Television
Libyan Radio and TV (LRT) is the successor to the Gaddafi-era state broadcaster. More than 20 TV stations, many privately-owned, broadcast from Libyan cities and from Middle East media hubs.
- Television receivers
- 889,232 receivers, 149 per 1000 inhabitants (2005)
- Television broadcast stations
- Libya TV - aka Libya al-Ahrar; Qatar-based satellite station, launched in April 2011. Homepage
- Libya al-hurra TV
- Libya Al-Wataniya TV - state-run
- Libya Radio and Television (LRT) - state-run
- Al-Asimah TV - private
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy.... In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“So by all means let’s have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn’t it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
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—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)