The FM Radio Station Market Booms in the Arab World as Private Companies in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq Take Over the Airwaves

The FM Radio Station Market Booms in the Arab World as Private Companies in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq Take Over the Airwaves

DUBLIN, Ireland, October 28/PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c25377 )
has announced the addition of FM Radio in the Arab World 2005 to their
offering.

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Not unlike the Sat TV boom, the Arab World is undergoing an FM radio
station boom. The FM radio industry, which is local and not pan-Arab by
definition, still has some regionally focused operators. The landscape is
made up of local FM stations for the most part and the numbers are projected
to sky rocket as more countries allow private FM radio operations in the
coming few years. UAE and Algeria have the most crowded state-owned FM radio
environment in the region. The UAE leads with 19 radio stations operating
under five networks. Algeria follows UAE with 17 radio stations operating
under the states Radio-Television Algerienne (RTA) network. On the privately
owned stations, Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq lead the region with 23, 17 and
10 operational private FM radio stations respectively.

"FM Radio in the Arab World 2005" was released on September 25, 2005. The
59-pages report, which has 32 detailed exhibits, provides a detailed analysis
of the FM Radio regulations and landscape in the 18 Arab countries of
Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman,
Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen. The
report includes analysis and profiles of every FM radio (private and
government owned) in the region.

"Radio listening is popular and widespread in the Arab World. surveys in
Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia reveal that a majority of people listen to
radio stations." Ms. Lina Juma, research analyst wrote in the report.

Egypt and Tunisia were of the first countries in the Middle East to allow
private radio stations under a legal framework. Egypt launched Nile FM and
Negoom FM in July 2003 then followed by Tunisia's Mosaique FM in November.
Furthermore, Jordan's broadcasting media experienced partial liberalization
in mid 2003 after the establishment of the audiovisual media law. Finally,
the Ministry of information in Kuwait issued a legislation granting licenses
to private radio and Television stations in the same year.

Consistent with the liberalization trend, in year 2004 Oman was next in
line to offer licenses to private TV and radio stations. Up to date, Syria
was the last country to pursue liberalization. Furthermore, Saudi Arabia is
presently planning to privatize some public radio stations.

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Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
press@researchandmarkets.com
Fax: +353-1-4100-980

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Source: Research and Markets

Laura Wood, Senior Manager, Research and Markets, press@researchandmarkets.com, Fax: +353-1-4100-980

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