Starting from the 1st of December 2022, Arabsat announced, in partnership with the Moroccan News Agency (MAP) , the launch of Moroccan news channel “M24” and radio “RIM” on the Arabsat Badr-4 satellite, covering the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe.
The move is part of the Agency’s efforts to reach wider audiences locally and regionally to highlight the Kingdom of Morocco’s history, civilization, art, culture and traditions.
On this important occasion, Alhamedi Alanezi, President and CEO of Arabsat, stated that the launching of Moroccan news channel and radio on Arabsat Badr-4 by covering North Africa, the Middle East and Europe represents a significant event in terms of Arabsat’s continuous strategy to reinforce its services to Arabsat audience viewers in North Africa and the Maghreb. He emphasized the significant considerable quality provided by the channel and the radio in terms of the diverse content and the magnificent model form it demonstrates of the Kingdom of Morocco.
He also completed by adding: “This partnership will increase our determination is to provide our audience with the optimal services to sustain our leadership such this field”.
For his part, Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, Director General of MAP, expressed his enthusiasm for this collaboration, stating that these two channels aim to present “unique arabic products” that provide audiences with verified and credible information about Morocco and the world. Backed by a vast network of almost 200 journalists and correspondents at regional and international level, M24 and RIM Radio have considerable assets combining between a “hard news” approach and a “slow news” model that seeks to debate, explain and persuade in order to give economic, political and social actors the time to explain to viewers what they are doing.
It is worth mentioning that the Arabsat Badr-4 satellite has earned the trust of the Arabian audience in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. The institution of “Arabsat” has executed several development projects during the past years, which has increased the number of viewers and followers. Arabsat today has more than 780 television channels and radio stations in addition to pay-tv networks and channels with HD technology.
Viewers can watch and listen to M24 and RIM on the following frequency:
Satellite: Arabsat BADR-4 @ 26° East
Coverage: MENA & Europe
Frequency: 12072 MHz
Polarity: Horizontal
Symbol Rate: 27500
FEC: ¾
Transmission: DVB-S2
Modulation: 8PSK
About Arabsat:
Founded in 1976 by the 21 member-states of the Arab League, Arabsat has been serving the growing needs of the Arab world for over 46 years, operating from it headquarter in Riyadh-KSA and two Satellite control stations in Riyadh and Tunis.
Now one of the world’s top satellite operators and by far the leading satellite services provider in the Arab world, it carries over 500 TV channels, 200 radio stations, pay-tv networks and wide variety of HD channels reaching tens of millions of homes in more than 80 countries across the Middle East, Africa, and Europe—including an audience of over 300 million viewers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region alone tuned into Arabsat’s video “hotspot” at 26°E.
Operating a growing fleet of owned satellites at the 20°E, 26°E, 30.5°E and 39°E, ARABSAT is the only satellite operator in the MENA region offering the full spectrum of Broadcast, Telecommunications and Broadband services. This capacity will continue to expand with the launching of new satellites, making ARABSAT satellites’ fleet the youngest in the region.
Arabsat also maintains strategic partnerships with most of the world’s leading satellite companies and VAS integrators and with the acquisition of Hellas Sat, one of the leading telecom groups in southeastern Europe, these partnerships and acquisitions continue to expand Arabsat’s reach with new orbital slots and frequency rights, allowing customers to reach farther than ever and deliver content and state-of-the-art solutions to any end-viewers audience or business partner around the world.
About M24:
M24 is the continuous news channel of the Moroccan News Agency (MAP), headquartered in Rabat. The channel covers Moroccan and international news, true to the values of MAP, the leading information provider in Morocco. Thanks to this channel, viewers are able to perceive the news from a global perspective, touching on different aspects. In addition to continuous news, M24 is also a channel that caters to the different tastes of its audience through programmes dedicated to debates and analysis, culture, society, health, cars, etc.
M24 is also broadcast online on its website (www.m24tv.ma)
About RIM Radio:
RIM Radio is the Moroccan News Agency (MAP) news radio station positioned as a reference for reliable, diversified and continuous information in Arabic, with live broadcasts, thematic podcasts and newscasts in Amazigh, English, French, and Spanish.
In addition to its vocation as a continuous news medium, RIM Radio offers its listeners a varied programme schedule to suit different tastes. These programmes cover politics, business, sport, culture, religion and society.
In addition, programs and reports in streaming are downloadable on its website (www.rimradio.ma) and via satellites.
About MAP :
Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP) is the Moroccan official News Agency. Founded in 1959 and headquartered in Rabat, MAP is the leading news provider in Morocco and a genuine public information hub, gathering and producing news in five languages (English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Amazigh).
Beyond its function as a news agency, which is the core business of the hub — texts, photos, images, sounds, graphics —MAP is present on all niches of information, on all periodicities and all vectors, as part of its strategic plan. MAP is also geographically present in all continents and each and every region of Morocco.
With its large network of journalists, all working to research and produce reliable and verified information, MAP has made the fight against fake news a top priority.
