View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by WestminsterResearch WestminsterResearch http://www.westminster.ac.uk/westminsterresearch Provision, protection or participation? Approaches to regulating children’s television in Arab countries Sakr, N. This is a copy of the accepted author manuscript of the following article: Sakr, N. 2017. Provision, protection or participation? Approaches to regulating children’s television in Arab countries. Media International Australia doi:10.1177/1329878X17693933. The final definitive version is available from the publisher Sage at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878X17693933 © The Author(s) 2017 The WestminsterResearch online digital archive at the University of Westminster aims to make the research output of the University available to a wider audience. Copyright and Moral Rights remain with the authors and/or copyright owners. Whilst further distribution of specific materials from within this archive is forbidden, you may freely distribute the URL of WestminsterResearch: ((http://westminsterresearch.wmin.ac.uk/). In case of abuse or copyright appearing without permission e-mail
[email protected] Provision, protection or participation? Approaches to regulating children’s television in Arab countries Locally-made children’s television was a late arrival to the regional landscape of pan- Arab satellite television channels that mushroomed in the 1990s and 2000s. Arab governments held on to their terrestrial broadcasting monopolies well into the 2000s and those in the more populous states, such as Egypt, Syria and Morocco, provided some local content for children alongside imports. On Arab satellite channels, however, non-Arab imports dominated the small amounts of children’s content provided.