Long mocked by Lebanese audiences for its archaism and its gradual slide into obsolescence, Télé Liban is now on a path of rehabilitation under UNESCO auspices.Lebanon’s first public television station — and among the earliest in the Middle East — Télé Liban played a formative role since its creation in 1959, helping shape a shared cultural foundation across the country’s disparate communities. The official public broadcaster was divided into four channels: Channels 7 and 9 transmitted from its Mar Elias (Beirut) headquarters, one in French and the other in Arabic, while Channels 5 and 11 broadcast from Hazmieh.These were pioneering years. Lebanon was buoyed by prosperity — unevenly distributed — and a form of stability already weakened by the 1958 crisis. In retrospect, however, there is broad consensus that this era represented the...
Long mocked by Lebanese audiences for its archaism and its gradual slide into obsolescence, Télé Liban is now on a path of rehabilitation under UNESCO auspices.Lebanon’s first public television station — and among the earliest in the Middle East — Télé Liban played a formative role since its creation in 1959, helping shape a shared cultural foundation across the country’s disparate communities. The official public broadcaster was divided into four channels: Channels 7 and 9 transmitted from its Mar Elias (Beirut) headquarters, one in French and the other in Arabic, while Channels 5 and 11 broadcast from Hazmieh.These were pioneering years. Lebanon was buoyed by prosperity — unevenly distributed — and a form of stability already weakened by the 1958 crisis. In retrospect, however, there is broad consensus that this era...
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