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Voix de Tout le Liban 93.3

Voix du Liban (VDL) was the first private radio station in Lebanon. Owned by the Phalange (Kataeb) Party, it attempted to start broadcasting in 1958 but its activity was suspended by its founders after the end of a three-month civil conflict that year. It resumed broadcast in 1975 as the first private, commercial, partisan radio station in the country. In the mid-1990s, the Audiovisual Media Law was put into effect to regulate broadcasting in Lebanon and distribute licenses. Pursuant to this law, the Société Moderne d’Information SAL obtained the license to operate VDL, broadcasting on 93.3 FM, granted by the Council of Ministers. However, the issue of ownership became the subject of a legal dispute between the Phalange Party, the initial owner in 1975, and the Société Moderne d’Information, represented by the heirs of the late Simon Al-Khazen – the former vice-president of the Phalange Party – who have been running the radio station since the 1990s, leading to a split between two radio stations carrying the same name. In 2021, the Lebanese judiciary forbade the Khazen-owned radio station from using its trade name. It changed its name to Voix de tout le Liban (VDTL), after which the judiciary issued a decision in favor of the Phalange Party, confirming its ownership of VDL radio station and trade name.

VDTL broadcasts on the following FM wavelengths: 93.3 in Beirut, 93.5 in northern Lebanon, and 93.1 in southern Lebanon, the Bekaa, Batroun, and Akkar. It has media partnership agreements with a number of major stations, such as Radio Middle East in Canada which relays VDTL news. VDTL also retransmits news and radio programs from Germany’s Arabic Deutsche Welle channel, the Russian Sputnik Arabic radio, and the Lebanese MTV channel. It provides news bulletins, as well as political, economic and social programs, interviews, music, songs, culture and arts. The current CEO is Imad Al-Khazen, the Editor-in-Chief is Taheya Qandil, the finance and administrative director is Petro Milan and the program director is Chadi Maalouf.

Key facts

Ownership Type

Private - Lebanese Joint Stock Company

Geographic Coverage

National

Content Type

Free Content

Active Transparency

company/channel informs proactively and comprehensively about its ownership, data is constantly updated and easily verifiable

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Media Companies / Groups

Société Moderne d'Information SAL

Ownership

Ownership Structure

VDTL 93.3 is owned by Société Moderne d'Information SAL. Its main shareholders are three brothers, Imad, Ziad and Tarek Al-Khazen, sons of late Simon Al-Khazen, who was the vice-president of the Phalange Party. Other investors own shares in Société Moderne d'Information SAL. The Al-Khazen family's shares are distributed as follows: Imad Al-Khazen and Hiba Al-Khazen (9.75%), Ziad Al-Khazen and Hiba Al-Khazen (7.5%), Tarek Al-Khazen and Hiba Al-Khazen (8.875%).

Voting Rights

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Individual Owner

Group / Individual Owner

Mounir Akiki

9.1%
Media Companies / Groups
Facts

General Information

Founding Year

1958

Affiliated Interests Founder

The Phalange Party

a Christian political party in Lebanon. Founders include Simon Al-Khazen, Mounir Hajj, Ibrahim Richa, Jalal Bitar, Habib Lahoud, George Saadeh, Toni Tajer, Michel Mouawad, Fadi Habr, Bishop André Haddad, Melhem Karam, and Antoine Habr.

Affiliated Interests Ceo

Imad Al-Khazen

son of Simon Al-Khazen, former Phalange Party vice-president

Affiliated Interests Editor-In-Chief

Taheya Qandil

Editor-in-Chief

Affiliated Interests other important people

Petro Milan

Administrative Director

Contact

Phone: + 961 (4) 545 352

Email: news@vdl.com.lb

Website: www.vdlnews.com

Address: Zouk El Khrab, Dbayeh

P.O. Box 19-170 Dbayeh

Financial Information

Revenue (in Mill. $)

1,100,000,000 L.L (2021)

Operating Profit (in Mill. $)

-200,000,000 L.L (2021)

Advertising (in % of total funding)

515,000,000 L.L (49%)

Market Share

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Further Information

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