Rotana Media Group

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Rotana Group

Company type	Private
Industry	Music Television Radio Media services
Founded	1987
Headquarters	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Area served	Middle East Africa Asia Europe
Key people	Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud, CEO
Owner	Kingdom Holding Company
Website	rotana.net/en

Rotana Media Group, commonly known as Rotana (Arabic: روتانا, romanized: Rōtānā), is a Saudi Arabian entertainment company. It is primarily owned by Saudi prince Al Waleed bin Talal through Kingdom Holding Company.^{[citation needed]}

The media conglomerate includes a film production company (Rotana Studios), free to air television stations (Rotana TV), music channels (Rotana Radio), a record label (Rotana Music Group) and others businesses.^{[citation needed]}

Rotana was founded by Ibrahim Nagro and his brothers, with a 50% share to the Saudi business man Saleeh Kameel.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, Al Waleed increased his stake to 100 percent, after initially acquiring a 48 percent stake in 2002. He developed Rotana Music Channel as a 24-hour free-to-air service for Rotana artists. This was followed by Rotana 2, Rotana Clip, augmented with SMS, and Rotana 3 for classical Arab music, followed by a movie channel.^[1]

Rotana Records is a record label with over 100 signed artists.^{[2][better source needed]}

Rotana is a series of radio stations belonging to Rotana Group. Rotana Radio broadcasts in a number of Arab countries and plays almost exclusively music released by Rotana Records.^{[citation needed]}

Stations currently broadcasting:

• Lebanon: Radio Rotana Delta
• Jordan: Radio Rotana Jordan
• Saudi Arabia: Radio Rotana FM Saudi Arabia^{[3][better source needed]}
• Syria: Radio Style FM

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• Rotana Khalijiah (general entertainment)
• Rotana Drama (drama channel) - formerly known as "Rotana Masriya" from 2011 until 2017
• LBC Sat (general entertainment) - previously known as "Al Fadaiyyah al Lubnaniyyah"
• Rotana Cinema KSA & Rotana Cinema Egypt (Movies channel) - A movie channel established in 2005 that broadcasts exclusively films in Arabic
• Rotana Classic (classic movies) - A free to air satellite television specialty channel
• Rotana Aflam (films channel) - A free to air satellite television channel was launched in 2012.
• Rotana Clip (music clips channel)
• Rotana Mousica (music channel)
• Al Resalah (Islamic religious channel)
• Rotana Kids (children channel) - Launched in 2020.
• Rotana Comedy (comedy channel)

• Official Bella Rotana Group website