Monday night's launch ran late with a procession of proclamations from various rebel and community leaders that might have bored an audience in a free country.
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"We are all looking forward to providing the people of Libya with a professional and independent service." Thousands gather for launch "The relaunch of Libya Alhurra is done in his name," he said. With the channel's airing on Monday, Albarasi paid tribute to his lost friend.
But Albarasi and his colleagues in Benghazi were determined to launch one from their nation's soil. The Gulf nation of Qatar, which has been at the forefront of Arab nations assisting the rebels, hosts a pro-rebel Libyan station out of its capital, Doha. That made it vital to reach satellite TV, which reaches an estimated 90 per cent of the Libyan public.
It also hosts a chat room that draws Libyans inside and outside the country as well as sympathetic foreigners, in English and Arabic.īut in a country where internet access has been sharply curtailed for much of the population, the channel - hosted on Livestream - remains limited in its reach. Still, their site continued, streaming video and audio reports direct from the battlefront, including audio of fighters and the sounds of whizzing bullets and whooshes of rocket launchers. Benghazi was saved that day by the first international airstrikes.Ī screen promotes the new rebel satellite TV station in Benghazi. The danger of their effort was quickly made clear: Al-Nabbous, 27, was killed in Benghazi on March 19, shot under the right eye by a sniper as he filmed rebels armed with rocket launchers preparing to confront Gadhafi's tanks as they approached the city. They started toting video cameras to protests, jerry-rigged a home satellite system and turned to the web. The channel was born out of an internet video streaming site launched by Albarasi and fellow Libyan businessman Mohammed al-Nabbous, who since the uprising began in mid-February searched for a way to show it to the world and to the Libyans themselves. I hope this shows the true colour of Libyan people and their real faith in a new, free Libya," station co-founder Zuhair Albarasi told The Associated Press from the square, which has become a rallying point for the revolt against Gadhafi. Thousands of Libyans waving flags gathered in a public square in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi to watch the first broadcasts on a large screen, celebrating a newfound freedom from 40 years of media oppression. Libya Alhurra, or "Free Libya," began broadcasting Monday night, a major step in the rebels' attempts to get its message to the Libyan public, whose main source of information on the crisis roiling their country has been Gadhafi's TV and radio. Libya's rebels have launched their first homegrown satellite TV station, trying to counter the regime's powerful media machine, which churns out Moammar Gadhafi's message, depicts the opposition as terrorists and drums up patriotic fervour by beaming images of burning buildings hit by NATO strikes.
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