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   Lebanon /
Media

Lebanon is a country with many newspapers. There are 30 dailies in Arabic, 3 in Armenian, 3 in French and one in English. The smallest newspapers have circulations of 5,000. The largest ones are Al-Hayat with nearly 200,000, As-Safir and An-Nahar, both with 50,000. The largest non-Arabic newspaper is L'Orient-Le-Jour with 23,000, published in French. Despite the many Armenian-speakers, none of the three Armenian newspapers have more than ca. 7,000 in circulation.
There are 4 television stations, all with Arabic as main langauge, but two of them also have programs in English and French. Lebanon operates with broadcast concessions, in the period 1996-1998, many canals were closed down by the government.
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