Ajyal

Country	Saudi Arabia (first days of broadcast in 2009) Arab world
Headquarters	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Programming
Language(s)	Arabic
Picture format	480i (2010-2014, pillarboxed 16:9 SDTV on YouTube streams) 576i (2014-2018, 4:3 - 16:9 SDTV on YouTube streams)
Ownership
Owner	Saudi Broadcasting Authority
History
Launched	21 September 2009 (2009-09-21)
Closed	23 July 2018 (2018-07-23)

Ajyal TV/TV5 Saudi Ajyal (lit. "generations") was a free-to-air children's television channel owned by the Saudi Broadcasting Authority. It was launched on Eid al-Fitr in 2009. The channel offered a variety of educational and entertaining programs for children of all ages, including cartoons, live-action shows (which are usually in-house productions), in addition to national holidays of Saudi Arabia^[1] and religious programs (usually in the month of Ramadan).

History

As of this writing (December 2023), not much is known about the channel's beginning. The test broadcast beginning was around very late June-very early July.^[2] What is known, however, is that the channel launched on Eid al-Fitr of 2009.

In 2014, the channel rebranded with a brand new look. The channel closed in 2018 because the president of the Saudi Broadcasting Authority wanted to merge Ajyal TV with Saudi 1.

In house programming

The channel has presented and produced many programs. A partial list of them:

• 'Asdeqa 'Ajyal is the main program of the channel through a daily live broadcast at 5pm which was daily except Friday and Saturday. The program offers a variety of paragraphs in which information, benefit, guidance, advice, fun and direct communication with its child viewers.
• Week-End: It is a weekly program that overlooks viewers every Saturday at 10AM live, presented by Abdul Rahman Al-Zahrani, Ghadeer Al-Balushi, Joanna Talal and Fawaz Al-Qabi.
• Win with Rabih: A program of competitions and challenges between two teams of the public, presented by Fawaz Al-Qabi and Ghadeer Al-Balushi.

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