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	HU OSA 378-0-1
Fonds 378:	Monitoring of the Iraqi and Kurdish Television
Series 1:	Monitoring of the Iraqi Television

Date(s) 2003

Extent and medium 61 VHS, 2 linear meters

Scope and content

500 hours of off-air recordings of broadcasts of the Iraqi State Television (IST) March 17 - April 7, 2003.
Programs on the IST ran 24 hours/day, but since the war on Iraq started, several intermissions have occurred due to attacks. Broadcasting broke down on early April 7, 2003.
The recorded IST programs show a great variety: from hourly news blocks through political commentaries and roundtable discussions on the ongoing war to musical-patriotic propaganda clips. On Fridays lengthy religious programs were broadcast. The leader of the country, Saddam Hussein was also shown on various occasions. Of special interest are the English language press conferences held by the Iraqi Information Minister.

System of arrangement

• Arranged chronologically.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright is held by the producer: Iraqi State Television.

Language/scripts of material Arabic, English

Finding aids

• 61 containers

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed by Samer Al-Ogaidi and Frigyes Barabás May - July 2003; described by Miklós Tamási, April 2003
Online version updated 17 November 2009