ASBU BroadcastPro ME Award 2012- BROADCAST PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR

Eng. SALEH AL MEGHAILEETH

DEPUTY MINISTER OF ENGINEERING AFFAIRS, MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND INFORMATION, SAUDI ARABIA

This is an Editor’s Choice award and is designed to recognise a lifetime of work in broadcast. Saleh Al Meghaileeth began his career as a humble Electrical Engineer at Saudi Radio in 1979 and has worked his way up the ranks to the position he holds today. Al Meghaileeth may have kept a low profile thus far in the media but he has influenced, initiated and brought to fruition several high-profile broadcast projects in Saudi Arabia. He was the head of the technical team at ASBU when the MENOS project was undertaken. He is responsible for the massive TV expansion progamme at the holy site of Makkah. He has worked behind the scenes to launch several channels including the Holy Quran channel, Sunnah Nabawiyah channel, Ajial – a children’s channel, Thakafia – a cultural channel and Equtisadiah – a business channel among others. He also played a key role in several other projects including Saudi TV’s national digital archiving centre, the country-wide DVB-T project, the upgrade of all the studios from SD to HD as well as the building of many TV and radio production studios and broadcast facilities within the Kingdom. Al Meghaileeth has held several different technical roles at Saudi Radio and TV as Technical Supervisor, Director of Engineering Affairs and Chief of Engineering before moving on to high-profile posts such as Assistant Undersecretary for Engineering Affairs, Undersecretary for International Cultural Relations and Assistant Undersecretary for Television Affairs. He has also held positions as Consultant Engineer for Saudi Council of Engineering and Chairman of the Engineering Committee at ASBU. Al Meghaileeth receives the award from Mohammed Saeed Al Shahi, CEO of DMI.