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LBCI Television Breaks Away from Samir Geagea’s Lebanese Forces

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LBCI, one of Lebanon’s leading television stations, in an unexpected move has announced its independence from the Lebanese Forces, the Christian party it has been associated with since it was founded in 1985.
As Safir newspaper reported Thursday that Pierre Daher, executive director of the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International, in a major restructuring drive declared the station’s break away from the LF and its leader Samir Geagea.

Daher reportedly called his employees for an urgent meeting during which he said that he is not ready to sacrifice the station ‘that we built with our sweat, blood and tears… to turn it into an LF station, which would no longer be for all the Lebanese and the Arabs.”

As Safir said Daher emphasized that the move was part of a plan to protect the station and ensure its continuity and professional standing.

Daher also carried out administrative changes, the paper said without giving further details.

LBCI, the first private television station in Lebanon, was founded ten years after the 1975 outbreak of the Civil War and was heavily associated with the LF.

As a result of its political affiliation, the station was often targeted by the artillery shells of factions rivaling the right-wing Christian party. Its journalists have also been subjected to violence.

The most recent attack against the station was the Sept. car bomb explosion against its leading anchorwoman May Chidiac who lost her left leg and arm in the blast.

Chidiac, who was well known as an LF sympathizer, was also a staunch critic of Syria. The attack against her was one of a string of bombings aimed at anti-Syrian figures including the Feb. 2005 blast that killed former premier Rafik Hariri.

Since its onset, LBCI rose to become one of the highest rated stations in Lebanon. It went global in 1996 when it launched the LBC Satellite channel, al Fadaiya al Lubnaniya, that broadcasts to audiences in the Arab world. It now has several channels covering Europe, North America and Australia.

The station’s regional and international outreach happened when Geagea was serving an 11-year jail sentence for crimes committed during the war.

After his release in 2005, LBCI went back to covering the LF chief prominently by assigning a journalist to stay with him at his Cedars mountain resort in north Lebanon where he chose to live out of security concerns.

Naharnet


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Posted by PK on 06.01.06 @ 10:51 am |

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14 Comments. Add your own...

  • 1. Rody | June 1st, 2006 at 11:36 pm

    ya3neh, its not right wat LBCI is doing, it is known dat its for the LF from longtime ago….i guess if LBCI do not agree, dey should at least give a big percentage to the LF, la2ano 7a2on.

  • 2. motfeh | June 4th, 2006 at 3:18 pm

    mesh 7a2on abadan. el LBC ma bteswa shi bala Pierrot. This is a business decision, with the benediction of LF management. Period.

  • 3. sam | June 8th, 2006 at 11:56 pm

    business decision, ya motfeh ma he2tak isem 3ala msama motfer badi is2alak iza ken bayak sayir fi hek habariyi bit2olou halas ya baba ma diz3al ch7ad 3atari2 haydi business decision….. wala chou ahhhhhhhhhh ya hal libneniyi lezim tidirsou kil zeroub ou kil chahler sayra bi 2iyem el a7des + kil we7id chou ken yi oul ou chou mawe2fou ou kilmetou ou housousan kam chahes bi hal zourouf …………ou tchouf kif el kil ken mhalat bas fi min aktar min min ou tchouf min m kamal bil halat zetou ou 7ebib ywadina 3ala zet el hezou2 ……………ala yise3dak ya lebnen wala bi ahbarkoun el 7elwi michte2 enzal 3ala lebnen nezil ba3id chaher la2anou 7esis mala7 2e2dir choufou ba3et hal sayfiyi bi hal 3a2let li kam we7id 3am bi fakrou fiyoun …………………………………………………………………………

  • 4. mona | August 22nd, 2006 at 4:45 pm

    well its a good thing what is done but i wounder for the years that passed to the years that r coming r we going to find a neutral polition or a neutral tv station or radio to follow and trust that is welling to work for a better lebanon well i wish i can believe this after 14 march we dreamt that a change is going to happen but i was disappointed and disguraged i regret my voye for the parlement i engourage the honest people even to leave this country, a country that is not found for honest and good people i alresdy did and i hope i can get all my familly to leave .

  • 5. mona | August 22nd, 2006 at 4:55 pm

    I REGRET MY VOTE

  • 6. raeda al arab | October 5th, 2006 at 8:17 am

    i like lbc

  • 7. christine joseph el-khoury | November 25th, 2006 at 11:28 am

    I, as a lebanese christian girl I watch lbc the lebanese tv station.LBC sends the message to all the lebanese people by its very strong and powerful programms as well its reporters and journalists.My ambition is to make my country lebanon a place much better and to countinue the letter of our beloved martyr.Don’t u all ever think about leaving this country because if u stay and think deaply enough u will see that u should stay here .
    LEBANON/BIKFAYA

  • 8. issam ghallab | December 12th, 2006 at 12:13 am

    DEARS I WANT TO ASK ABOUT THE LEGALE REPRESATETIVE OF THE LEBANES FORCES IN VENEZUELA SO AS TO TALLK WITH HIM REGARDING THE EXCEPLOSIVE LEBANON…-ANTICIPANDO-

  • 9. sheikho | April 26th, 2007 at 12:33 pm

    ya libnaniyi fi2o ba2a . ya libnaniyi fat7o raskon meen min kil hal zo3ama 3am bya3tina li2mit 3ayshna . killon rakdin 3a masali7on wlamma youla3 l balad byerkabo bi tayarat hinni wiwladon wbifillo bidallo sha3b llibnani 3am byit2atal . khalass kilna mish mistafidin min kil hal li3ab siyasiyeh badna n3ish , badna nishtighil , badna n2ammin mosta2balna wma badna nasafir .

    alla yihdi sha3ib llibnani wyibti3id 3an kill siyasyiiiiiiiiin .

  • 10. SERYANI | June 12th, 2007 at 11:47 pm

    I can not believe this. The only major christian channel is not a real christian channel anymore. Why can not all christians be united? I do not get it!

  • 11. jean | November 7th, 2007 at 6:32 pm

    hi ana jean allah ouwet

  • 12. racha | November 16th, 2007 at 4:04 am

    hey, 2awwal chi officiellement , ma 2eloun 7a2 bel LBC ya3mlo heik cz hayda 7a2 2e3leme 2enno yotla3 l 7akim 3al LBC, kel l 2atraf l siyesiyye lezem totla3 cz hayde m7atta 2e3lemiyye lal kel!!!especially 2enno kelna mna3ref min 3am yed3ama lal LBC w even pierre daher bya3ref houwwe chou (men jouwwa)!!!!!!!so hal 7araket l mech mazbouta halla2 ma 2ela lzoum !!!!!!!w halla2 lezem ne7na l masi7iyye nkoun ma3 ba3dna aktar w aktar , 7alna net3allam!!!!!!!

  • 13. georgio | November 17th, 2007 at 8:35 am

    pierre daher akbar 2bn sharmouta laou mn l 2ouet ma ken shii ne7na l 3melne 3alam hala2 sar mtel aoun reked wara l massara w souria yala bassita ALLAH 2OUET HAKIM W BASS…..

  • 14. fouad | September 3rd, 2008 at 7:00 pm

    You cannot change the color of your skin!
    whether u are here or there, they will know; u are lebanese.

    and the world will not help you. But the one who live down the street or few blocks away is ur best friend. and ur best choice!

    i lived 16 years and i moved to montreal, and, after all this time, i read today on september 03 2008 13 coments and i still see man angry not willing to find peace nor forgiveness!

    no matter what religion you have, the way to god has always been by forgiving and loving one another!

    if it is power and money u want take it.. order a tree it will not move, order a rock it will not respond!

    only if i could make u understand, folow no man, but the way to god if u believe or the way to a peacful and joyful moment if u do not!

    sometimes u must not just turn the page, but u have to rip it off!

    after all… i love lebanon from north to south, and i love it so much that every man that whiches the best for it is my brother and every man who live their is more than welcome.

    true i left, but i left because the people have a lot to meet in their eyes. tho, i really think they are the best people i have ever known!

    simply, peace to everyone!
    and to all my friend!
    chta2nelkoun!



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