• EXCLUSIVE: Yahoo Maktoob strikes content deal with BBC Arabic
  • by Sidra Tariq on Wednesday, 02 November 2011
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Yahoo Maktoob has finalized a content agreement with TV channel BBC Arabic, Hosam El Sokkari, head of audience at Yahoo Middle East, tells Communicate.
“We will be having [access to] all the content from the BBC Arabic television channel: news and current affairs and every single piece of production that they do,” he says. “We will launch it with a revamped news site that we will have by the end of this month or the beginning of next month.”
The deal comes hot on the heels of the October announcement by the digital media company’s US office that it has formed a strategic alliance with ABC News whereby the channel’s content will be available on Yahoo.com.
According to El Sokkari, Yahoo Maktoob also has agreements with Reuters and Al Jazeera which give it access to Reuters’ news and current affairs videos, and Al Jazeera’s production for news and current affairs as well as content from Al Jazeera’s documentary channels.

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Hosam El Sokkari- Head of audience, Yahoo Middle East

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