Télé Liban

Télé Liban is a state owned public broadcast television station in Lebanon.

Télé Liban is a Francophone and Arabic broadcaster, providing news and shows in both French and Arabic.

Télé Liban began broadcasting on May 28^th 1959 and was the first Television station in the Middle East when it was launched.

Télé Liban is French for Tele Lebanon, simple isn't it.

Lebanon has close ties with France after it was placed under French administration after World War I, and many speak French.
Because of this Lebanon uses the SECAM * standard for their colour broadcasts over the air and Télé Liban broadcasts an Arabic service VHF Channel 5 at 50kW's of power in Lebanon's capital Beirut and has a network of transmitters across the country

Télé Liban broadcasts a French language service on VHF channel 9, but I can not confirm this.

On satellite Télé Liban broadcasts a dual language service, broadcasting in a mixture of Arabic and French.

Télé Liban on satellite closes at around 00:00 each morning and plays this video.

The Video

First of we see a really awesome ident, with a very American feel to the musical score used with it, you would think there was a sporting event coming up or even a news broadcast on a major US Television network.

The rest of the video is kinda obvious, with the Flag of Lebanon and National Anthem playing.

Cheers and enjoy....

* Wikipedia's information mentions Lebanon broadcasts in the PAL standard, but various sources are conflicting, so I will settle with SECAM due to being extremely likely.