Radio in Qatar

Now they have launched 4 Indian Radio stations in Qatar.

89.6 MHz - OneFM

91.7 MHz - Radio Suno

98.6 MHz - Radio Malayalam

106.3 MHz - Radio Olive

Now only Qatar started launching Indian radios in Qatar.

Frequency Station Genre Language Operator

87.9 MHz BBC World Service News English/Arabic BBC Radio

88.2 MHz Holy Quran Radio Quran/Religious Arabic Emirates Media Inc.

89.1 MHz Radio 4 Indian Hits Hindi/Urdu Channel 4 Media

90.5 MHz Radio Sawa Arabic & English Top 40 Arabic Voice of America

92.0 MHz Dubai 92 Rock/Adult Contemporary English Arabian Radio Network

92.6 MHz FM 92.6 News Arabic Fujairah Media Network

93.9 MHz Dubai FM Arabic Classic Hits Arabic Arabian Radio Network

94.4 MHz Sharjah FM Religious/Talk Arabic Sharjah Government

94.7 MHz Oxygen FM Malayam Hits/Entertainment Malayam Bose Group

95.3 MHz Pulse 953 Bollywood/Classic Hits Hindi/South Asian Arabian Radio Network

96.5 MHz Radio Bahrain (Bh) Rock/Pop/Variety English Bahrain Broadcasting

96.7 MHz Hit 96.7 Malayam Hits Malayam Arabian Radio Network

97.1 MHz Al Emarat FM Arabic Classic Hits Arabic Emirates Media

97.5 MHz QBS Radio 4 (Qa) Variety English/French Qatar Broadcasting Service

97.8 MHz UAQ FM Arabic Classic Hits Arabic Shamal Media

99.0 MHz Al Arabiya Contemporary Arabic Arabic Arabian Radio Network

99.3 MHz Radio 2 Classic Hits English Gulf News Broadcasting

100.5 MHz Radio 1 (AD) Top 40/Dance/R&B English Gulf News Broadcasting

100.9 MHz Al Khaleejia Khaleeji Music Arabic Arabian Radio Network

101.6 MHz City FM Contemporary Hits Hindi Arabian Radio Network

102.3 MHz Radio Bahrain Arabic Talk Arabic Bahrain Broadcasting

103.2 MHz The Coast Adult Contemporary/Easy English Fujairah Media Network

103.8 MHz Dubai Eye News, Talk & Sport English Arabian Radio Network

104.1 MHz Radio 1 Top 40/Dance/R&B English Gulf News Broadcasting

104.4 MHz Virgin Radio Top 40 English Arabian Radio Network

104.8 MHz Channel 4 Rock/Contemporary Hits English Channel 4 Media

105.4 MHz Radio Spice South Asian Hits Hindi & English,spanish,tamil Fujairah Media Network

106.0 MHz Radio 2 (AD) Classic Hits English Gulf News Broadcasting

106.2 MHz Hum FM Indian Classic Hits Hindi/Urdu Shamal Media

107.8 MHz Al Rabea Arabic Hits Arabic Channel 4 Media

Basically, I am trying to find out what the situation is there right now with radio because it might become a business interest for me.

Is QBS govt owned? does anyone know who runs it? (I.e. the boss? lol)

Thanks again for your reflection on this!!

~:oD

Vegas...I hope you dont embed flirts in the ipod songs...lol

Before it was QBS....Radio 97.5 FM....The bloody news always started with "United States...." or "United Nation..." and the songs were repeated...

Later I fell in love with Rani & Suruji of "Nation Ka Fun Station Radio 4 FM at 89.1 FM" of UAE....with their non stop chatter & hot topics.....the music was always good Hindi songs....now a days the reception has detiorated and I can hardly get it now.

So now for me its the Asianet (Malayalam) at 657 AM. Before it used to broadcast at 15.37 AM & the reception was bad....but now at at 657AM its excellent.

try to find speakers who CAN READ properly the news...couple a days ago, driving home at evening time, I listened one women at 6pm news, she hardly, but hardly could present the news...I thought either she was sleepy or drunk, cause I also hardly followed her...After the news she started to present a music by request program, making some jokes which she only understood and laughed...wonder if she is like this all the time when she is on duty! No excuses. Maybe is better to choose a non-native english speaker for news,with a good diction, hoping to give better attention to pronunciation...just an idea!

1. Only transmit one language per station. QBS loses the majority of its listeners when they switch to French and back to English.

2. Hire a Station Manager and Producers with successful track records.

3. Hire a Director of News who is good with English.

4. Introduce competition by retransmitting the English service of the BBC. Just like they do in Abu Dhabi.

5. Make the time-slots consistent. For example, during drive time, have a play list that's composed of chart hits from the past two years. No exceptions. Stick to the playlist whether it's Bernie or Joe Mitri on the mike.

6. Ditch the speech programmes. "London call" and the other speech-based programmes are low quality. QBS should decide it's a pop music station and stick to that decision.

7. Daytime is for chart music. Night-time is for dance, rock, goth, country & western, etc. Play the less popular stuff when fewer people are listening. That makes sense doesn't it?

8. Qatarization has no place in the hiring process for radio DJs. People like to listen to familiar voice patterns on the radio. If you want Brits to listen, hire British DJs. If you want Americans to listen, hire American DJs.

9. Remove the Q-Media monopoly on radio advertising. Allow the radio stations to charge a fair rate for ads, and generate cash they can plough back into recruiting talent.

Podcasts and Internet radio are so much better than the sh!it QBS is pumping out.

On a good day Bahrain can be picked up ;o)

Did you Google it first?

I think you have to park next to me to pick it up though...

You can't teach experience...