Beneficiary Group
Companies and institutions interested in providing broadcasting and television channel services.
The provided text describes a service for operating a satellite uplink station for content distribution purposes. It enables the creation, operation, and maintenance of mobile satellite communication equipment such as Satellite News Gathering (SNG) vehicles and specialized satellite broadcast phones for live broadcasting of sports, news, politics, and cultural events to aggregation platforms connected to the fixed infrastructure for uplinking. Cost of service: Commercial purposes: 90,000 SAR Personal purposes: 30,000 SAR
License duration: 3 years
Access the online services portal.
Select media licenses.
Choose the service (License for terrestrial broadcast station).
Complete the required information.
The license applicant must have a legal representative before the General Authority for Audiovisual Media.
Commit to the mechanism set by the Council regarding the services and the financial consideration for those services.
The applicant must be the owner of the institution(s) or the manager of the company/companies.
Provide evidence of payment of the financial consideration, and the use of frequency spectrum according to the approved financial consideration list for frequency spectrum by the Communications and Information Technology Commission.
A commercial registration that includes the required media activity.
The applicant must have a specific address (national address).
The applicant's identification must be valid (national ID – resident ID – passport).
Companies and institutions interested in providing broadcasting and television channel services.
30 days
90,000 SAR
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