Setback for a Pan-Maghreb TV Channel: Nessma TV Likely to Fold

The owners of Nessma TV are facing the nightmare scenario, challenging their belief that North Africa’s Maghreb region needed a common broadcast platform. Largely owned by Tunisian businessman Tarek Ben Ammar, Nessma TV is finding hard to operate in the region.

Competition on the Tunisian market is making it difficult to get advertisers to pay attention. In Morocco, viewers manage to get access without paying and in Algeria the issue is of a political nature. Authorities in Algiers are now asking Nessma to discontinue operating on the Algerian territory even before it started operating. Continue here. [Not a subscriber? Click here.]   Short bio of Tarek Ben Ammar.