LEBANON NEW WEBSITE FOR ARMENIAN RADIO STATION

BBC Monitoring Research, UK
Nov 22 2006

BBC Monitoring observes Lebanese Armenian radio station Voice of Van
on a new website at The site is texted in English
and Armenian, and offers an extensive archive of on-demand audio files
of most of their programmes, posted online soon after live broadcast.

The station broadcasts round the clock with programmes in Armenian and
Arabic on 94.7 MHz FM from studios in Beirut. Main news bulletins in
Armenian are at 0830 and 1830 local time, in Arabic at 0930 and 1630
local time (currently gmt +2 hours).

Founded in 1986, Voice of Van describes itself on the website as "the
official radio station of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation in
Lebanon" (Dashnaktsutyun). The mother organization of this political
party has a website at

Two other Beirut radio stations have recently established a web
presence.

Voice of the People has an Arabic website at ,
offering an on-demand audio archive of their main news bulletin for the
last seven days. The station broadcasts in Arabic on 103.7 and 104.0
MHz in the FM band, between the hours of 0600-0100 hours local time.

The second programme of state-owned Radio Lebanon has a
website at Radio Liban 96.2 FM broadcasts on
that frequency round the clock in French, English and Armenian,
including several hours relaying French programming from external
broadcaster Radio France International. An associated website at
has further information and
a programme guide.