Rumors say that ATV might be sold to ART (Arab Radio & Television). ATV is a new independent Jordanian TV station that was supposed to be launched last August, but few “complications” suddenly popped-up when the station was about to broadcast.

Some people say that the government is trying to force ATV’s owners to sell it to ART, which is a Pay TV network owned by a Saudi Sheikh. Which in my opinion raises a flag over the so claimed media liberation in Jordan.

The owner of ATV is a guy who changed the media scene in Jordan; he owns AlGhad newspaper, AlWaseet classified, Fann FM, Rotana FM and a collection of top-selling magazines (Layalina, Viva, Venture…), and now ATV.

But I guess Karma is a bitch. If we go back 4 years, at that time Fann FM was launched even that the private sector wasn’t allowed to own a radio station yet, somehow they managed to do it, but now things changed.

Karma is a bitch.

Had to share it, I saw this ad yesterday in AlGhad newspaper with a silly mistake in the header. This ad costs more than 1,000 JD’s (it’s on the first page of the third section). For those who don’t speak Arabic there is a letter “q” that is being spelled in many different ways; ‘g’, ‘a’ and ‘k’ in addition to the original way, in this ad it was written as an ‘a’ but this is wrong since it should be written as an ‘q’ no matter how you are gonna say it.

Today I was invited to have lunch at Fuddruckers, they had soft launch today and I guess they are going official soon. The place was really nice, I liked the decorations and the foooood was goooood! The overall experience was much better than the previous one; for those who don’t know Fuddruckers was operating in Amman in the past but then closed couple of years ago.