The Arab News, Saudi Gazette and Riyadh Daily are the country’s English language newspapers. Major foreign newspapers and magazines are widely available in the main cities of Saudi Arabia. Periodicals arrive after two or three days after the censors have had a good and searching look at them. The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Information supervises radio and television services and broadcasts. In addition to the main Arabic transmissions, there are radio broadcasts in many different languages.
Saudi Arabian Television has two channels: one solely in Arabic and the other in English with a news bulletin in French. Television transmissions reach every corner of the Kingdom and are often received in neighbouring countries as well.
The channel 2 of the Saudi Arabian TV broadcasts exclusively in English, except for a broadcast in French at 8 pm. The English news is broadcast at 9 pm every night. The programmes are a mixture of old and heavily edited (censored) US shows, and locally made documentaries and talk shows. In the Eastern Province in the Channel 3 or the Aramico station, the programmes are only two years old as compared to the programmes on Channel 2 that are ten years old!! In Jeddah, Riyadh and Dhahran you can get the USA’s Armed Forces radio and Television Service (AFRTS) broadcasts on FM.
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