Voix du Liban

In 2010, the Phalange Party bought – through a company called Société Nouvelle d’Information Audiovisuelle SAL – the rights to the 100.3 and 100.5 FM radio frequencies, previously owned by Noujoum Lubnan (Stars of Lebanon), a Category 2 (i.e. non-political) station. Upon buying them, the Party declared that it would relaunch VDL on these two new frequencies. On December 1, 2010, two different radio stations carrying the same name were being broadcast. In 2017, the Lebanese Court of Cassation ruled that the Voix du Liban logo, with the acronym VDL, is a distinctive name worthy of protection and that its rights were to be granted solely to the Phalange Party-owned 100.3-100.5 frequencies, banning the station broadcasting on 93.3 FM from using this name. Three months later, however, the Court issued a second ruling suspending the first ruling and thus reopening the case file. In 2021, the Lebanese judiciary forbade VDL 93.3 FM from using its trademark. This followed a legal dispute that went on for years, after which the judiciary issued a decision in favor of the Phalange Party, confirming its ownership of VDL radio station. The ruling banned Société Moderne d’Information SAL, which runs the 93.3 FM frequency, from using the phrase “Voice of Lebanon” and “Voix du Liban”, in addition to the trademarks VDL, Radio Voice of Lebanon and VDL News. VDL broadcasts 20 hours a day and geographical coverage extends over Lebanese territories and neighboring countries. The radio content is diverse, from news bulletins (including the 8.00 pm LBCI news bulletin) and political, social, and economic, to medical awareness-raising, cultural, artistic, entertainment, and sports programs, among others. It is currently run by Assaad Maroun and the Editor in Chief is Charbel Maroun.