MBC Action
MBC Action is a free-to-air satellite TV channel that screens films and television programs from the action genre began a terrestrial area in the Arab World. Programs are subtitled in Standard Arabic with DVB-T2 only. It is available in the Arab world by satellites Badr-4 and Nilesat 102.[1][2] It was launched on 5 March 2007 at 6:00 P.M. (GMT) with the Pilot episode of the TV series Lost which, along with Prison Break and The 4400, are one of MBC Action's biggest coups. It also showed new episodes of other shows like 24 and Pimp My Ride. The channel also airs the International Fight League. It also shows action movies on a daily basis. It is aimed mainly at male audiences, unlike its sister channel MBC 4 which is aimed at female audiences.[3]
MBC Action | |
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Launched | 5 March 2007 |
Owned by | Middle East Broadcasting Center |
Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) 576i (SDTV) |
Broadcast area | Middle East and North Africa |
Headquarters | Dubai Media City |
Website | http://www.mbc.net/en/mbc-action.html |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Oqaab (Afghanistan) | Channel 57 |
Satellite | |
Badr-7 (Persian Gulf & Levant) |
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Badr-5 (Maghreb) |
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Eutelsat 7WA (Maghreb) |
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beIN (MENA) | Channel 68 (SD) |
IPTV | |
MT Box (Morocco) | Channel 73 (SD) |
On 1 July 2011, MBC Action HD was launched.
Programming
Current programming
- 24
- 50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy
- Action Ya Dawry
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Bones (season 10)
- Breaking the Magician's Code Magic
- Caught on Camera With Nick Cannon
- Cold Case (season 7)
- CUT
- Don't Trust Andrew Mayne, a A&E show
- Drive on NBCSN
- Eish El Dor
- Lost (TV series)
- Ma3ak Khabar
- MBC Driven
- Most Daring
- Most Shocking
- NCIS: Los Angeles
- NCIS: New Orleans
- The Amazing Race
- The Blacklist
- The Mentalist (season 7)
- Three Kingdoms
- Top 20 Funniest
- Top Gear (UK version)
- Top Gear (US version)
- WWE Afterburn
- WWE Main Event
- WWE Raw
Former programming
- Action Ya Eyal
- Alcatraz
- Alias
- Angel
- Brainiac: Science Abuse
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Bullrun
- Cold Case
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- CSI: Miami
- CSI:NY
- Fear Itself
- Formula E
- Fringe
- International Fight League
- Jericho
- Karen Sisco
- Killer Instinct
- Las Vegas
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- Lesh La'a? (Why Not?)
- Lip Sync Battle (continues to broadcast on OSN channels)
- Martial Law
- Medical Investigation
- Miami Vice
- Nash Bridges
- NCIS (Los Angeles version is currently available on MBC Action)
- Phoenix Fighting Championship (stopped)
- Pimp My Ride
- Robbery Homicide Division
- Rush
- Shark
- Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge (stopped)
- Supernatural (season 5)
- Survivor (stopped)
- The A-Team
- The Carbonaro Effect
- The District
- The Dukes of Hazzard
- The Inside
- The Unit
- The X-Files
- Thief
- Threshold
- Top 20 Countdown: Most Shocking
- Without a Trace
- World's Most Amazing Videos
- World's Wildest Police Videos
- WWE SmackDown
- WWE Superstars
- WWE Wal3ooha
References
- "Nilesat 102". Lyngsat. Retrieved 2007-02-28.
- "BADR4". Lyngsat. Retrieved 2007-02-28.
- "MBC Group launches MBC Action aimed at a male audience". Media Middle Eme="MBCaction2". Archived from the original on 2007-03-06. Retrieved 2007-02-28.