Studio El Fan

Studio El Fan (Arabic: ستوديو الفن, "The Art Studio") is a Lebanese star-maker talent shows in Lebanon, created by the television director and producer Simon Asmar with Alfred Barakat.^[1] The program has helped launch the careers of many Lebanese stars^[2][3] including Majida El Roumi, Ragheb Alama, Walid Toufic, Wael Kfoury and Assi El Hellani.^[4] The program started in 1972^[1] on Télé Liban where it was broadcast during the 1970s and early 1980s. The LBC television proposed to take over the show in the early 1980s.^[1] It aired on LBC during the late 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, until it was bought by the MTV in 2009.^{[citation needed]}