Beirut  - Future Television, which is owned by Lebanese majority leader Saad Hariri, is to resume broadcasting Tuesday afternoon after opposition followers forced the facility to close last week.

"We will return to our normal broadcast at 16:30 (1330 GMT)," Nadim Munla told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Future TV was established in the 1990s by former prime minister Rafik Hariri, Saad's father, who was assassinated in 2005 in a car- bomb blast in Beirut.

Future TV went off the air Friday after the Shiite Muslim guerrilla group Hezbollah and its allies routed their pro-government Sunni opponents from most of west Beirut.

The offices of another Hariri operation, al-Mustaqbal newspaper, were attacked on Friday and parts of the building set on fire.

Pro-Syrian gunmen also set fire to a building where Future TV has its archives.

Iranian-backed Hezbollah and its allies seized large swaths of Muslim west Beirut on Friday, demonstrating their military might in a power struggle with the US-backed government.

It was the worst sectarian violence since Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war.

The clashes broke out after the government challenged Hezbollah by declaring its private telephone network illegal and saying it would remove the chief of airport security for suspected ties to the militant group.

Sources close to Hariri said the head of the majority would give a press conference at 1400 GMT. (dpa)