Pokémon in the Arab world: Difference between revisions

[[File:Miramax_international.png|200px|thumb|right|''Miramax international'' logo which appears before the opening scene of the movies.]]

[[S01|Season 01]] premiered on ''{{wp|Middle East Broadcasting Center|MBC}}'' in September 2000, and then was broadcast in syndication starting from November 27, 2000. At first only the first 12 episodes had been dubbed, so these episodes would re air on ''mbc'' over and over again for weeks before finally new episodes started airing with an updated [[List_of_Arabic_Pokémon_themes#Second_Version|theme song]].<br>Seasons [[S01|01]] and [[S02|02]] aired between 2000 and 2001.<br>[[S03|Season 03]] premiered sometime later around late 2001 or early 2002.<br>[[S04|Season 04]] premiered on ''{{wp|ART Teenz}}'' a year later on January 1, 2003.<br>[[S06|Season 06]] premiered on ''{{wp|Al Jadeed|New TV}}'' on December 10, 2005,<ref>http://www.mexat.com/vb/showthread.php?t=27436&page=63</ref> and later aired on ''{{wp|ART Teenz}}'' starting from September 24, 2006 as part of the channel's special {{wp|Ramadan}} programming.<br>[[S23|Season 23]] aired on ''{{wp|e-Junior|e-Junior}}'' in February 2021 before being released on ''[[Netflix]]'' later that summer.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/PokemonUAE/posts/3221003271335102/</ref>

The anime initially aired exclusively on '''''{{wp|Middle East Broadcasting Center|MBC (Middle East Broadcasting Center)}}''''', an independent free-to-air pan-Arab channel broadcasting via satellite.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8UqKhkm_pc</ref> But due to its immense popularity it spread rapidly to other channels, mainly local government-owned stations in different countries such as {{wp|Egypt}}, {{wp|Syria}}, {{wp|Qatar}}, {{wp|Algeria}}, {{wp|Morocco}} among others.  As it is customary for Arab Television channels to air new and exclusive programming during {{wp|Ramadan}}, many of these stations like ''{{wp|Qatar Television|Qatar TV}}'' started broadcasting the series from November 27, 2000 (the first day of Ramadan that year) right after [[S01]] had concluded its run on ''{{wp|Middle East Broadcasting Center|MBC}}''.

''{{wp|Al Jadeed|New TV}}'' started airing the series In 2004, reruns of [[Original series|the first 04 seasons]] would air every morning at 6:30am (Lebanon time) so that kids would watch it before they go to school. And by December 2005, [[S06|Season 06]] started airing exclusively on the channel,<ref>http://www.mexat.com/vb/showthread.php?t=27436&page=66</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyKfYYXuYpk</ref> but because of the inconvenient time slot this broadcast of the season didn't attract much attention and went almost unnoticed. [[S06|Season 06]] would later air on ''{{wp|ART Teenz}}'' the following Ramadan to a much wider audience reception. Sometime later [[S07|Season 07]] premiered on ''{{wp|Al Jadeed|New TV}}'', this makes ''New TV'' the only channel to have aired the Arabic dub of [[S07|Season 07]].