Television and Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation Future Television brands Future TV Terrestrial: A localized channel dedicated to the whole Lebanese family, it was broadcast in Digital television format from Doha since 2003. Future TV International: The channel is dedicated to Lebanese citizens in the Arab World & Europe. Future TV America & Australia: The channel is dedicated to Lebanese citizens in the Americas and Australia. Defunct brands Zein TV: This channel had programs aimed at a younger adult audience, with discussions and content relevant to Arab youth. Reasons for shutting down this channel remain unclear. Future News: This channel used to air news and political programs. The channel shut down on 20 August 2012 because the channel changed into a brand new version it was merged with the main future. Popular programs Future TV has produced many popular programs including SuperStar (Arabic version of Pop Idol), La Youmal لا يمل (a comedy/skit show), Miss Elite Top Model, El Halka Al-Ad'af (Arabic version of The Weakest Link), El Fakh (Arabic version of Cash Trapped), and Alakhbar (The News) which was usually broadcast daily at different times in Arabic, English, French, and even Armenian. Its most famous talk show was Sireh wo infatahit سيرة وأنفتحت (Arabic for Open for Discussion) hosted by Zaven Kouyoumdjian. The show, which discussed various social and political issues, was thought to be the highest rating talk show in the Arab World. Future TV's longest running show was Khaleek bill bait خليك بالبيت (Arabic for Stay at Home) hosted by Zahi Wehbe. The show interviewed artists and intellectuals from the Arab World. The show used to be co-hosted by Shahnaz Abdallah. A show called "Transit" presented by talented anchor Najat Sharafeddine airing Sunday nights on Future Television was competing with a lot of other "Media Talk shows" aired on Lebanese and Middle Eastern TV corporations. Logos Future TV personalities Past Shahnaz Abdallah Najwa Qassem Joumana Nammour Rima Maktabi Present Chef Chadi Zeitouni Mahmoud Sammoura Sahar El Khatib Mounir Hafi Zaven Kouyoumdjian Zahi Wehbe Salman Sarriyiddine Lina Doughan Najat Sharafeddin Youmna Tayyara Ali Hamade Maya Zankoul Nadim Koteich Maria Fahel Tal3at Feek Affiliated Media Al-Mustaqbal newspaper, also owned by the Hariri family, closed its print operations in January for similar reasons, thus threatening the survival of Hariri's Future Movement as a political project while Hezbollah's media empire remained very active despite the militant group's own financial woes. References External links