LUXEMBOURG – The Kurdistan Region’s Rudaw TV has gone global through its latest partnership with ENEX, the international alliance of TV broadcasters.
Partnering with ENEX will widen the Rudaw network and guarantees an exchange of timely news material and footage of crucial events across the world that are of interest to the network’s audience.
“We very happy to be part of the ENEX global alliance and join with our fellow media leaders in cooperating on news operations,” the Director General of Rudaw Media Network Ako Mohammed said.
“Rudaw has raised the standards of broadcast journalism in the Kurdistan Region and partnering with ENEX serves our goal of joining and cooperating with a network of reputable TV channels across the world,” a Rudaw spokesperson said.
ENEX said that for the first time in its 21 year history the alliance passed the 50 member milestone with its newest partner joining from the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq.
“ENEX has experienced rapid growth in the last two years with the organization expanding further into Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia,” ENEX’s Managing Director Adrian Wells said in a statement on the network’s website.
“The Middle East is such an important center for news and ENEX is excited to now start growing its cooperation model there,” Wells said.
Based in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region, Rudaw gained this position through its extensive and successful coverage of the news in the Middle East on its 24-hour live broadcast on HD TV as well its English website and proactive social media pages.
Rudaw has correspondents in major cities such as London, Berlin, Washington, New York and Istanbul as well in cities across the Middle East that are home to Kurdish communities.
In the last year Rudaw has become a major source of news and information for a world audience through its on-the-ground coverage of the global war against the Islamic State (ISIS) in both Iraq and Syria.
Founded in 1993, ENEX members exchange content such as daily news videos and other exclusive footage and the association makes satellite capacity accessible to all its members.
According to the ENEX website, the members of the network contribute more than 25,000 news items per year to the content exchange that is facilitated by the Coordination Center in Luxembourg.
