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Television In Lebanon
Television in Lebanon arose as a private initiative and not a state-institution. Lebanon was the first country in the Middle East & the Arab world to have indigenous television broadcasting.''Gale Encyclopedia of the Mideast & N. Africa: Radio and Television: Arab Countries'' Various Arab televisions emulated the Lebanese model. There are two significant television platforms in Lebanon: analogue terrestrial (14% of households) and free satellite (83% of households). There is also a relatively high penetration of cable television, but because of the high prevalence of cable television piracy, cable theft the official penetration rate is low, at less than 5%. More than 90% of Lebanese households have access to satellite television. There are 22 free-to-air satellite channels headquartered in Lebanon. There is one government-owned television channel, Tele Liban, which was established in 1959. Several TV channels are politically affiliated, and political parties are an important sour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grendizer
, also known as '' Grandizer'', ''Ufo Robot Grendizer Raids'', ''Goldrake'' and ''Goldorak'', is a Japanese manga and animated television series created by Go Nagai. The series is the third entry in the '' Mazinger'' series, later relegated into a spinoff series. The series is produced by Toei Doga and Dynamic Planning, directed by Tomoharu Katsumata, and written by Shozo Uehara. It aired on Fuji TV from October 5, 1975, to February 27, 1977. The mecha's first appearance in the United States was as a part of the Shogun Warriors line of super robot toys imported in the late 1970s by Mattel, then in Jim Terry's '' Force Five'' series. A remake of the original anime series, ''Grendizer U'', aired from July to September 2024. Plot The Vega homeworld has become unstable due to the exploiting of Vegatron, a powerful radioactive ore. Seeking to expand his militaristic empire and find a substitute planet to settle upon, the ruthless King Vega unleashes his armies—compo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belle And Sebastian (Japanese TV Series)
is an anime adaption of the 1965 novel '' Belle et Sébastien'' by French author Cécile Aubry. The series ran on the Japanese network NHK from April 7, 1981 to March 24, 1982. It consists of 52 episodes and was a co-production of MK Company, Visual 80 Productions and Toho Company, Ltd. Toshiyuki Kashiwakura was the head writer and character designs were by Shuichi Seki. The show was broadcast on French and Japanese television in 1981, with American cable network Nickelodeon picking it up in 1984. In the United Kingdom, it aired on Children's BBC in 1989 and 1990. This anime used many staffers from Nippon Animation's ''World Masterpiece Theater'' franchise, thus the look and feel is similar to that of a ''WMT'' production even though Nippon Animation itself was not involved with this series. The series has been aired in many countries outside Japan and has been dubbed and subtitled in English and numerous other languages. The English-language script was written by Eileen O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hello! Sandybell
is an anime series made by Toei Animation in 1981. It was aired in Japan by TV Asahi. In the original title when it was first made in Japan, an "E" was added to the title; "Sandybelle". Similarly to ''Silver Fang'', the show is relatively unknown in the U.S. but was quite popular in Asia, Latin America, Arab countries and Europe, particularly Scandinavia. It first aired in France in La Cinq in the late 1980s, starting on 15 April 1988. The series depicts four years in Sandybell's life as she goes from 12–16 years old. Plot ''Hello! Sandybell'' is the story of a girl who lives in Scotland with her father. She spends her time playing with her faithful dog (Oliver) and her friends. One, day she meets the Countess Wellington, a kind-hearted woman living in the castle near their village. She also meets Kitty, an arrogant young lady who lives in the large mansion outside their village. Kitty hates Sandybell and constantly visits the Countess in the hope of winning the love and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation
The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International (), widely known as LBCI (), Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation () or LBC () is a private television station in Lebanon. LBCI was founded in 1992 by acquiring the assets, liabilities and logo of LBC, an entity founded in 1985 during the Lebanese Civil War by the Lebanese Forces militia. LBCI went global in 1996 when it launched its satellite channel LBC ''Al-Fadha'iya Al-Lubnaniya'' () covering Lebanon, the Arab world, Europe, America, Australia and Africa. History Post-war era The Lebanese Forces, a Lebanese militia that had founded LBC in 1985, was militarily and financially weakened by the Lebanese civil war which ended in 1990 and its leader Samir Geagea was imprisoned in 1994. In 1992, Pierre El Daher had founded LBCI along with other shareholders and registered it at the Commercial Register of Baabda. In April 1996, El Daher and other shareholders launched LBCsat, a free satellite channel. The new channel was a success, di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Télé Liban
Télé Liban (also known as TL, ) is the first Lebanese public television network, owned by the Lebanese government. It was a result of a merger of the privately run Compagnie Libanaise de Télévision (CLT) (channels 7 and 9) and Télé-Orient (channels 5 and 11). TL is the current Lebanese member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), and the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU). History Compagnie Libanaise de Télévision The Lebanese government granted businessmen Wissam Izzeddine and Alex Moufarrej the first local television license in August 1956, and private Compagnie Libanaise de Télévision (CLT) (in Arabic, شركة التلفزيون اللبنانية). CLT aired programs for the first time on 28 May 1959, making it the first TV station not only in Lebanon but also in the region. The station was officially launched by General Sleiman Nawfal with the aid of France. Color broadcasts started on 21 October 1967, using the French SECAM system, to a total of ten tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roots (1977 Miniseries)
''Roots'' is a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel '' Roots: The Saga of an American Family'', set during and after the era of enslavement in the United States. The series first aired on ABC in January 1977 over eight consecutive nights. A critical and ratings success over the course of its run, ''Roots'' received 37 Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won nine. It also won a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award. It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings for the finale, which holds the record as the third-highest-rated episode for any type of television series, and the second-most-watched overall series finale in American television history. A sequel, '' Roots: The Next Generations'', first aired in 1979, and a second sequel, '' Roots: The Gift'', a Christmas television film, starring LeVar Burton and Louis Gossett Jr., first aired in 1988. A related film, '' Alex Haley's Queen'', is based on the life of Queen Jackson Haley, who was Alex Haley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solid Gold (TV Series)
Solid Gold may refer to: * The property of being made entirely out of gold, rather than merely having a plating of that metal. Art and entertainment Music Bands and labels * Solid Gold (band), American indie electronic band * Solid Gold Cadillac, British jazz-rock group * Solid Gold Chartbusters, collaboration between Guy Pratt and Jimmy Cauty * Solid Gold Records, Canadian record label Albums * Solid Gold (album), ''Solid Gold'' (album), a 1981 album by Gang of Four * ''Solid Gold: 30 Golden Hits'', compilation album by James Brown * ''Solid Gold EP'', a 2016 extended play by Canadian singer Nikki Yanofsky * Chet Atkins's ''Solid Gold'' series ** ''Solid Gold 68'', the thirty-fifth studio album ** ''Solid Gold 69'', the thirty-eighth studio album ** ''Solid Gold 70'', the fortieth studio album * ''Solid Gold Chipmunks'', compilation music album by ''Alvin and the Chipmunks'', released in 1988 * ''Solid Gold Hits'', compilation album by Beastie Boys, released in 2005 Songs * So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Days
''Happy Days'' is an American television sitcom that aired first-run on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC network from January 15, 1974, to July 19, 1984, with a total of 255 half-hour episodes spanning 11 seasons. Created by Garry Marshall, it was one of the most successful series of the 1970s. The series presented life in the 1950s and early 1960s Midwestern United States, and it starred Ron Howard as Richie Cunningham, Henry Winkler as his friend Fonzie, and Tom Bosley and Marion Ross as Richie's parents, Howard Cunningham (Happy Days), Howard and Marion Cunningham (Happy Days), Marion Cunningham. Although it opened to mixed reviews from critics, ''Happy Days'' became successful and popular over time. The series began as an unsold pilot starring Howard, Ross and Anson Williams, which aired in 1972 as a segment titled "Love and the Television Set" (later retitled "Love and the Happy Days" for syndication) on ABC's anthology show ''Love, American Style''. Based on the pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Love Boat
''The Love Boat'' is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Wilford Lloyd Baumes that originally aired on ABC from September 24, 1977, to May 24, 1986. In addition, three TV movies aired before the regular series premiered and four specials and a TV movie aired after the series ended. The series was set on the cruise ship MS ''Pacific Princess'', and revolved around the ship's captain Merrill Stubing (played by Gavin MacLeod) and a handful of his crew, with passengers played by guest actors for each episode, having romantic, dramatic and humorous adventures. The series was part of ABC's popular Saturday-night lineup of the time, which also included '' Fantasy Island'' until 1984. The executive producer for the series was Aaron Spelling, who produced several television series for Four Star Television and ABC from the 1960s into the 1990s. The series was nominated four consecutive times for a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flamingo Road (TV Series)
''Flamingo Road'' is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on NBC. It premiered as a television film on May 12, 1980, and as a series on January 6, 1981, after a rebroadcast of the pilot on December 30, 1980. The show was based on a 1942 Robert Wilder novel of the same name and the 1949 movie scripted by Wilder and starring Joan Crawford. The show was created by Lorimar Productions, who was producing CBS's ''Dallas'' and ''Knots Landing'' at the same time. Set in the present-day fictional town of Truro, Florida, ''Flamingo Road'' centered on the wealthy Weldon family, who made their fortune running the town paper mill. Television film (1980) The show's pilot introduces the Weldon family who reside on the ritzy Flamingo Road in Truro, Florida. Claude Weldon (Kevin McCarthy) is the patriarch, who owns the town's paper mill, who is turning the family business over to his son, Skipper ( Woody Brown). Eudora ( Barbara Rush) is his neglected wife, Constance Weldon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falcon Crest
''Falcon Crest'' is an American prime time television soap opera created by Earl Hamner Jr. that aired for nine seasons on CBS from December 4, 1981, to May 17, 1990. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the California wine industry set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley, located northeast of San Francisco and modeled after the real Napa Valley. Jane Wyman stars as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, opposite Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew, and later David Selby as Richard Channing, the illegitimate son of Angela's ex-husband. Other notable series regulars include Abby Dalton and Margaret Ladd as Angela's daughters Julia and Emma, Lorenzo Lamas as Angela's grandson Lance, Susan Sullivan as Chase's wife Maggie, William R. Moses as their son Cole, and Ana Alicia as heiress Melissa Agretti. Jane Wyman won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her role as Angela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
