Media /TV

UK channels 

Dubai channels

The TV has become one the essential things in our lives, but of course there plenty of differences in what is being broadcast to the public. Here are some differences between British and the U.A.E. broadcasting. Firstly the British broadcasts are famous. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is well known as non commercial broadcaster and it gets funded by the TV licenses, while in U.A.E. broadcasts are funded by commercials as well as by the government. The BBC has freedom of speech; in U.A.E. broadcasters has some freedom of speech, but not as much the BBC. The most famous soaps in the UK are EastEnders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale, and  they are being broadcast for many years now .However, in the U.A.E. broadcasts  there are no soaps, but they have  series which have maximum 30 episodes . Both countries show some types of programmes such as international and local news, sports programmes and events.  Both countries broadcast for twenty four hours a day and have channels
which only broadcast news and sport.


http://www.freeview.co.uk/Channels
http://www.dmi.ae/default.asp?lang=en