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  • Watchdogs take Hezbollah TV station off European satellites

    03/18/2005 6:04:04 AM PST · by knighthawk · 5 replies · 361+ views
    Reuters | March 18 2005
    BRUSSELS - Hezbollah's al-Manar television channel, branded a terrorist organization by the United States, will no longer be available on European satellites from Monday, media regulators said yesterday. The announcement came at a meeting of European Union broadcasting regulators in Brussels, where national watchdogs from the 25-nation bloc agreed to step up action against TV broadcasts that incite hatred or promote racism and xenophobia. Last year, a French court banned al-Manar from a satellite owned by France's Eutelsat because its broadcasts were deemed anti-Semitic and a potential threat to public order. Dutch regulators discovered that a satellite owned by New...