Algeria Quran Radio is an Algerian

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Broadcast

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Radio Algeria The Entreprise nationale de radiodiffusion sonore (''ENRS'', the National Sound Broadcasting Company, Algerian Radio, or Radio Algérienne; in ar, المؤسسة العمومية للبث الإذاعي) is Algeria's state-owned public radio broa ...

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began broadcasting on July 12, 1991 on

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s (MW), with an hourly rate of daily broadcasting of only six hours a day, from 05:00 AM until 11:00 AM. The foundation of this radio station was made when the writer and novelist

Tahar Ouettar Tahar Ouettar ( ar, الطاهر وطار; 1936 – August 12, 2010) was an Algerian writer. Ouettar was called "one of the North African nation’s most prolific Arabic language authors". Born into a Berber family in Sedrata, he was a supporter o ...

was the director general of the Algerian national radio stations. This radio continued to broadcast in this manner until March 6, 1992 when it began to produce and diversify the panel and range of its broadcasts. Quran Radio has nevertheless experienced fluctuations in the hours of its broadcast since its creation until July 5, 2008 when the hourly rate of its broadcasts stabilized for ten hours a day divided into two periods. Since 2008, the morning time slot of its broadcast thus extended over a period of two hours, going from midnight 0:00 a.m. until 2:00 a.m., while the second period extended from 5:00 a.m. from morning until 1:00 p.m. The two-hour period extending from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. was devoted to the countries of the African Sahel on medium waves, and it will be rebroadcast in the same night on

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s, and this from 8:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. The diffusion of Quran Radio has been extended from Thursday, February 18, 2021 to broadcast its broadcasts over a continuous 24-hour period.

Directors

* Mohamed Zoubda * Aïssa Hamdi

References

External links

Algeria Quran Radio website

Algeria Quran Radio Live
{{DEFAULTSORT:Algeria Quran Radio Radio in Algeria Radio stations in Algeria Islamic radio stations Radio stations established in 1991 1991 establishments in Algeria Mass media in Algeria

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