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Title

Transnational Television and Asymmetrical Interdependence in the Arab World: The Growing Influence of the Lebanese Satellite Broadcasters

Author(s)

Marwan M. Kraidy, University of PennsylvaniaFollow

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of this Version

9-1-2000

Comments

Kraidy, Marwan. (2000). Transnational Television and Asymmetrical Interdependence in the Arab World: The Growing Influence of the Lebanese Satellite Broadcasters. Transnational Broadcasting Studies, Issue 5. http://www.tbsjournal.com/Archives/Fall00/fall00.html

NOTE: At the time of publication, author Marwan Kraidy was affiliated with the University of North Dakota. Currenlty (March 2013), he is a faculty member at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Abstract

In spite of its small size, Lebanon is a major player in transnational satellite television in the Arab world, so broadcasters and researchers alike are wondering about the implications of the return of Rafik al-Hariri to power. Hariri, appointed prime minister shortly before the publication of this issue of TBS, is not just a construction magnate as the news agencies like to describe him, but has emerged in the 1990s as a media baron as well. Hariri's Future Television has competed with the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International (LBCI) for the leading spot among lebanese transnational satellite broadcasters.