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• Moroccan Man Flown to France for Life-Saving Heart Transplant After Radio Appeal Raises $160,000
  4 October 2019, by Kamal

  It took a radio show to save a young man from the city of Ouarzazate. He needed a heart transplant. A kitty of 1.75 million dirhams was collected thanks to the donations of benefactors.
  The young man was transported yesterday, Thursday, October 3, by a medical plane to a hospital in France, where he will have to undergo a heart transplant operation requiring the sum of 1.6 million dirhams.
  After knocking on all doors, the young man turned to a radio show, which broadcast his call for (…)

• Host Momo pays cash for a prank
  27 March 2024, by Prince

  Mohamed Bousfiha (alias Momo) was presented on Tuesday before the prosecutor of the Casablanca court. The radio host is accused of having intentionally disclosed false information on the air.
  Mohamed Bousfiha, as well as two other people, were before the prosecutor on Tuesday, according to sources at Barlamane.com, noting that the host is suspected of having deliberately broadcast a hoax on the radio.
  Momo had announced a purse snatching that never occurred. The information was relayed (…)

• New Moroccan Music Station Sol Radio FM Launches with HACA Approval
  13 November 2019, by Sylvanus

  The Moroccan media landscape is enriched with a new radio station called "Sol Radio FM", exclusively dedicated to music and entertainment. The High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HACA) granted the operating license to its promoter on Tuesday, November 12.
  According to the explanations of Latifa Akharbach, president of the HACA, the granting of the license was only possible at the end of the current process of instruction of the various aspects of the file (legal, editorial, (…)

• Moroccan Radio Show Suspended Over Host’s Nazi Comparison of Vaccine Pass
  9 November 2021, by Armel

  Since Monday, November 8, the "Les Matins Luxe" program broadcast on Luxe Radio will be suspended for 3 weeks, following a decision by the Higher Council for Audiovisual Communication (CSCA).
  The announcement was made by the radio station itself on Sunday, specifying that the sanction concerns remarks made by the columnist Rachid Achachi during a morning show in which he compared the adoption of the vaccine pass in Morocco to "Nazi Germany of the 1940s".
  Following the decision, the (…)

• Morocco to Overhaul Public Broadcasting: SNRT, 2M, and Medi1 TV Merger Planned
  27 May 2021, by Jérôme

  The reorganization of the Moroccan public audiovisual pole is one of the major projects in the sector. With the grouping of SNRT, 2M and Medi1 TV, this project will, it is said, promote the improvement and diversification of programs.
  During a meeting of the Education, Culture and Communication Commission in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, the Minister of Culture, Othman El Ferdaous, explained what this reorganization of the public audiovisual pole announced on the Al Aoula news (…)

• Morocco’s Highway Authority Launches 24/7 Traffic Radio Station
  27 June 2021, by Sylvanus

  Autoroutes du Maroc (ADM) aims to create its own radio that will allow to follow road traffic full-time. In this sense, the company has just launched a call for tenders.
  "Traffic radio", this is the name of the future station of the company Autoroutes du Maroc (ADM). It has launched a call for tenders worth more than 20 million DH for its realization, reports Le Desk. The European Investment Bank will finance this company up to 20.2 million dirhams. As for ADM, it will make a financial (…)

• Morocco Launches "English Time" Radio Program to Boost Youth Language Skills
  27 July 2021, by Armel

  The Ministry of National Education, the National Radio and Television Company and the British Council are strengthening their cooperation in the field of learning the English language in Morocco.
  During the ceremony presided over by Minister Saaïd Amzazi, the President of the National Radio and Television Company (SNRT), Mr. Faïçal Laraichi, signed with Mr. Tony Riley, Director of the British Council in Morocco, a partnership agreement for the broadcast of a new radio program for the (…)

• Algerian Singer Cheb Khaled Calls Police on Man Claiming to Be His Son at Radio Station
  4 July 2023, by Prince

  Harassed by a young man who claims to be his son, Cheb Khaled called the police to arrest him after he showed up at his workplace, in the premises of the radio station Beur FM in Charenton-le-Pont (Val-de-Marne).
  The singer Khaled, 63, called the police overnight from Sunday to Monday to arrest the 27-year-old man who had allegedly burst into the Beur FM radio premises and demanded to see his father. The radio host made it clear to him that the raï star and author of the hit "Aïcha" did (…)

• Moroccan Radio Host Suspended for Sexist Remarks About Female Soccer Fan
  7 July 2019, by Kamal

  Adil El Omari, host of a show on the airwaves of Radio Mars, famous for his often misogynistic remarks, was suspended from his duties for three days. He had made sexist and virulent remarks against a radio listener.
  In the show "The Scholars of Mars", the host’s remarks provoked an outcry among listeners who did not appreciate his interventions or their misogynistic content. In response to a message from a listener who gave her opinion on the performance of the Atlas Lions, the host (…)

• Morocco Launches Highway Radio Service to Improve Road Safety and Traffic Flow
  28 January 2020, by Sylvanus

  The National Motorway Company of Morocco (ADM) intends to create its own radio for the dissemination of highway traffic information. The decision was made at the last session of its board of directors on Friday, January 24 in Rabat.
  The objectives pursued through the creation of a radio dedicated to ADM are diverse and varied. The aim is to enhance the level of service offered to highway users, to strengthen road safety and to reduce congestion on certain highway corridors, writes the (…)