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; 14 years ago (2009-09-21)
Closed	23 July 2018; 5 years ago (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[edit]

As of January 2024, not much is known about the channel's beginning. The test broadcast beginning was around very late June to 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[edit]

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

• Asdiqa 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.
• Weekend: 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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