MBC 4: Difference between revisions

{{Shortshort description|Middle-Eastern television channel launched in 2005}}

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'''MBC 4''' is a television channel in the Middle East. It was launched on 1 February 2005 at 5:00 P.M. (GMT) and is owned by the [[Middle East Broadcasting Center]]. MBC 4 airs international programmes with [[Arabic language]] subtitles. ProgrammingIts programming is targeted towards women.

{{Mainmain|List of programmes broadcast by MBC 4}}

MBC 4 airs series and talk shows<ref>{{cite book | last1=Rinnawi | first1=K. | last2=Mellor | first2=N. | last3=Dajani | first3=N. | last4=Ayish | first4=M.I. | title=Arab Media: Globalization and Emerging Media Industries | publisher=Polity Press | series=Global Media and Communication | year=2013 | isbn=978-0-7456-3736-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GoU-NRhn1agC&pg=PT23 | access-date=December 24, 2022 | page=23}}</ref> from the United States, Turkey,<ref>{{cite book | last=Mingant | first=N. | title=Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East: A History of Circulation | publisher=State University of New York Press | series=SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema | year=2022 | isbn=978-1-4384-8856-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WCRbEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2010 | access-date=December 24, 2022 | page=2010}}</ref> United Kingdom, and Australia,<ref>{{cite book | last1=Artz | first1=L. | last2=Kamalipour | first2=Y.R. | title=The Media Globe: Trends in International Mass Media | publisher=Rowman & Littlefield | series=G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series | year=2007 | isbn=978-0-7425-4094-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w2RjAAAAMAAJ | access-date=December 24, 2022 | page=84}}</ref> subtitled in [[Arabic language|Arabic]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Faiq | first=S. | title=Arabic Translation Across Discourses | publisher=Taylor & Francis | series=Routledge Studies in Language and Identity | year=2019 | isbn=978-1-351-06337-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UT33DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA219 | language=eu | access-date=December 24, 2022 | page=219}}</ref> Kissing or intimate scenes are typically edited out of programs from other countries.<ref>{{cite book | last=Hammond | first=A. | title=What the Arabs Think of America | publisher=Greenwood World Pub. | year=2007 | isbn=978-1-84645-000-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZXtAAAAMAAJ | access-date=December 24, 2022 | page=41}}</ref>

Some programmes that have aired on MBC4 include ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'', ''[[Seinfeld]]'', ''[[The Early Show]]'', ''[[Jeopardy!]]'', ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'',<ref name=poplak>{{cite book | last=Poplak | first=R. | title=Sheikhs Batmobile: In Pursuit Of American Pop Culture In The Muslim World | publisher=Penguin Canada | year=2009 | isbn=978-0-14-317289-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w-R7R9XxwfUC&pg=PT99 | access-date=December 24, 2022 | page=99}}</ref> ''[[Two and a Half Men]]'',<ref>{{cite book | last1=Ranzato | first1=I. | last2=Zanotti | first2=S. | title=Linguistic and Cultural Representation in Audiovisual Translation | publisher=Taylor & Francis | series=Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies | year=2018 | isbn=978-1-351-97638-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VxdSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT95 | access-date=December 24, 2022 | pages=94–95}}</ref> ''[[America's Got Talent]]'', ''[[American Idol]]'', ''[[Oprah]]'', ''[[Friends]]'', ''[[So You Think You Can Dance]]'', ''[[The Late Show with David Letterman]]'', ''[[The Talk (talk show)|The Talk]]'', ''[[The Dr. Oz Show]]'', ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'', ''[[Ringer (TV series)|Ringer]]'',<ref>{{cite journal | journal=Forum for World Literature Studies | volume=13 | issue=4 | date=4 December 2021 | page=714 | last=Alghamdi | first=Mohammed Ghazi | title=Neocolonizing the Nation: American Pop Culture and Saudi Television | id={{Gale|A702035711}}}}</ref> and ''[[Desperate Housewives]]''.<ref>{{cite newspapernews | newspaper=The Guardian | date=8 December 2010 | page=8 | title=The US embassy cables Middle East | id={{Gale|A243810066}}}}</ref>

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