Radio Stations UAE

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Dubai Radio - list of Dubai and UAE radio stations, and some comments on the good ones to listen to.

Any comments? Anyone know what's happened to Virgin Radio that was supposed to crank up in December 2007 (at least, thus spake Mr Virgin himself, Richard Branson, when he was in Dubai November 2007)?

Other topics related to radio in Dubai...

BBC world service Dubai (actually it's in Abu Dhabi but can be received in most of the UAE)
Dubai Eye - various talk shows
Dubai television
Nanette and Victoria - two popular presenters who went AWOL
Pulse 95.3 - new radio station September 2007
Talkshows Dubai - radio stations that are mostly/all talk
UAE Radio 2
Virgin Radio Dubai

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There were a couple of useful articles in the Gulf News this week (01 February 2008) about the history of radio in Dubai...

archive.gulfnews.com/nation/Media/10186275.html

In the mid 70s, the UAE's English language radio news presenters would ask Gulf Air crew to bring them newspapers from Europe and read out some of the stories on air. That obviously meant that the news was late.

archive.gulfnews.com/articles/08 ... 86272.html

"The impact of radio is on the subconscious," says Raja Vikram Dhar, head of Gulf News Broadcasting. With people on the roads of the UAE for hours due to regular traffic jams, the effect is definitely going to last longer.

"More than 70 per cent of radio listening in the emirates is in the car," said Dhar. Radio stations have been around for a while here, but English FM service took to the air in the mid '70s, mainly in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.