LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International المؤسسةاللبنانيةللإرسالانترناسيونال) is a news and entertainment television channel based in Lebanon. It was founded in 1992 and entity established in 1985 by acquiring assets, logos during Lebanese Civil War by the Lebanese Forces.
LBCI is the number one television of Lebanon. LBCI is possessed by a prominent businessman group of Lebanon. The channel began broadcasting globally in 1996 after launched its satellite channel with name Al-Dahabiya. Al-Lubnaniya (الفضائيةاللبنانية) provide coverage to America, Australia, Europe and the Arab world.
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General Information
Sr. No | Contents | Details |
1 | Launched Date | August 23, 1985 |
2 | Country | Lebanon |
3 | Owner | Group of Lebanese businessmen |
4 | Type | Broadcast and television network |
5 | Language | Arabic |
6 | Broadcast area | Lebanon Americas Middle East Australia Europe Africa |
7 | CEO& Chairman | Pierre El Daher |
Availability
Cable Availability | ||
1 | Numericable | Channel 715 |
IPTV | ||
2 | Freebox TV | Channel 759 |
LBC Lebanon Live Stream was founded in 1985, but at that time it was militarily and financially weakened by Lebanese civil war. After ended the war leader Samir Geagea was imprisoned in 1994. Then Pierre El Daher in 1992 founded LBCI with other shareholders and registered the channel at the Commercial Register of Baabda.
The LBCsat was launched in April by them, a free satellite channel. Founder of LMH CompanySalehKamel (Lebanese Media Holding, owner of 49% of LBC SAT and Pac’sshares) and Al Waleed bin Talal replaced Kamel in LMH in 2003.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal became the largest shareholder after acquiring majority assets in PAC (a content provider for both LBCI and LBC SAT). Rupert Murdoch in 2010 joined these two groups LBC Sat and PAC and merged with Rotana.
LBC SAT and AL HAYAT at the end of 2002 joined their news program. LBC SAT daily news bulletin was called the “Al-Hayat-LBC SAT news bulletin”, but it ended in 2010. It was the era of the channel after the war.
Programming
LBCI is a local channel in Lebanon and broadcasts a variety of programs for their viewers including talk shows, drama series, news and reality television shows under different branding. Some notable programs of the channel are listed below
Sr. No | programs | Category |
1 | AhmarBelKhat El Arid (أحمربالخطالعريض) | Social talk show |
2 | Star Academy Arab world | Musical show |
3 | The Winner Is | American game show |
4 | The Voice | News program |
5 | Top Chef Middle East | Reality television Competition |
6 | BasmatWatan (ب س م ا ت و ط ن) | Political satire/comedy program |
7 | Kids Power | Children program |
8 | The Brothers Grunt | Animated television series |
9 | Celebrity Duets Arab World | American musical program |
10 | Splash! | British television series |
11 | Survivor | Entertainment /Reality competition |
12 | Miss Lebanon | French TV show |
13 | KalamEnnas | Talk Show |
14 | Miss Universe | Beauty show |
15 | Beirut I Love You | Lebanese television/web-series |
16 | Ebni | Lebanese drama series |
17 | Amir El Leil | Romantic drama series |
18 | Talbin el ereb | Lebanese drama series |
19 | Sarah | Family television series |
20 | Harim AL Sultan 3 | Turkish historical series |
21 | Bab Idriss | Lebanese historical series |
22 | Ghazl el banet | Comedy series |