Mauritania’s only indigenous radio broadcaster, state-owned Radio Mauritania, is now available on a live audio stream from their website at www.radiomauritanie.com. Radio Mauritania’s main service broadcasts in Arabic, French and local languages at 0630-0100 gmt (equivalent to local time) from studios in Nouakchott, the capital. It can be heard on shortwave 4845/7245 kHz, mediumwave 783 kHz, and on various frequencies on FM throughout the country. The website also lists 98.0 MHz FM as a frequency for “Youth Radio”, presumably only available in Nouakchott.
Radio Mauritania and its associated television service, TV Mauritania (streamed live at www.tvm.mr), are also carried on the following satellites:
Arab 2B at 30.5 degrees east, right-hand polarization, symbol rate 8150, FEC 3/4.
Badr 3 at 26.0 degrees east, horizontal polarization, 11727 MHz, symbol rate 27500, FEC 3/4.
The only other radio stations believed to be on air terrestrially in Mauritania are FM relays of French international broadcaster RFI (in Nouakchott) and BBC World Service (in Nouakchott and second city Nouadhibou).
Radio Mauritania is owned and operated by state-owned corporation ORTM (Office de Radiodiffusion-Television Mauritanienne).
(Source: BBC Monitoring research 13 Apr 07/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)
