Arabic Satellite TV, Israeli media offerings on the Boxee Box

The Boxee Box has an App to connect to LiveStation, a service that offers free access to al-Jazeera, al-Jazeera Mubashir, BBC Arabic, France 24 Arabic, Rusiya al-Youm (Russia's Arabic satellite TV station) and a number of other interesting offerings. For now, there is definitely enough content to keep me happy.

There is no access to Israel's Channel 1, Channel 2 or Channel 10 through LiveStation. I have yet to find an app on my boxee that will allow me to view Israeli news.

The boxee box web browser was unable to get the main channel 1 news program (Mabat) or any other content working. Not sure if this is an issue with flash support or with the coding of the Israel Broadcasting Authority's website (iba.org.il) or with the CastUp streaming program that they use. Radio stations on the IBA website also did not play.

I went to Galgalatz and Galatz next using the Boxee Box web browser and was also unable to get the websites to play.

After this setback, I searched the Boxee Box apps by category and looked for Radio. I was surprised to see that there were very few radio apps. I randomly clicked on TuneIn radio which said it has local radio options. I was happy to see that there was a "browse by location" option. You first select the continent you'd like to browse (Israel is under Asia), then choose Israel. There were about 5 listening options. Galgalatz and Galatz were among them (although they did not work because of a streaming error). There was a religious radio offering (Mevaser Tov or something like that), a university radio station and two other radio stations that I did not know. Other than Galgalatz and galatz, none of the other state-owned radio stations were available (e.g. Reshet A, Reshet B, Reshet G).

I was amazed that there were quite a few offerings for radio stations from the Arab world in TuneIn, so that's a plus.

I'll have to see if there are other apps out there that have additional radio offerings.