MBC Max

{{Short description|Middle-Eastern television channel launched in 2008}}

{{Infobox television channel

| name = MBC Max

| logo = MBC Max Logo.svg

| logo_caption =

| logo_size =

| image =

| launch_date = {{Start date and age|2008|10|26|df=y}}

| language = English
Arabic (subtitles)

| picture_format = 1080i (HDTV)
(downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)

| owner = MBC Group

| area = Middle East and North Africa

| network = Middle East Broadcasting Center

| headquarters = Dubai, United Arab Emirates

| sister_channels = MBC 1
MBC 2
MBC 3
MBC 4
MBC 5
MBC Drama
MBC Action
MBC Persia
Al Arabiya
Wanasah
Al Hadath
MBC+ Power
MBC Variety HD
MBC Bollywood
MBC Masr
MBC Masr 2
MBC Iraq
SSC

| timeshift_service =

| website =

| terr_serv_1 = Oqaab
(Afghanistan)

| terr_chan_1 = Channel 52

| online_serv_1 = YouTube

| online_chan_1 = [https://www.youtube.com/MBCMAX Watch online] (SD)

}}

MBC Max (stylized as MBC MAX) is a free-to-air movie channel that broadcasts non-stop Hollywood films and is an alternative to its sister channel MBC 2.{{Cite web|date=2022-06-18|website=youtube.com|title=الأنسة فرح أول أيام عيد الأضحى المبارك 7KSA على mbc max عيد سعيد|access-date=2023-12-15|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKkR9XjJnGg}}{{Cite web|date=2021-09-28|website=youtube.com|title=MBC MAX - برعاية - الأنسة فرح - 2021|access-date=2023-12-15|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrtOCKMD1Q}}{{Cite web|date=2016-06-19|website=youtube.com|title=LOVE - MBC MAX|access-date=2023-12-15|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAxuUCtP6s0}}{{Cite web|date=2016-06-19|website=youtube.com|title=MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY - MBC MAX|access-date=2023-12-15|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDo-BVtbB_o}}{{Cite web|date=2014-08-31|website=youtube.com|title=Animation Friday July 2011|access-date=2023-12-15|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13EskGY0Pxw}}{{Cite web|date=2014-08-31|website=youtube.com|title=Imagine That Promo|access-date=2023-12-15|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV7bTYT70AA}}{{Cite web|date=2014-09-01|website=youtube.com|title=Dance Season 2013|access-date=2023-12-15|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S0qXfRpURg}}{{Cite web|date=2022-11-05|website=youtube.com|title=برومو مسلسل اكثر من حب على قناة mbc max 2019|access-date=2024-12-19|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4QlBjYP04k}}

MBC Max HD was launched on 1 July 2011.

History

The channel was launched as a test broadcast on 22 October 2008. During that time, it would continuously show its own promotional TV ad on loop. The channel's official launch date was the 26 October at 7:00 pm U.A.E. time.[http://www.ameinfo.com/172873.html MBC MAX new channel to complement MBC2 | mbc Group | AMEinfo.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217030557/http://www.ameinfo.com/172873.html |date=2008-12-17 }} Its first aired film was Spider-Man.

Content

MBC Max shows films with milder, more family-friendly content compared to MBC 2. MBC Max may not show horror films and other related genres. Furthermore, the channel does not show any film that contains extreme forms of violence. MBC Max even has slightly more censorship than MBC 2, but mostly with the audio, simply removing the majority of a film's bad language, as well as bigger cuts of other censored and sexual scenes.

MBC Max also features MBC 4 and MBC Action prints of animated and family films, always broadcasting in the middle of the afternoon U.A.E. time, as these films feature the same MBC 4-based and MBC Action-based, higher-level censorship. (This only applies to films that were originally on MBC 4 and MBC Action, as the animated and family films that premiered on MBC Max did not feature such censorship, even though many of those films later appeared on MBC 4 and MBC Action, unsurprisingly featuring censorship.)

Despite MBC Max's reputation for broadcasting mild films, it does broadcast certain R-rated films, such as dramas and comedies, including Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Cheaper by the Dozen, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Around the World in 80 Days, Robots, Camp Rock, Nim's Island, Bridge to Terabithia and Me, Myself & Irene, although the audio was heavily edited since the film contained strong language. It is only important to the channel that films do not feature extreme visual violence and/or sexual themes.

Additionally, MBC Max broadcasts classical films more often than MBC 2, since the majority of Hollywood films from the 1960s and earlier are considered mild by today's standards.