Iraqi TV
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1979-2003

"Iraqi TV" was the primary TV station in Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

 while Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...

 was in power. Until the 2003 invasion of Iraq
2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq , was the start of the conflict known as the Iraq War, or Operation Iraqi Freedom, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq and toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein in 21 days of major combat operations...

, its main coverage was patriotic music, government news and propaganda. It was bombed off the air in the 2003 invasion.

Another TV channel called Youth Channel (Qanaat Al-Shabaab) started broadcasting in 1994 and contained many subtitled movies and Western music before the 2003 invasion. Scenes of mature content were edited out of these movies, as to make them more suitable to the culture, community and age ranges of viewers.

Because Iraqi television was free to watch for anyone owning a proper satellite receiver in a proper region, it also received a substantial amount of attention from viewers in countries other than Iraq, especially during the 2003 invasion of the country.

Although corporate media
Corporate media
"Corporate media" is a term which refers to a system of mass media production, distribution, ownership, and funding which is dominated by corporations and their CEOs....

 portrayed Iraqi television largely as an antiquated media, it still gathered a small Western audience.

Because Iraqi TV had kept on broadcasting videos showing Saddam Hussein alive or dead to divert Army attention from trying to locate him, cutting the station off air was a major priority.

The last five minutes of Iraqi TV was started with an unidentified Ba'ath party representative/reporter, who was giving a speech outside of Saddam's Radwaniyah palace. Then it showed a group of people parading and celebrating Saddam and the Ba'ath party for protecting of Iraq. After two minutes of parading, the screen suddenly blacked out, giving evidence of the time the station was bombed off. The 30-year-old channel had ended.

2003-present

Many TV stations have appeared since the fall of Saddam including:
  • Al Iraqiya
    Al Iraqiya
    Al Iraqiya is a satellite and terrestrial public broadcaster and television network in Iraq that was set up after the fall of Sadaam Hussein. It is an Arabic language network that serves upwards of 85% of Iraq's population, and is viewed by a significant percentage .The channel began under the...

    , the government-financed television station
  • Al Sharqiya
    Al Sharqiya
    Al Sharqiya is Iraq's first privately owned satellite channel owned by the London, Baghdad and Dubai-based Iraqi media tycoon Saad al-Bazzaz, a secular nationalist from Mosul. Al-Bazzaz is also the Editor in Chief of the Azzaman newspaper...

    , Iraq's first privately owned satellite TV station
  • Al Sumaria, an independent Iraqi satellite TV network
  • Nawa TV, an Iraqi TV station broadcasting in Arabic and Kurdish
  • Al-Baghdadia TV
    Al-Baghdadia TV
    Al-Baghdadia TV is an independent Iraqi-owned Arabic-language satellite channel based in Cairo, Egypt. It is considered a Nationalistic channel of funding directly and only from the CEO. During the Iraqi insurgency, several prominent journalists with the station were murdered...

    , Arab nationalist channel which opposed the occupation, the insurgency and dictatorship. The owner's family were heavily abused during Saddam Hussain's reign
  • Al Forat, the SIIC TV station
  • Ashur TV
    Ashur TV
    Ashur TV is an Assyrian-based satellite television channel that is affiliated with the Assyrian Democratic Movement political party....

  • Biladi
  • Baghdad TV
  • Al-Ifaq TV, channel of Nuri al-Maliki
  • Al-Rasheed TV
  • Ahlulbayt TV
    Ahlulbayt tv
    Ahlulbayt Television Network is an exclusively English-language Shia Islamic television channel. The channel was launched with much fanfare on Sky in the UK in August 2009 and two months later on the Galaxy 19 platform covering North America from its London headquarters...

  • Al Masar
  • Al Fayha
  • Ishtar TV
    Ishtar TV
    Ishtar TV is an Assyrian Chaldean Syriac broadcasting channel which has its headquarters in Ankawa, Iraq. It was established by Sarkis Aghajan and was led by George Mansour, who was Ishtar TV's first General Manager, in 2005. The language broadcasts mostly in Syriac, but Arabic and Kurdish are...

    , an Assyrian & Chaldean TV station
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