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British Shia Muslim TV channel

Not to be confused with Ahl-e-Bait TV.

Television channel

Ahlulbayt Television Network is the first exclusively English-language ShiaIslamictelevision channel.^[1] The channel was launched with much fanfare on Sky in the UK on 17 August 2009 and two months later on the Galaxy 19 platform covering North America from its London headquarters.

A few months into its operations it also expanded to Atlantic Bird 4A (Nilesat) which covers the Middle East and North Africa.^[2] The channel now broadcasts by satellite only from Astra 2G at 28.2°E^[3]

The nonprofit religious channel, whose name is Arabic for the 'Holy Household', referring to the progeny of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, is staffed by British professionals from various backgrounds.

In an interview in 2004 with a Kuwaiti magazine, Sayed Mahdi al-Modarresi had announced his hopes to launch the channel to "show the true, undistorted nature of Islam and