Background: The aim of this paper was to investigate the relationship between the content
use of the satellite programs and their role in the national identity formation of Hamadan
youth. In this regard, the relationship between the national and international satellite
channels with various aspects of national identity and seven social, historical, geographical,
political, cultural, a religious and linguistic dimension was studied. This was a survey study
which used Likert questionnaire to measure the main variable (the use of satellites) and
depended research variable (national identity). In order to measure the reliability and
validity of range the face validity of Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used. The sample size
was 400 and the multi-stage cluster sampling method has been used. Overall findings
indicated that young people in Hamadan spend part of their time for the content use of
satellite and television networks which has made some changes in their beliefs and
attitudes regarding their national identity. In the regression analysis it was revealed that
the content of the Persian-language satellite programs has positive has the most positive
impact on national identity because of giving information and news and the variable of
content use of Persian-language satellite programs because of its recreation activities has
the greatest negative impact on the national identity.