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:
“All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)
“Photographs may be more memorable than moving images because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Television is a stream of underselected images, each of which cancels its predecessor. Each still photograph is a privileged moment, turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)