Al Hadath

Al Hadath
الحدث
	Logo used since 2023
Country	Saudi Arabia
Broadcast area	Worldwide
Headquarters	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Programming
Language	Arabic
Picture format	1080i (HDTV); 576i (SDTV);
Ownership
Parent	MBC Group
Sister channels	Al Arabiya; Al Arabiya English; Al Arabiya Business; Al Arabiya Urdu; MBC 1; MBC 2; MBC 3; MBC 4; MBC 5; MBC Action; MBC Drama; MBC Max; MBC Persia; MBC Bollywood; MBC Masr; MBC Masr 2; MBC Masr Drama; MBC Iraq;
History
Launched	12 January 2012; 13 years ago
Links
Website	alhadath.net (Arabic)

Al Hadath (Arabic: الحدث, lit. 'The Event') is a Saudi Arabian state-owned Arabic-language interactive television news channel that focuses primarily on political developments in the Arab world. It operates as a sister channel to Al Arabiya and serves as an extension of its coverage, offering in-depth reports and live updates on breaking news events.^[1]

The channel is accessible internationally and is available in the United Kingdom via the Vision TV streaming platform on the British Freeview service. From 28 March 2022, it became available alongside Al Arabiya on Freeview channel 273.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Programmes

Egyptian street
Face2face
Al Hadath all eye
Points-of-views

Criticism

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement's Arabic-language account published a call to boycott al-Hadath along with its sister channel Al Arabiya for being what they called "the mouthpieces of the Israeli enemy that speak Arabic".^[5]