Radio (2 of 3)
Various photographs of King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz
Various photographs of King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz
Various photographs of King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz
Radio (2 of 3)

These six broadcasting stations provide the following six main radio broadcast services:

1. The General Programs Service: This station concentrates on transmitting live programs, like news, conferences, national occasions, prayer and pilgrimage rituals. It transmits for twenty hours a day.

2. The Second Programs Service: This station concentrates on transmitting popular programs, varieties, analyses, ritual of prayers from the Holy City of Makkah and sports competitions. It transmits for eighteen hours a day.

3. The Islamic Call Service: This station serves the Islamic Call, conveying the message of Islam to the whole world, presenting Islamic thought and its achievements in the history of human civilization, defending the issues of the Islamic nation and presenting the importance of Islamic heritage. This service started under the name of “Voice of Islam”.

4. The Holy Quran Service: The service started in March 1972. Its transmission reaches all the Arab world in addition to East and South Asia and mid-African countries. It transmits for twenty-four hours a day.

5. European Program Service: This service transmits in two languages, English and French, for thirteen hours a day.

6. The Oriented Programs Service: The oriented programs started in 1950 to introduce Islam and present the authentic Islamic doctrine in the ten local languages of the countries to which the programs are transmitted. These languages are: Bengali, Indonesian, Malaysian, Mbariya, Persian, Somali, Swahili, Turkestani, Turkish, Urdu.

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King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz