Audiovisual Morocco
Emissions of radio and television now cover most regions of the Kingdom and beyond the scope of the country to different parts of the world.
The park radio receivers and television has grown to reach the percentage of a radio for three citizens and a television for six, not to mention the popularity of satellite dishes, particularly since the promulgation of the law governing their use.
The audiovisual sector has also distinguished by the daily broadcast over satellite " Eutelsat ", programs of the RTM , enabling tens of millions of viewers in different continents to follow the programs of the first chain television.
According to its mission to open country, the Morocco has encouraged the emergence of private initiatives in the audiovisual field.
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RTM
History
- April 1928 : Creation Service Radio Morocco within the Office Cherifian Post, Telephone and Telegraph.
- December 1937 : Establishment of a Board of Radio Morocco and an advisory committee of broadcasting in Arabic.
- February 1947 : Financial autonomy and legal capacity to service the radio in the OCPTT.
- June 1956 : Establishment of the Consultative Committee of Arab broadcasts of Radio Morocco.
- July 1961 : Linking the Service Broadcasting Ministry of Information, Fine Arts and Tourism, giving it the name of the RTM, with legal capacity and financial autonomy.
- October 1966 : Promoting the Moroccan Broadcasting in a public institution with legal personality and financial autonomy.
- January 1968 : The RTM becomes public administration with a budget attached.
- December 1978 : The RTM becomes part of the Headquarters of the Ministry of Information (now Ministry of Communication).
- June 1994 : A decree redefined the mission of RTM, its functions and reorganize its structure.
Building a national network of outreach programs Diffusion
Morocco was a pioneer in the audiovisual field. Already in the 1950s, he had experienced a first experiment undertaken by the French company "TELMA" who saw in the European community in Morocco a potential audience. In 1951 , the operating license and distribution was assigned to the "TELMA" which began broadcasting in 1954. It was a fleeting experience that will last only a few months. The said company had to stop, not as a result of a failure but given the political events generated by the nationalist movement that shook the country.
The Moroccan public broadcaster should start immediately after the independence on 3 March 1962 , broadcasting in black and white. Color (Secam b) was not introduced until 1972.
The status of the TVM is passed successively the regime of legal capacity and financial autonomy than the public institution, then its integration into the headquarters of the Ministry of Communication, with a supplementary budget.
In terms of resources, the TVM provides balance its budget through government grants, plus a fee in the form of contributions indexed to the energy consumption of households, the surplus revenue Self-Service Advertising (SAP), and miscellaneous and incidental income arising from its services.
The Ministry of Communications has made available to the TVM for 1995 and 1996 a budget of nearly 13 million DH.
The operating budget of this organization has experienced a significant increase in 1996 to 598 million DHS for fiscal year 1996 - 1997.
Functions of the SNRT
Moroccan Television Broadcasting is a public authority under the Ministry of Communication.
Its mission is to ensure public service broadcasting as part of the state monopoly on telecommunications in accordance with the laws and regulations in force.
To this end, it shall:
- To achieve coverage of political, economic and social.
- Develop and implement any program of action and any audio-visual production for radio and television.
- Conduct any survey to study the qualitative improvement of radio and television at the regional, national and international levels.
- Provide guidance and coordination of the external services of the RTM.
- To encourage domestic production of artistic and educational programs.
- Contribute to the promotion of arts and culture programs by radio and television.
- Produce and co-produce works and audiovisual material, commercialize and distribute them on satellite and any other audiovisual means, both in Morocco and abroad, to contribute to the spread of culture and Moroccan civilization.
- Entering into any agreement for the production or exchange programs with governments and organizations concerned, for the dissemination by any audiovisual means inside or outside the kingdom.
- To publicize its programs by any method of telecommunications to meet the needs of education, information, culture and entertainment of the public.
- Display ads or programs advertising in any form.
- To organize, establish, or establish, maintain, modify and operate the national network broadcast of radio and television.
- Develop plans for medium and long terms of RTM.
- Provide ongoing training and staff development of RTM for careers in broadcasting.
- Undertake cooperation and exchanges, any action to contribute to strengthening the image of Morocco and the dissemination of culture in the world.
- To ensure the representation of the kingdom in all professional bodies of radio and television, regional, national and international, in collaboration with government authorities responsible for foreign affairs, cooperation and post and telecommunications.
Resources of RTM
Broadcasting television Moroccan has a budget schedule that the equipment is insured by a government subsidy granted by finance fee plus a contribution as indexed on the energy consumption of households supplied by the bass tension and the excess of revenue service independent of advertising and product revenue resulting from the various revenue services.
The state grant is assessed under 97-98 to 120.5 million DHS.
The establishment of a fund to promote national audiovisual landscape in the context of the Finance Act in lieu of contributions for the RTM, is likely to further strengthen the means available to that agency to ensure imperative that fit between the requirements of the mission of public service and the satisfaction of the widest audience through a full coverage of the territory.
The budget allocated to the production has been multiplied by 3 for FY 97-98, from 4.7 to 16.7 MDH MDH in 98-99.
With 4 studios (2 to Rabat and 2 ( Casablanca ), TVM covers 2 / 3 of the territory Moroccan estimated at 718.000 km with a radio system of 15,042 km and its 64 relays connected to the Eurovision , Maghrbvision and earth station telecommunications Shoul. Since March 3rd 1993 , TVM programs are transmitted by satellite European "Eutelsat2F3." From this day programs TVM are followed with interest by the Moroccan community abroad.
The objectives of the transmission of RTM satellite are of two sorts: meeting the desires of migrants and submit to international opinion the image of Morocco modern.
The classification programs TVM can note that the centrality of information remains a central and privileged in the grid.
In March 1993 , TVM has begun its transition to digital production activities. TVM equipment has been strengthened and that the acquisition of five new digital cameras available to the Service reports, a unit of digital postproduction and 3 units with electronic keyboard including one in Rabat and two in Casablanca.
For the TV can compete with other private channels, an overhaul will be developed. And the RTM will be transformed into a true multi-service holding company, television, radio, television broadcasting network, an advertising and so on. Everything will be spun off and transformed into a structure with legal personality and financial autonomy and management.
Staff of RTM
The Moroccan television broadcasting shall contact the officials and players of 2356 in the areas of programming and production.
Organization of the administration of RTM
RTM is administered by a Director General. It includes:
- The Directorate of radio.
- The Directorate of television.
- The Directorate of television.
- The Department of Human Resources and General Affairs.
- The Division of External Relations and Cooperation.
- Field Services consists of regional stations.
The reform will also concern the human resources aspect, a restructuring based on:
- Requalification training and continuing education.
- New scheme for compensation and salary scales motivating.
- Redevelopment plan and accompanying measures not to mention upgrading to the new project succeed.
2M
From its inception, 2M presented a unique experience which helped garner many achievements. In 1988 , the company Soread signed with the State a concession contract allowing it to program and broadcast of television throughout the country. This is a public service concession, and as such it has obligations for the concessionaire (Soread) and forcing (the state).
The first commercial TV station and Morocco (but also in Africa and the Arab world ) began March 4, 1989, following the signing of an operating agreement and a specification in 1988 between the Moroccan state and Soread. It broadcasts in encrypted with two beaches in the clear. Like all the pay channels, it wants elitist. A first selection is made by the public via the monthly portfolio. 2M was managed by the ONA (Omnium Nord Africain) first private industrial group in Africa in association with the French channel TF1 , SOFIRAD, the Canadian group VIDEORONet Moroccan institutional investors.
Emitting Ain Sebaa ( Casablanca ), the second television channel Moroccan had set a goal to achieve by 1994 the 250,000 subscribers. At launch, the channel has generated genuine enthusiasm.
2M has indeed evolved into a complex cultural environment. The chain has suffered from the development of piracy and unfair competition. In 5 years, 2M has changed considerably. It is more internationally oriented thematic channel originally conceived, but a general channel, proximity to express even more clearly its difference, its specificity against other image sources.
After seven years of operation, the principal shareholder of the Soread, ONA, withdrew from the management of the chain was in financial difficulties. The state signed the concession has regained control of 2M 19 June 1996 with a 68% equity. The financial turnaround of the company managing the chain is going through the assistance of funds for the National Audiovisual Promotion, boosting advertising market and the commercialization of encryption products accessories.
Al Maghribiya
Al Maghribiya , as its name suggests, disseminates dominated by domestic production. In a first phase, this statement translates into making a program schedule constructed from the best programs and the Moroccan TV 2M.
Grid Maghribia is not an assembly program of the two chains, it is the result of an editorial position defined to meet the particularity and objectives of this channel.
Medi 1 TV
First broadcast only via satellite since its inception on 1 December 2006 under the name Medi 1 Sat, the chain was originally a French-Moroccan. In 2008 the shares were repurchased and French chain becomes entirely Moroccan. On October 30, 2010 at 21:20, the chain began his broadcast on the analogue terrestrial network in Morocco, known as Medi 1 TV. Diffusion on DTT is scheduled for later.
Objective
Achieving competitiveness at national and international
The transition to air broadcasting programs 2M, from 10 January 1997 , is an important event in all respects. Repositioning was based on three concepts: entertainment (movies, drama, serials), proximity (such as news, debates ...) and the curiosity and knowledge (documentaries and magazines). This channel, now received by nearly 70% of the population, considerably enhances the Moroccan audiovisual field and contributes more to the opening of Morocco to the world.
The new policy decision aims to clarify the role of 2M in this configuration utility:
- Clearly define its mission and positioning in this configuration utility.
- Develop a specification in a logic of complementarity and efficiency.
- Stop funding sources.
Public Sector Development and diversification of supply
In addition, the plan provides for the creation of thematic channels and radio. In short, proximity is the key word on the upgrade of the sector of broadcasting.
List of Moroccan television channels
- Al Aoula : (First) is the first television channel.
- 2M : is the second television channel.
- Arryadia : (The Sports) is a sports-themed chain.
- Arrabi : (The Fourth) is a chain of educational and cultural themes.
- Al Maghribia : (The Moroccan) is a generalist channel promotion of Morocco in the International, it takes the best programs of Al Moroccan Aoula and 2M.
- Assadissa (The Sixth) is a religious-themed chain.
- Aflam TV (TV Movie) is the movie channel.
- Tamazight : is a general channel promotion of the Berber culture.
- Medi 1 TV : is a general channel whose pivot is private information.
- Al Aoula Laayoune : is the first television channel with a drop of 3 hours per day regional program (between 21h-00h GMT) for regions of the Moroccan Sahara.
Radio Morocco
The new emissions equipment and distribution
The Moroccan Radio broadcasts 93 hours a day of programs from the central station of Rabat and 10 regional stations ( Tangier , Tetouan , Oujda , Fez , Meknes , Casablanca , Marrakech , Agadir , Laayoune and Dakhla ).
Regional stations broadcasting on the local airwaves (about 4 hours per day) and relay the central station in turn (3 hours per week).
Moroccan radio, which covers almost the entire country, affects 95% of the population in terms of long waves, 84% in terms of medium wave and 48% for frequency modulation (FM).
From 3 March 1993 , thanks to satellite European " Eutelsat ", the Moroccan radio has entered the era of satellite broadcasting. Like other resorts, the Moroccan radio starts the era of new digital radio broadcast technology and recording and music programs (system and digital processing and computer operation).
Moroccan radio is equipped with 25 studios, including 7 installed at the central station of Rabat. This infrastructure allows it to provide an annual production of 34,675 hours of programming. 64.20% of this production is broadcast live while 35.80% is deferred.
Meeting the expectations of listeners
Moroccan radio produces a variety of programs with varied ranging from cultural entertainment. She also devotes a special place to music in all styles (classical, jazz , pop, cabaret), plus documentation, thematic debates and major sports broadcasts and artistic.
Political information, cultural, sports and variety programming in Arabic, Spanish, English and dialects, are the material used and treated daily by a staff of more than 92 reporters , 66 producers and 75 technicians (including 9 engineers ).
programs in several languages
International chain emits 19 hours 24, 4:30 p.m.-language Arab , 1 hour, 30-language French , one hour in Spanish and 1 hour 30 language English.
Emissions are 90% presented live, the rest deferred. These emissions are a musical nature and entertainment (50%), cultural , sporting , social , economic , medical and teaching (50%). For several years now, language programs so far as Berber dialects, began to surface through various programs. It is still much lower compared to the space left in the French language which is yet a third language that spoke Berber.
Moroccan media and opening to the Mediterranean
Medi 1 was born in 1980 of the common will Moroccan and French partners grouping among the banks and corporations on both sides. Radio Mediterranean International is a trading company, legal person of private law form of association in participation. The French side is represented by the SOFIRAD (French Society of Broadcast Funding) responsible for the management of state ownership in the French radio stations French television France and abroad. The Moroccan partners hold the majority of shares amounting to 51% of the capital , which gives the company "RMI" Moroccan nationality.
Budget Medi 1 is driven largely by fees from advertisers to whom it provides services by issuing their advertising whatever their broadcasting mode.
RMI primarily broadcasts from its transmitter from Nador in longwave and shortwave, but also FM and satellite (located in Casablanca , powered beam from the studios of Radio). It covers, and the entire Western Mediterranean region ( Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia , Mauritania and part of Libya ) and can be received in Spain , in France and Italy.
His hearing Maghreb is between 22 and 23 million listeners. It exceeds the 25 million threshold during the holidays.
Specifications setting out the principles that underpin its mission as promoting the broadcast media and raising the cultural level of the listeners.
It's a radio general bilingual (French-Arabic) for information and entertainment. It produces and broadcasts every day from its studios in Tangier 20 hours of programs (from 5 am to 1 pm GMT). Besides the numerous appointments of information, the program consists of a Medi emissions animation service.
List of Moroccan radios
| Radio | Genre and audience | Internet Streaming |
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| Aswat | News - Talk - Sports - Music: 24/24 and replay of the principal emissions at night between 1am and 6am | Play  |
| Radio Atlantic | General, social issues, economics, information, music | Play |
| Cap Radio | Target the northern region of Morocco, the Rif , the emissions are in the dialect Berber Tarifit dialtectal and Arabic ( Moroccan ) | Play |
| Casa FM | Entertainment, music, religion (Friday) | Play |
| Chada FM | Music, various programs, talk show | Play |
| Radio Mohammed VI of the Holy Quran | Thematic programming, focusing primarily on reading the Qur'an and the broadcasting of religious | Play |
| National Chain | Offers a broad and diverse programming designed to meet the information needs, culture, education and entertainment of the widest possible audience. The "National Radio" offers also an outreach program by conducting daily regional broadcasts for each of its regional stations which broadcast programming aimed at satisfying the needs for information and entertainment to a wide audience local or regional | Play |
| Hit Radio | Youth-oriented radio, including music rap | Play |
| Medi 1 | General, social issues, economics, information, music, Medi 1 covers all the Maghreb and Maghreb Radio wants. | Play |
| MFM Atlas | Provides a general purpose programming consists of local information, services and entertainment | Play |
| MFM Sass | Provides a general purpose programming consists of local information, services and entertainment | Play |
| MFM Souss | Provides a general purpose programming consists of local information, services and entertainment | Play |
| Rabat Chane Inter | Provides a general purpose programming, open to the world at meeting the needs for information and entertainment for young audiences. Highlights the linguistic diversity of Morocco and its openness to the international arena and contributes to the spread of culture and civilization Moroccan foreign audiences | Play |
| Radio 2M | Offers programming that includes music programs, newsletters, and programs devoted to particular interests of youth, promotion of young talents, the musical and cultural events, leisure and sport | Play |
| Radio Plus Marrakech | Provides a general purpose programming consists of local information, services and entertainment | Play |
| Radio Plus Agadir | Provides a general purpose programming consists of local information, services and entertainment | Play |
| Radio Sawa | A radio station funded by the Arab government of the United States. The purpose of this organization is to provide balanced information to the youth of the Arab countries, the U.S. government considering the available information in the Middle East are biased. It broadcasts popular music in Arabic, English and Spanish in order to attract listeners. | Play |
| Deluxe Radio | The first radio station dedicated to luxury and lifestyle Moroccan and international | Play |
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