Facebook TV?

byHabib Battah
Apr 30, 2012
1 minute read

There’s a new revolution, er TV channel, in town.

It’s available on Egyptian provider Nilesat and “coming soon” according to the caption above. Fortunately, they’ve managed to get the spelling right on the electronic program guide–below left in yellow:

Or maybe it was the only URL that was available and they were hoping people wouldn’t notice?

Welcome to “Facebock”?

Habib Battah

Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 15 years and teaches journalism and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is a contributor to Monocle, The Guardian, BBC World, Al Jazeera and others, a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and two-time recipient of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award. Battah's investigative work was recently recognized for outstanding local reporting by the Columbia University Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting. Battah earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Near East Studies and Journalism from New York University.