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'''[[Wikipedia:Kuwait|KUWAIT]]''' is a country at the north of the Persian Gulf, in the [[:Category:Middle East|Middle East]].
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'''[[Wikipedia:Kuwait|KUWAIT]]''' is a [[:Category:Middle East|Middle Eastern]] country at the north of the Persian / Arabic Gulf. It shares a land border with [[Iraq]] and [[Saudi Arabia]].
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==Profile==
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{| {{small-table}}
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|'''Country Number (N/K)'''||?||[[Selling Doctor Who|SECOND WAVE?]]
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|'''Region'''||[[:Category:Middle East|Middle East]]||
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|'''Television commenced'''||1961||
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|'''Colour System'''||1974||[[:Wikipedia:PAL|PAL]]
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|'''Language/s'''||[[Arabic]] and English||Dubbed or Subtitled
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{{Place-name
 
|First broadcast        = ?
 
|First colour broadcast = ?
 
|Colour                = ?
 
|Doctors seen          = [[Jon Pertwee stories|Pertwee]], [[Tom Baker stories|T Baker]]?
 
}}
 
  
==Population==
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==Television Stations / Channels==
  
When '''Doctor Who''' screened in Kuwait in the late 1970s, the population was 830,000, and licensed TV sets numbered 130,000 (per [[WRTH]], 1974).
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The Kuwaiti government's '''Ministry of Information''' launched the country's television service in 1961.  
  
==TV & system==
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The station's transmitters were able to broadcast across the Gulf to [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Bahrain]] and the [[United Arab Emirates]], but due to the distance, it was only on the warm summer months that reception in those countries was at its clearest. (The transmission of signals northwards from those countries to Kuwait was severely affected by temperature and other atmospheric conditions, meaning that Kuwaiti viewers could only on rarest of occasions view those broadcasts.)
  
Kuwait began its television service in XXXX.  
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Colour transmissions began in 1974 using the [[Wikipedia:PAL|PAL]] colour broadcast system.
  
Colour transmissions began in XXXX using the [[Wikipedia:PAL|PAL]] colour broadcast system.
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A second colour channel was launched in 1979. '''KTV One''' was an [[Arabic]] station, screening foreign programmes, mostly from the US, dubbed into [[Arabic]]; and '''KTV Two''' was generally an English language channel, featuring mostly UK and US imports, some of which were dubbed into [[Arabic]].  
  
There is just one television station: ''' Television of Kuwait''', a government-owned commercial broadcaster.
 
  
 
==Language/s==
 
==Language/s==
  
The main languages of Kuwait are [[Arabic]] and English.  
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The principal languages of Kuwait are [[Arabic]] and English. As with the [[United Arab Emirates]], half the population of the country are ex-patriots working in the oil industry.
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=='''DOCTOR WHO IN KUWAIT'''==
 
=='''DOCTOR WHO IN KUWAIT'''==
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{{Arabic}}
  
Kuwait was the 44th purchaser of '''Doctor Who'''; it was the tenth in the Middle East (see [[Selling Doctor Who]]).
 
  
 
==[[BBC Records]]==
 
==[[BBC Records]]==
  
Kuwait is not named in '''The Seventies''', '''The Handbook''' or '''DWM'''. The only indication that the series may have aired there was the markings on the PAL video tapes that had been returned to the BBC form [[Dubai]] in 1991 – labels attached to the tapes themselves identified a Kuwait TV broadcaster. (Of course, this might merely be a transportation sticker, rather than ones of broadcast...)
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Kuwait is not named in '''The Seventies''', '''The Handbook''', '''The Eighties''' or '''DWM'''.  
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It is noted in Richard Molesworth's book, ''WIPED!'', that some of the PAL video tapes of [[Jon Pertwee stories]] that were returned to the BBC in 1991 from the [[United Arab Emirates]] were sent via Kuwait. That in itself does not mean much, since the BBC did have at that time an enquiries office in Kuwait, so the tapes may have just been sent there from the UAE for forwarding on to London.
  
  
 
==Stories bought and broadcast==
 
==Stories bought and broadcast==
 
Unknown
 
 
The programme was supplied as PAL colour video tapes with English soundtracks.
 
 
==Origin of the tapes?==
 
Kuwait, like the other Persian Gulf states – [[Abu Dhabi]], [[Bahrain]], [[Dubai]], [[Qatar]], [[Saudi Arabia]] - all seemed to get PAL tapes of '''Doctor Who''' (Pertwees and Bakers) around the same time.
 
 
 
==Transmission==
 
==Transmission==
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==TV listings==
  
No details.  
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Several issues of the ''Kuwait Times'' from the early 1980s to 1990 were accessed, but the only listings for '''Doctor Who''' were from the [[United Arab Emirates]].  
  
==TV listings==
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The [[Bahrain]] ''Gulf Mirror'', which also listed TV schedules for most of the Gulf countries, was viewed from 1977 onwards, but that also did not contain any listings for the series on Kuwait TV.
  
'''1970s'''
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If the country is not named in '''The Eighties''', then the series probably screened after 1987 - if at all...
  
'''1980s'''
 
  
None found.
 
  
 
==Kuwait in Doctor Who==
 
==Kuwait in Doctor Who==
  
There are no instances where Kuwait is mentioned in the series.
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* Greg Sutton worked on an oil well in Kuwait ([[Inferno]])
 
 
Kuwait has been mentioned directly or indirectly in:
 
 
 
  
==References==
 
<references />
 
  
==Link==
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==Links==
 
*[[Main Page]]
 
*[[Main Page]]
 
*[[Broadcasts around the World]]
 
*[[Broadcasts around the World]]
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*[[BBC Records]]
 
*[[BBC Records]]
 
*[[Doctors]]
 
*[[Doctors]]
**[[Jon Pertwee stories]]
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**[[Jon Pertwee stories]]?
**[[Tom Baker stories]]
 
 
*[[Arabic]]
 
*[[Arabic]]
  
 
[[Category:Middle East]]
 
[[Category:Middle East]]

Latest revision as of 21:52, 23 May 2022

KUWAIT is a Middle Eastern country at the north of the Persian / Arabic Gulf. It shares a land border with Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

Profile

Country Number (N/K) ? SECOND WAVE?
Region Middle East
Television commenced 1961
Colour System 1974 PAL
Language/s Arabic and English Dubbed or Subtitled


Television Stations / Channels

The Kuwaiti government's Ministry of Information launched the country's television service in 1961.

The station's transmitters were able to broadcast across the Gulf to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, but due to the distance, it was only on the warm summer months that reception in those countries was at its clearest. (The transmission of signals northwards from those countries to Kuwait was severely affected by temperature and other atmospheric conditions, meaning that Kuwaiti viewers could only on rarest of occasions view those broadcasts.)

Colour transmissions began in 1974 using the PAL colour broadcast system.

A second colour channel was launched in 1979. KTV One was an Arabic station, screening foreign programmes, mostly from the US, dubbed into Arabic; and KTV Two was generally an English language channel, featuring mostly UK and US imports, some of which were dubbed into Arabic.


Language/s

The principal languages of Kuwait are Arabic and English. As with the United Arab Emirates, half the population of the country are ex-patriots working in the oil industry.


DOCTOR WHO IN KUWAIT

الدكتور هو


BBC Records

Kuwait is not named in The Seventies, The Handbook, The Eighties or DWM.

It is noted in Richard Molesworth's book, WIPED!, that some of the PAL video tapes of Jon Pertwee stories that were returned to the BBC in 1991 from the United Arab Emirates were sent via Kuwait. That in itself does not mean much, since the BBC did have at that time an enquiries office in Kuwait, so the tapes may have just been sent there from the UAE for forwarding on to London.


Stories bought and broadcast

Transmission

TV listings

Several issues of the Kuwait Times from the early 1980s to 1990 were accessed, but the only listings for Doctor Who were from the United Arab Emirates.

The Bahrain Gulf Mirror, which also listed TV schedules for most of the Gulf countries, was viewed from 1977 onwards, but that also did not contain any listings for the series on Kuwait TV.

If the country is not named in The Eighties, then the series probably screened after 1987 - if at all...


Kuwait in Doctor Who

  • Greg Sutton worked on an oil well in Kuwait (Inferno)


Links