MTV will resume broadcasting in Lebanon, after seven years of hiatus.

The music channel MTV will resume broadcasting on the territory of Lebanon's March 31, 2009, said Naharnet. Broadcast MTV Lebanon was discontinued in 2002 after the Lebanese authorities have accused the channel in a demonstration of campaign commercials in the pre-election rules prohibited the time. In September 2002, the court decided to close the channel.
At a conference in Beirut, the chairman of the board of directors of Gabriel Murr (Gabriel Murr), said that MTV is now in Lebanon will be financed from its own sources. "MTV will not support any political party in Lebanon" - said Murr added that the resumption of broadcasting has nothing to do with the elections in the country.
Work on the canal invited prominent Lebanese journalists.