Amid the chaos of flying bullets , roaming checkpoints guarded by gunmen , and the constant threat of a street battle erupting around the corner at any moment , a new underground television channel has become must-see TV for residents of Aleppo , Syria . It does n't look like much . Aleppo Today TV , with it photographic slideshow of Aleppo in happier times accompanied by Syrian music , is not what many would expect from a 24-hour news channel . But two rolling news bars at the bottom of the screen have become a vital news source for residents navigating the shifting violence in Syria 's largest city . `` Aleppo Today started at a time when a person in Aleppo might know that someone a couple of blocks away got killed , or a demonstration happened in the next neighborhood , '' wrote Omar Halabi , the assistant manager of Aleppo Today , in an e-mail to CNN . Read more : As fighting subsides , Aleppo residents find little left . Aleppo Today now broadcasts from a country neighboring Syria . Due to security concerns and because their broadcasts have been jammed by the Syrian regime at least four times , the channel 's managers do not want their base of operations disclosed . The channel 's management says it ca n't broadcast anything more than still images because it ca n't afford the bandwidth . To avoid jamming by the Syrian government , Aleppo Today 's news director said , the network uploads and beams its content through at least two other countries before it is finally sent into Syria . `` We have to be sneaky , we have to be undercover , '' said `` Ahmed , '' one of the channel 's news editors . For the safety of his family still living in Aleppo , the 23-year old Syrian , who worked as a baker until the uprising began more than 20 months ago , asked not to have his named published in full . Read more : Syrian opposition gets recognition ; fight rages on . Aleppo Today 's approach to aggregating , sourcing and writing reliable news about the violence in Aleppo put the station in the cross-hairs of the regime and boosted its popularity . `` The regime saw us as a huge target because of the unique approach we took compared to other opposition channels , '' Halabi wrote . `` The result : everybody watched our channel including regime supporters . '' In the Aleppo Today newsroom , 11 editors from Aleppo and its countryside sit in front of computers in shifts , quietly gathering reports from 70 reporters and volunteers living in and around Syria 's largest city . It can be hard to keep lines of communication open to the reporters . Electricity in Aleppo is intermittent and the Internet goes down frequently . Most of the reporters file over Skype , gChat and Facebook . There are satellite Internet and phone setups , but not everyone on staff in Syria has access to secure communications . Read more : An afternoon with a Syrian bombmaker . Ahmed describes Aleppo Today 's way of reporting : `` One reporter might say he saw a bomb in a neighborhood . If he says he saw , then we write it . But if he says he heard , then we ask other people in that area if they heard , if they did then we write . '' On particularly grim days in Aleppo , Ahmed 's Skype account , which is usually full of reporters , contacts and family members , can suddenly go quiet . These moments prompt him to scroll through the list trying to find any new developments because `` there is always something . '' The channel is trying something new through double-sourcing and its policy of censoring foul language , a hard task when many in Syria refer to the country 's president as a dog and routinely curse his supporters . Aleppo Today is also trying to remain impartial in its coverage of the opposition , according to the channel 's employees . But not everyone thinks that Aleppo Today is maintaining a balanced view . With so many opposition groups in Syria , the political landscape is full of competing organizations , political parties , and councils , many of which are vying for positions in power after what most Syrians see as the inevitable fall of Bashar al-Assad . `` I am with the opposition but I do n't want to work for the opposition , '' said Samir Kanjo , a former news editor at the channel . He left after disagreements over broadcast policy . Kanjo claimed the channel was turning into a mouthpiece for the Transitional Revolutionary Council , one of the larger political opposition groups active in Aleppo . `` We do not work for a group , we work for all Syrians , '' said Feras Dibbeh , who replaced Kanjo as the news editor . Dibbeh insisted Aleppo Today is apolitical , and funded only by concerned Syrian businessmen who prefer to remain anonymous . Those entrepreneurs apparently have plans to expand their media properties . Dibbeh showed CNN journalists a small , makeshift studio his colleagues were in the process of constructing . Dibbeh said the studio will soon be home to a new FM radio station that also will broadcast to Aleppo , yet another addition to Syria 's rapidly transforming media landscape .
Syrian TV broadcasts from a country called Syria . The content is beamed through other countries to avoid jamming by the Syrian government . It aims to be impartial about the situation in Syria , but some times it fails .