Nowadays, the TV is the most popular entertainments. There is at least a TV in every single house over the world. In Britain, the BBC ‘British Broadcasting Corporation’ is considered the mother of information services. It has many TV channels and radio in English and other languages. It is broadcasting over the world not just in the UK. Before the Second World War, the government was controlling the broadcasting of the BBC but after that, the BBC becomes identified with the principles of democracy and free speech. The BBC were not depends on advertising or on the government for its income. It gets this from the licence fee which everybody who uses a television set has to pay.
In Saudi Arabia, there are many Saudi channels broadcasting over the country some of the broadcasting from outside the country such as MBC in Dubai and Orbit in Bahrain. However, the National Saudi Channel controlled from the government. It is not allowed to criticism of the royal family and questioning of the religions tents.
ref:
BBC (2011) Saudi Arabia Country Profile. Available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/country_profiles/791936.stm (Accessed: 12 June 2011).
Driscoll, O. (1995) ‘The Media’, Britain – the Country and Its People: an Introduction for Learning of English, p.152
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