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List of radio stations in Egypt

March 14, 2023

Radio broadcasting in Egypt began in the 20th century, in 1924 as privately owned and operated community stations. Later, in 1934 private ownership and operation were abolished and radio broadcasting was nationalized ever since.

By the early 1990s, Egypt had only 4 FM stations in Greater Cairo (2 in Alexandria), but the number increased to 6 in Greater Cairo (4 in Alexandria) by the end of the decade. The increase in the number was merely a rebroadcast of the already AM radio stations. In 2000, AM stations (on the medium wave band) started a phase of simulcasting to FM band, as of 2013, only one or two stations broadcast on AM without FM simulcasts.

All the local radio stations have always been publicly owned, however, state-controlled which make them in practice, stated owned, with the exception of the apolitical private radio station at El Gouna resort, named El Gouna Radio ("Lagoon Radio"). All broadcast media are somehow state controlled, even if partly or fully private.

As of 2002, there were only 8 radio stations broadcast on FM to Greater Cairo (6 in Alexandria), none of them was specialized in popular songs. On March 23, 2002, Voice of America (VOA) had changed its shortwave Arabic service to an appealing station for the youth, named Radio Sawa ("Radio Together"), started broadcasting on a more easily receivable MW signal from Cyprus.[1] For the first time, the state allowed Good News to start a joint venture with the state-controlled ERTU, which started a test broadcasting for two popular song stations to Greater Cairo, as of June 2002. The two were Nogoum FM ("Stars FM"; for popular mainly Egyptian songs) and Nile FM (for popular mainly American songs).

Local stations

All local radio stations in Egypt are also simulcasted on the series of the satellites (partly private but state controlled), Nilesat at 7 degrees west, except El Gouna Radio.

Local stations are typically broadcast on FM. Very few radio stations use the Radio Data System to broadcast the station name, but receiving the RDS is very rare in FM receivers in Egypt. Very few available mobile phones in Egypt which have an FM receiver, receive the RDS information. 90.9 MHz is the only station to broadcast the current song or show title, but when the title is long, it is partly displayed. All of the radio stations are state-controlled, unless otherwise noted.

Greater Cairo

Greater Cairo region has the most number of FM stations in Egypt. The broadcasting antenna of FM and terrestrial TV is in Mokattam hills, as they are the most elevated location within Greater Cairo, to make the transmission reaches the widest area possible, however, the signals are weakly received farther than 40 kilometers, which makes transmission weak to the most eastern part of New Cairo, the eastern half of Shorouk City, two-thirds of western 6 October City, all of Madinaty, Badr and New Heliopolis.

A few of the following stations are broadcast on other frequencies in other regions in Egypt.

All stations which broadcast popular songs are mainly Egyptian songs with very few Levantine hits (mostly Lebanese) or other north African.

  1. 87.8 MHz Mix (since 2019)
  2. 88.2 MHz Radio Hits (stereo) – popular songs with occasional foreign songs (mostly American popular hits). (similar to Radio Masr but with more songs) (since mid 2010)
  3. 88.7 MHz Radio Masr (stereo; RDS) - popular songs and news briefs. (popular songs & news; similar format to Radio Sawa ) (since mid 2010; as test transmission since 2009)
  4. 89.5 MHz Middle East Radio (stereo) – spoken content and songs.
  5. 90.9 MHz El Radio FM 90 9 (stereo; RDS) – popular songs. (since April 2012)
  6. 91.5 MHz Cultural Program (mono) – spoken content, rarely classical music, some affiliate foreign stations programs.
  7. 92.1 MHz NRJ Egypt (stereo) (since 2017)
  8. 92.7 MHz Mega FM (stereo)
  9. 93.7 MHz On sport FM (since 2019)
  10. 95 MHz Shaabi FM (stereo) – traditional and old Egyptian songs.
  11. 95.4 MHz European Program (El-Bernamag el-Orobbi) (mono and stereo interchangeably) (English, French, Greek, Italian, German) – spoken content with western hits.
  12. 98.2 MHz Al-Qur'aan Al-Kareem Radio (mono) (All Arab League members have a Quran station)
  13. 98.8 MHz Musical Program (Al-Moseeka Radio) (stereo) – classical international music, folk and old Egyptian songs, soft music and foreign songs (mostly American popular hits).
  14. 100.6 MHz Nogoum FM (stereo; RDS) – popular songs. (joint venture with ERTU)
  15. 102.2 MHz Greater Cairo Radio (Al-Qahera Al-Kobra Radio) (stereo) – spoken content.
  16. 104.2 MHz Nile FM (stereo; RDS) – Full-time English-speaking. Syndicated American and British shows as well as local talk shows in English. (joint venture with ERTU)
  17. 105.3 MHz Nagham FM ("Tunes FM") (stereo) – popular songs (since 2012)
  18. 105.8 MHz Specialty Songs (Aghany Motakhasesa) (stereo) – mainly old Egyptian songs.
  19. 106.3 MHz Voice of the Arabs (Sawt el Arab) (mono) – spoken content.
  20. 107.4 MHz Egyptian Radio - General Program (El-Bernameg El-'Aam) (mono) – spoken content
  21. 108 MHz on sport aka as Goal FM (Al-Shabab Wal Riyadah Radio) (mono) – sports news, live matches and songs.

North coast

Foreign radio stations can be received in summer, mainly: Cypriot, Greek, Italian and Israeli radio stations, but reception is unreliable and fades quickly.

Alexandria

As of 2007, there were 6 radio stations.

  1. 88 MHz Musical Program (stereo)
  2. 88.2 MHz Radio Hits (stereo) (since 2010)
  3. 88.7 FM Radio Orient (إذاعة الشرق) (The only fully foreign broadcast on the local FM)
  4. 90.1 MHz Koran Station (mono)
  5. 92.7 MHz Mega FM (stereo; RDS) (since 2010)
  6. 94.3 MHz European Program (stereo)
  7. 95.5 MHz Shaabi FM (stereo)
  8. 97.6 MHz Specialty Songs (stereo)
  9. 101.1 MHz Radio Alexandria (mono)
  10. 104.7 MHz General Program (mono)

There used to be local radio stations which were aired in the languages, Armenian, Italian, French, Greek and English in the 1940s.

Marina area

Since 2009, the government sometimes occasionally broadcasts some radio stations which are only broadcast to Greater Cairo, on the same frequencies used in Greater Cairo. On occasions such as the official vacations in Egypt. The broadcasts can be received by nearby local touristic villages to Marina and very weakly in Alexandria, likewise the radio stations broadcast to Alexandria are received very weakly in and around Marina.

  • 88.7 MHz Radio Masr (stereo; RDS) (since 2010)
  • 90.9 MHz El Radio FM 90 9 (stereo; RDS) (since February 2012)
  • 100.6 MHz Nogoum FM (stereo; RDS)
  • 104.2 MHz Nile FM (stereo; RDS)
  • 105.3 MHz Nagham FM (stereo) (since 2012)

Red Sea

El Gouna

  • 88.6 MHz Radio Misr
  • 91.7 MHz El Quran El Karim
  • 98.2 MHz El Aghany
  • 100 MHz El Gouna Radio ("Lagoon Radio") (stereo) (Italian and English) (privately owned by Orascom)
  • 101.7 MHz Al Shabab Wel Riada
  • 105.3 MHz El Barnamag El Aam

Soma Bay

  • Robinson FM - at Robinson hotel[2]

Sharm El Sheikh

Most if not all of them are already broadcast in Greater Cairo, except South Sinai.

  1. 88 MHz ? (mono) – spoken content.
  2. 89.4 MHz General (mono)
  3. 91.1 MHz Musical (stereo)
  4. 92.5 MHz ? (mono) – spoken content.
  5. 94.3 MHz ?
  6. 95.7 MHz ? (mono) – spoken content.
  7. 97.6 MHz ?
  8. 99 MHz South Sinai (mono) – spoken content.

Dahab

  1. 92 MHz Koran (mono)
  2. 98.5 MHz ? (mono) – spoken content.
  3. 103.7 MHz ? (mono) – spoken content.
  4. 107.3 MHz European Program (stereo)

Central Egypt

  1. 89.8 MHz koran station covered Fayoum and Bani Sweif
  2. 101.4 MHz northern upper station covered Bani Sweif and Fayoum
  3. 94.2 MHz northern upper station covered Minya

Internet stations

After the slow adoption of broadband internet, in the mid-2000s, a number of internet stations streamed on the internet, and a few of them stream on a regular basis.

Examples

  • TIBA Radio (private; Adult Contemporary and Classic Hits; based in Hurghada)[3]
  • Radio Horytna ("Our Freedom Radio"; private; popular songs, talk shows; based in Cairo; evolved into a podcast)[4]
  • Tram Radio (private; underground music; based in Alexandria; now off)[5]
  • Radio Banha (public; popular Egyptian songs; based in Banha)[6]
  • Hawak Radio (راديو هواك) since 2013 on Tunein;[7] based in Cairo[8][9]
  • RADIO 5:14 (راديو 5:14) internet Christian radio since 2016 on website radio514.blogspot.com based in Suez, Egypt[10]

International stations

As of the 1952 coup d'état, no foreign station is allowed to broadcast on Egyptian-controlled land with a 2018 exception in Alexandria (Radio Orient), therefore international broadcasters broadcast from lands close to Egypt, mostly close to the north of Egypt, from Cyprus. Many state controlled radio stations used to broadcast primarily on the medium wave using amplitude modulation broadcasting, but after the adoption of FM broadcasting in Egypt, most of them now are simulcasted on the medium wave and the FM band since the early 2000s. The state controlled radios aren't listed below.

AM radio broadcasting in Egypt had always been mono and other developments were never introduced. The long wave band had never been used.

Historical

International medium wave broadcasting was gradually replaced from 2019 by internet services, e.g online streaming or podcasts, or ceased entirely.

Medium wave

  • 639 kHz BBC Arabic and BBC World Service (British radio service)[11] – in Literary Arabic. (the broadcasting antenna is in Cape Greco, Cyprus)
  • 1233 kHz Monte Carlo International (French radio service)[12] – in Literary Arabic. (the broadcasting antenna is at Cape Greco. It's very hard to receive the signal away from northernmost Egypt)
  • 990 kHz[13] (till 2019) Radio Sawa (American radio service) – news, informational content and popular songs; most spoken content in Literary Arabic. (since March 23, 2002;[1] the broadcasting antenna is in Cape Greco. During the day, the farther from the north, the harder it is to receive the signal; at first it simulcasted on 981 and 1260 kHz, in 2005 it changed the first frequency to 990 kHz, then it abolished the second one in 2008)

Short wave

In the 1960s, at time of Nasser rule, short wave broadcasting was important for the state. It used to broadcast stations to the Middle East which were of propagandist importance to the Egyptian regime and for propagating for Arab nationalism.

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b Radio Sawa: about
  2. ^ "Standorte - Goethe-Institut".
  3. ^ "TIBA Radio - The music of our lives". www.tibaradio.com.
  4. ^ "راديو حريتنا - Radio Horytna". www.horytna.net.
  5. ^ Tram Radio
  6. ^ "راديو بنها سيتى - المنوع".
  7. ^ "راديو هواك-اجدد الاغاني والبرامج". www.hawakradio.com.
  8. ^ "Facebook - log in or sign up". Facebook.
  9. ^ "راديو هواك-Hawak Radio on Facebook". Facebook. Archived from the original on April 30, 2022.[user-generated source]
  10. ^ "RADIO 5:14". www.facebook.com.
  11. ^ "Short and Medium Waves". BBC Arabic. January 20, 2011. Retrieved October 26, 2016. (in Arabic)
  12. ^ "Listening Frequencies". Monte Carlo International. Retrieved October 5, 2018. (in Arabic)
  13. ^ "Frequencies of Broadcasting". Radio Sawa. Retrieved October 26, 2016. (in Arabic)

External links

  • Account Suspended Egypt Radio Stations Live
  • for more information about the Egyptian Radio industry.
  • FM Radio Online database of FM stations (select country "EGY" after logging in or continuing as guest)
  • FMSCAN reception prediction of FM, TV, MW, SW stations (also use the expert options for better results)

March 14, 2023
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources List of radio stations in Egypt news newspapers books scholar JSTOR July 2018 Learn how and when to remove this template message Radio broadcasting in Egypt began in the 20th century in 1924 as privately owned and operated community stations Later in 1934 private ownership and operation were abolished and radio broadcasting was nationalized ever since By the early 1990s Egypt had only 4 FM stations in Greater Cairo 2 in Alexandria but the number increased to 6 in Greater Cairo 4 in Alexandria by the end of the decade The increase in the number was merely a rebroadcast of the already AM radio stations In 2000 AM stations on the medium wave band started a phase of simulcasting to FM band as of 2013 only one or two stations broadcast on AM without FM simulcasts All the local radio stations have always been publicly owned however state controlled which make them in practice stated owned with the exception of the apolitical private radio station at El Gouna resort named El Gouna Radio Lagoon Radio All broadcast media are somehow state controlled even if partly or fully private As of 2002 there were only 8 radio stations broadcast on FM to Greater Cairo 6 in Alexandria none of them was specialized in popular songs On March 23 2002 Voice of America VOA had changed its shortwave Arabic service to an appealing station for the youth named Radio Sawa Radio Together started broadcasting on a more easily receivable MW signal from Cyprus 1 For the first time the state allowed Good News to start a joint venture with the state controlled ERTU which started a test broadcasting for two popular song stations to Greater Cairo as of June 2002 The two were Nogoum FM Stars FM for popular mainly Egyptian songs and Nile FM for popular mainly American songs Contents 1 Local stations 1 1 Greater Cairo 1 2 North coast 1 2 1 Alexandria 1 2 2 Marina area 1 3 Red Sea 1 3 1 El Gouna 1 3 2 Soma Bay 1 3 3 Sharm El Sheikh 1 3 4 Dahab 1 4 Central Egypt 2 Internet stations 2 1 Examples 3 International stations 3 1 Historical 3 1 1 Medium wave 3 2 Short wave 4 See also 5 Notes and references 6 External linksLocal stations EditThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items February 2013 All local radio stations in Egypt are also simulcasted on the series of the satellites partly private but state controlled Nilesat at 7 degrees west except El Gouna Radio Local stations are typically broadcast on FM Very few radio stations use the Radio Data System to broadcast the station name but receiving the RDS is very rare in FM receivers in Egypt Very few available mobile phones in Egypt which have an FM receiver receive the RDS information 90 9 MHz is the only station to broadcast the current song or show title but when the title is long it is partly displayed All of the radio stations are state controlled unless otherwise noted Greater Cairo Edit Greater Cairo region has the most number of FM stations in Egypt The broadcasting antenna of FM and terrestrial TV is in Mokattam hills as they are the most elevated location within Greater Cairo to make the transmission reaches the widest area possible however the signals are weakly received farther than 40 kilometers which makes transmission weak to the most eastern part of New Cairo the eastern half of Shorouk City two thirds of western 6 October City all of Madinaty Badr and New Heliopolis A few of the following stations are broadcast on other frequencies in other regions in Egypt All stations which broadcast popular songs are mainly Egyptian songs with very few Levantine hits mostly Lebanese or other north African 87 8 MHz Mix since 2019 88 2 MHz Radio Hits stereo popular songs with occasional foreign songs mostly American popular hits similar toRadio Masrbut with more songs since mid 2010 88 7 MHz Radio Masr stereo RDS popular songs and news briefs popular songs amp news similar format toRadio Sawa since mid 2010 as test transmission since 2009 89 5 MHz Middle East Radio stereo spoken content and songs 90 9 MHz El Radio FM 90 9 stereo RDS popular songs since April 2012 91 5 MHz Cultural Program mono spoken content rarely classical music some affiliate foreign stations programs 92 1 MHz NRJ Egypt stereo since 2017 92 7 MHz Mega FM stereo 93 7 MHz On sport FM since 2019 95 MHz Shaabi FM stereo traditional and old Egyptian songs 95 4 MHz European Program El Bernamag el Orobbi mono and stereo interchangeably English French Greek Italian German spoken content with western hits 98 2 MHz Al Qur aan Al Kareem Radio mono All Arab League members have a Quran station 98 8 MHz Musical Program Al Moseeka Radio stereo classical international music folk and old Egyptian songs soft music and foreign songs mostly American popular hits 100 6 MHz Nogoum FM stereo RDS popular songs joint venture with ERTU 102 2 MHz Greater Cairo Radio Al Qahera Al Kobra Radio stereo spoken content 104 2 MHz Nile FM stereo RDS Full time English speaking Syndicated American and British shows as well as local talk shows in English joint venture with ERTU 105 3 MHz Nagham FM Tunes FM stereo popular songs since 2012 105 8 MHz Specialty Songs Aghany Motakhasesa stereo mainly old Egyptian songs 106 3 MHz Voice of the Arabs Sawt el Arab mono spoken content 107 4 MHz Egyptian Radio General Program El Bernameg El Aam mono spoken content 108 MHz on sport aka as Goal FM Al Shabab Wal Riyadah Radio mono sports news live matches and songs North coast Edit Foreign radio stations can be received in summer mainly Cypriot Greek Italian and Israeli radio stations but reception is unreliable and fades quickly Alexandria Edit As of 2007 there were 6 radio stations 88 MHz Musical Program stereo 88 2 MHz Radio Hits stereo since 2010 88 7 FM Radio Orient إذاعة الشرق The only fully foreign broadcast on the local FM 90 1 MHz Koran Station mono 92 7 MHz Mega FM stereo RDS since 2010 94 3 MHz European Program stereo 95 5 MHz Shaabi FM stereo 97 6 MHz Specialty Songs stereo 101 1 MHz Radio Alexandria mono 104 7 MHz General Program mono There used to be local radio stations which were aired in the languages Armenian Italian French Greek and English in the 1940s Marina area Edit Since 2009 the government sometimes occasionally broadcasts some radio stations which are only broadcast to Greater Cairo on the same frequencies used in Greater Cairo On occasions such as the official vacations in Egypt The broadcasts can be received by nearby local touristic villages to Marina and very weakly in Alexandria likewise the radio stations broadcast to Alexandria are received very weakly in and around Marina 88 7 MHz Radio Masr stereo RDS since 2010 90 9 MHz El Radio FM 90 9 stereo RDS since February 2012 100 6 MHz Nogoum FM stereo RDS 104 2 MHz Nile FM stereo RDS 105 3 MHz Nagham FM stereo since 2012 Red Sea Edit El Gouna Edit This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items February 2013 88 6 MHz Radio Misr 91 7 MHz El Quran El Karim 98 2 MHz El Aghany 100 MHz El Gouna Radio Lagoon Radio stereo Italian and English privately owned by Orascom 101 7 MHz Al Shabab Wel Riada 105 3 MHz El Barnamag El AamSoma Bay Edit Robinson FM at Robinson hotel 2 Sharm El Sheikh Edit Most if not all of them are already broadcast in Greater Cairo except South Sinai 88 MHz mono spoken content 89 4 MHz General mono 91 1 MHz Musical stereo 92 5 MHz mono spoken content 94 3 MHz 95 7 MHz mono spoken content 97 6 MHz 99 MHz South Sinai mono spoken content Dahab Edit 92 MHz Koran mono 98 5 MHz mono spoken content 103 7 MHz mono spoken content 107 3 MHz European Program stereo Central Egypt Edit 89 8 MHz koran station covered Fayoum and Bani Sweif 101 4 MHz northern upper station covered Bani Sweif and Fayoum 94 2 MHz northern upper station covered MinyaInternet stations EditAfter the slow adoption of broadband internet in the mid 2000s a number of internet stations streamed on the internet and a few of them stream on a regular basis Examples Edit TIBA Radio private Adult Contemporary and Classic Hits based in Hurghada 3 Radio Horytna Our Freedom Radio private popular songs talk shows based in Cairo evolved into a podcast 4 Tram Radio private underground music based in Alexandria now off 5 Radio Banha public popular Egyptian songs based in Banha 6 Hawak Radio راديو هواك since 2013 on Tunein 7 based in Cairo 8 9 RADIO 5 14 راديو 5 14 internet Christian radio since 2016 on website radio514 blogspot com based in Suez Egypt 10 International stations EditAs of the 1952 coup d etat no foreign station is allowed to broadcast on Egyptian controlled land with a 2018 exception in Alexandria Radio Orient therefore international broadcasters broadcast from lands close to Egypt mostly close to the north of Egypt from Cyprus Many state controlled radio stations used to broadcast primarily on the medium wave using amplitude modulation broadcasting but after the adoption of FM broadcasting in Egypt most of them now are simulcasted on the medium wave and the FM band since the early 2000s The state controlled radios aren t listed below AM radio broadcasting in Egypt had always been mono and other developments were never introduced The long wave band had never been used Historical Edit International medium wave broadcasting was gradually replaced from 2019 by internet services e g online streaming or podcasts or ceased entirely Medium wave Edit 639 kHz BBC Arabic and BBC World Service British radio service 11 in Literary Arabic the broadcasting antenna is in Cape Greco Cyprus 1233 kHz Monte Carlo International French radio service 12 in Literary Arabic the broadcasting antenna is at Cape Greco It s very hard to receive the signal away from northernmost Egypt 990 kHz 13 till 2019 Radio Sawa American radio service news informational content and popular songs most spoken content in Literary Arabic since March 23 2002 1 the broadcasting antenna is in Cape Greco During the day the farther from the north the harder it is to receive the signal at first it simulcasted on 981 and 1260 kHz in 2005 it changed the first frequency to 990 kHz then it abolished the second one in 2008 Short wave Edit In the 1960s at time of Nasser rule short wave broadcasting was important for the state It used to broadcast stations to the Middle East which were of propagandist importance to the Egyptian regime and for propagating for Arab nationalism See also EditMedia of Egypt List of newspapers in Egypt List of magazines in Egypt Television in Egypt Telecommunications in Egypt List of radio stations in Africa Radio in other continents Lists of radio stations in Asia Lists of radio stations in Europe Lists of radio stations in North America Lists of radio stations in South America Lists of radio stations in the South Pacific and OceaniaNotes and references Edit a b Radio Sawa about Standorte Goethe Institut TIBA Radio The music of our lives www tibaradio com راديو حريتنا Radio Horytna www horytna net Tram Radio راديو بنها سيتى المنوع راديو هواك اجدد الاغاني والبرامج www hawakradio com Facebook log in or sign up Facebook راديو هواك Hawak Radio on Facebook Facebook Archived from the original on April 30 2022 user generated source RADIO 5 14 www facebook com Short and Medium Waves BBC Arabic January 20 2011 Retrieved October 26 2016 in Arabic Listening Frequencies Monte Carlo International Retrieved October 5 2018 in Arabic Frequencies of Broadcasting Radio Sawa Retrieved October 26 2016 in Arabic External links EditAccount Suspended Egypt Radio Stations Live CaCDCUE for more information about the Egyptian Radio industry FM Radio Online database of FM stations select country EGY after logging in or continuing as guest FMSCAN reception prediction of FM TV MW SW stations also use the expert options for better results Portals Egypt Radio Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index 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