Dzaïr News

Dzaïr News, also rendered as Dzair News and written in Arabic as دزاير نيوز, was an Algerian Arabic-language satellite television channel based in Hydra, Algiers. The channel was established by Algerian businessman Ali Haddad together with a number of intellectuals from Algeria and the wider Arab world. Its launch took place on 18 May 2014, when it also began broadcasting programming. The channel’s stated identity was built around Arabic-language television coverage of current affairs, politics, public debate, culture, sport, and economic subjects. Its schedule included news-oriented and discussion programs such as Beyond the Fact, The World Today, File and Discussion, Bearings, Private Meeting, and Talk in Politics. These titles indicate a programming model that combined news analysis, interviews, studio discussion, and topical debate rather than relying exclusively on rolling news bulletins. The station also carried specialist programming, including 100% Sport, Economia, Cultural and Faces, Eighth Day, and Spectra, broadening its output across sports, business, culture, and social or human-interest topics. Dzaïr News was part of a wider Algerian television environment in which private and privately backed channels sought to build audiences through locally relevant Arabic-language programming. Its location in Hydra placed it within Algiers’ media and business ecosystem, while satellite distribution gave the channel potential reach beyond the capital and across Arabophone audiences. The available reference material identifies the channel and its programming but does not provide reliable details about its corporate structure, audience figures, financing, later ownership, or the date and circumstances of any cessation of broadcasting. A notable element of the channel’s activities was sports-rights broadcasting. Dzaïr News and sister channels are identified as holding broadcasting rights for matches from the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2. This complemented the channel’s dedicated sports programming and gave it a role in televising domestic football alongside its news and public-affairs output. The surviving descriptions of Dzaïr News provide a concise record of its creation, launch date, location, programming profile, and sports-rights activity, but do not establish whether the service remains active. Accordingly, its current operational status, ownership, executive leadership, and present website availability require verification.

Dzaïr News was created in Algeria as an Arabic-language satellite television channel associated with businessman Ali Haddad and a group of Arab intellectuals from Algeria and the wider Arab world. The channel was founded on 18 May 2014 and commenced broadcasting on that date. Its base was in Hydra, an area of Algiers associated with commercial, political, and media activity. The channel’s programming combined news coverage with analysis and discussion. Current-affairs titles included Beyond the Fact, The World Today, File and Discussion, Bearings, Private Meeting, Eighth Day, and Talk in Politics. Together, these programs suggest an emphasis on interviews, political conversation, topical analysis, and explanatory coverage of events. The schedule also included dedicated formats outside hard news, such as 100% Sport, Economia, Cultural and Faces, and Spectra. This gave the service a broader general-interest profile covering sports, economics, culture, and public personalities. Dzaïr News also participated in sports broadcasting. The channel and sister services are recorded as holding rights to broadcast the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2. Domestic football rights provided a way to complement studio sports coverage with live or recorded competition programming and to attract viewers interested in Algerian club football. The available historical record is limited. It confirms the channel’s founding date, launch, Algiers location, founders, program titles, and football-rights activity, but does not document a detailed ownership history, changes in management, audience performance, financial results, rebranding, or closure. It also does not establish the channel’s current broadcasting status. The official website is listed as an external link in the reference material, but its present operation has not been independently established here.

• 2014

  Channel founded and launched

  [1]Dzaïr Newsen.wikipedia.org

  Dzaïr News was founded on 18 May 2014 and began broadcasting programs the same day.

An Algerian Arabic-language satellite channel combining news, current-affairs discussion, interviews, sport, culture, and business programming.

• Television channel · 2014

  Arabic-language satellite television service

  The core Dzaïr News offering was an Arabic-language satellite television service based in Hydra, Algiers. Its schedule covered news, political analysis, interviews, public debate, sports, culture, and economics, positioning the channel as a general-interest Algerian broadcaster rather than a narrowly specialized service.

• News and public affairs · 2014

  News and current-affairs programs

  The channel’s current-affairs portfolio included Beyond the Fact, The World Today, File and Discussion, Bearings, Private Meeting, Eighth Day, and Talk in Politics. These formats addressed topical events through reporting, studio discussion, interviews, and political commentary.

• Sports television · 2014

  Sports programming

  100% Sport was the channel’s named sports program. Dzaïr News and sister channels were also associated with broadcasting rights for the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2, linking the brand to domestic Algerian football coverage.

• Culture and business television · 2014

  Cultural and specialist programming

  Cultural and Faces, Economia, and Spectra represented the channel’s cultural, business, and broader specialist output. These programs expanded the schedule beyond breaking news and political debate to include cultural subjects, economic topics, and feature-oriented coverage.

1. 1Dzaïr Newsen.wikipedia.org
2. 2Dzaïr News official websitedzairnews.net