Al-Bayan (radio station)

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Al-Bayan
Broadcast area Syria, Iraq, Libya (ISIL occupied areas)
Frequency 92.5 / 99.3 FM (Mosul, Iraq)
First air date 2015
Format Religious / News / Talk
Owner Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(unlicensed)
Website http://bayanradio.xyz/ , http://www.bayanradio.ga/

Al-Bayan (Arabic: البيان‎‎) is a radio station in Iraq owned and operated by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) which broadcasts at 92.5 on the FM dial. The station airs a news/talk format and broadcasts in the Arabic, Kurdish, English, French, and Russian languages.[1]

Sample from an English-language news bulletin broadcast in April 2015 on al-Bayan.

Originating from Mosul, Iraq, al-Bayan programs have been credited with being "highly professional and slickly produced" and have been compared to NPR and the BBC for tone and quality.[2][3][4] Al-Bayan's reporting on ISIL military operations have been referenced by the Associated Press and the Washington Post.[5][6]

Al-Bayan went on-air in early 2015 with English-language news bulletins added to the multilingual programming lineup in April of that year.[7][8] The station offers a wide range of programming including nasheed, Quran recitations, speeches, Fiqh, language instruction, and interview shows, interspersed with regular news bulletins and field reports from al-Bayan correspondents in Iraq and Syria.[9] English-language news bulletins are delivered by an American-accented, male newsreader and datelines are read in the Islamic calendar.[2]

Known frequencies (April, 2016) are: Iraq: Mosul 92.5/99.3 FM,[10] Fallujah 93.6 FM, Syria: Raqqah 99.9 FM, Palmyra 99.3 FM [11] / Libya: Sirte 87.8 FM, Darnah 95.5 FM, Benghazi 94.3 FM.[12]

Sister stations

In February 2015, ISIL captured a radio station "Makmadas" in Sirte, Libya. It is unclear whether that station is still under ISIL management.[13] An ISIL-owned satellite television station and a powerful radio station on 94.3 FM, also based out of Sirte and operating under the brand name "Al-Tawheed," began broadcasting the previous October. Radio Al-Tawheed (former Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting Corporation transmitter) have 10 kilowatts output power and is received in Europe via Sporadic E propagation.[14]

See also

References

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