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Mosaïque FM Tunis 94.9

Tagline :
"Mosaïque FM , your emotions, our vibrations".

Legal status :
Private radio. It belongs to the "Med Telecom Ltd" (Mediterranean of Media and Telecommunication).

Radio type :
Hertzian and web. Our radio broadcasts its programmes 24h/day on FM wave (frequencies 94.9, 90.3, 88.9 and 92.9) and on the web: www.mosaiquefm.net.

Date of creation :
Created on November 7, 2003.

Address :
Immeuble Mosaïque
Rue 8000, Montplaisir
1002, Tunis
Tunisie.

website :
www.mosaiquefm.net

General mission :
The planning of Mosaïque FM proposes to its audience :
- Music : oriental, soul/r'&b, house, pop/rock, world music; the listener is spoilt for choice with many musical styles. The radio also broadcasts exclusive interviews and live link-ups from special events.
- Sport : national and international championships, extreme and mechanical sports. The team covers all the sports news through daily and weekly reports.
- Talk shows : society, culture, sciences, new technologies… All the themes are treated and debated to answer the listener's questions and preoccupations.

Aimed Audience :
As a leader, Radio Mosaïque confirms its first position regarding all the targets : age, sex and et socio-professional categories. According to a Media Scan research, the main target group is between 15 and 39 years old, from class A, B and C +.

Crew :
Our structure is made of almost 60 members, including presenters and journalistic, technical, web and artistic teams.

Spoken tongue :
The programmes are broadcast in dialectal Arab and presented by young speakers, in order to establish proximity and accessibility with the audience.

Power of the main transmitter :
2 KWatts.

Area covered by your transmitter :
Mosaïque FM's programmes can be heard in an area covering 40% of the Tunisian population, that means about 4 million people, who own 65% of the country's wealth.

Number of listeners :
This year, Radio Mosaïque reached an audience record, reaching a million listeners per day only for the Tunis area, and about 300 000 more for the regions of Bizerte, Cap Bon, around the town of Sousse and in the big cities of the Tunisian Sahel. The website reaches 100 000 visits per day, including 35% abroad.

Percentage of music in your programmes :
As first musical radio in Tunisia, Mosaïque FM dedicates more than 75% of its programming to music.

Heaviest daily rotation :
5 times.

Could you tell us about the audiovisual state and legislation in your country ?
In Tunisia, Mosaïque FM is the main private generalist radio with a musical vocation. It was the first commercial station to broadcast in the country in 2003. Since then, two other private radios have been created : Jawhara FM (in 2006, on the same concept as Mosaïque) and Zitouna (religious radio).
There are also public radios like "Radio Tunis", "RTCI - Radio Tunis Chaîne internationale" (in 4 languages : French, German, Italian and English), Radio Sfax, Radio Monastir and many other public generalist local radios in every city of Tunisia.

How is your radio financed / produced ?
Advertising & sponsors : promotional spots represent 6 minutes per hour in our programmes.

Current French and francophone tracks on rotation :
French artists :
Sheryfa Luna "Il avait les mots",
Laurent Wolf "No stress",
Zaho "C'est chelou",
David Guetta "Tomorrow can wait".

Tunisian artists :
Latifa Arfaoui "Fel kam youm elli fatou",
Saber Rbai "Khallouni",
Amani Souissi "Wayn",
Ahmed Echrif "Khodhni lebaid",
Baha'a Kefi,
Adnene Chaouachi.

How do you get informed on the international music production ?
Through our programmers, who have access to all the information concerning the musical production across the world.

Who were the last French or French-speaking artists who played in your country ?
Recently, there has been the concert of Diam's, and the Tunisian artists Saber Rbai, Ahmed Echrif and Latifa Arfaoui.

Do you organise, broadcast or support shows, festivals ?
Yes, especially parties in nightclubs.

Could you tell us about the different music shows you broadcast :
- "Nostalgie", every Sunday (11 PM ­ 1 AM) : two hours to remind us the "disco" and "funk" successes of the 70’s, 80’s.
- "Midi Mix", from Monday to Friday (12 AM ­ 1 PM) : an hour of oriental music (Middle-East, Tunisia, Maghreb, Rai...).
- "Fresh Mix", from Monday to Friday (3 PM ­ 5 PM) : two hours of alternate oriental and occidental music (Tunisian, pop, latino, r&b, reggae…).
- "Dj Show", every day (11 PM ­ 12 PM) : every kind of house/dance music (progressive, minimal, electro, deep) and a special "Memories" show on Sunday.
- "Underground", every Friday (02 AM ­ 04 AM) : two hours for the underground music fanatics.
- "Out FM", every Saturday (02 AM ­ 04 AM) : musical escape with unknown tracks and artists very nice.
- "Mix Shake", every Friday (10 PM ­ 12 PM) : all the musical news in house/electro/dance with exclusive interviews of the greatest DJs.
- "Crazy Hour", Saturday and Sunday (06 PM ­ 08 PM) : its name speaks for itself, imagine an oriental song mixed with house, r'&b or reaggaeton.

Interview of Mr Noureddine Boutar,
director of Mosaïque FM
and Mr Ala Eddine Ben Amor,
musical programmer.