Television in Lebanon

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Television in Lebanon arose as a private initiative and not a state-institution.

Lebanon, along with Iraq, was the first country in the Arab world to have indigenous television broadcasting.

Lebanon's has always had a progressive position in the Arab world, especially in terms of a liberal, open minded, multi-ethnic, often western-oriented society, and this was reflected in its television productions for many decades.

With the advent of satellite television, Lebanon's liberalism and open-society was broadcast across the Arab world on Lebanese satellite stations or Lebanese-dominated satellite televisions like MBC, ART, Orbit and Rotana, and its influence was evident in the various Arab televisions emulating the Lebanese model.