On 23 April 2011, Libyan state television antennas were hit by NATO airstrikes. Transmissions were cut off for more than 30 minutes before they could resume.

According to NATO’s mouthpiece, the target were not the antennas - since NATO respects and promotes freedom of the press - but the adjoining compound of Muammar Gaddafi.

Meanwhile, going by Saudi media reports, the U.S. Department of State asked Arabsat, the satellite management company, to suspend broadcasting by Libyan channels.

Moreover, a jamming station - located in rebel-controlled Libyan territory and coordinated with another station operating from Saudi territory - is used by Washington to obstruct any program on Arab television channels, regardless of where they are, covering the brutal repression in Bahrain.