleed’s Rotana Group, will go head-to-head with Qatar-based Al Jazeera and
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