Government broadcaster Radio Lebanon now stream their first programme audio from a new website at www.radioliban.gov.lb. Programming is in Arabic and the website itself nominally also in English, however the English element is presumably still a "work in progress" as it seems somewhat limited. The site's programme schedule seems inaccurate and incomplete, e.g. sign-on time is given as 08:00 local time daily [currently 05:00 UT] yet it was observed already in progress and commencing a major news bulletin when I "tuned in" at 04:30 UT today. The stream had been silent when I checked at 23:15 UT last night so the service doesn't appear to be a 24/7 operation.
Radio Lebanon's second programme, which broadcasts on 96.2 MHz in French, Armenian and English, is a joint enterprise with Radio France Internationale and has had live audio streaming from its own website at www.96-2.com since at least 2006. The website and stream currently seem unreachable however, although their Facebook and Twitter pages still cite that URL.
How many of the older folk amongst you remember the "glory days" of Radio Lebanon's multilingual foreign service on shortwave? It was last listed in the WRTH 1984 edition, stated to be broadcasting from a single transmitter on either 11955 or 15355 kHz in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.
David Kernick, Interval Signals Online (via dxld yg)
