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BBC Monitoring observes that the Qatar Broadcasting Service (QBS), the emirate's public radio broadcaster, now has its Arabic, English and French services available on live audio streams from their web site at http://www.qatarradio.net 
A list of the URL's for the main pages follows; all textual content is in Arabic unless otherwise indicated:
Arabic audio stream: http://www.qatarradio.net/arastreaming.htm  
English audio stream: http://www.qatarradio.net/engstreaming.htm 
French audio stream: http://www.qatarradio.net/engstreaming.htm 
Arabic service programme guide: http://www.qatarradio.net/ourst.htm#ar
English service programme guide (in English): http://www.qatarradio.net/ourst.htm#en 
Urdu service programme guide: http://www.qatarradio.net/ourst.htm#ur 
The Arabic Service has a 24-hour schedule and broadcasts terrestrially on 675 and 954 kHz mediumwave, 90.8 MHz FM for Doha, and 92.6, 93.4, 97.6, 102.0 and 104.0 MHz FM in the rest of the country.
English is on the air 0300-1000 and 1300-2200 gmt, whilst French is at 1000-1300 gmt, and both broadcast terrestrially on 97.5 MHz FM. The Urdu Service is aired at 1600-1900 gmt on 1233 and 1602 kHz mediumwave.
QBS also broadcasts an Arabic-language music service called Voice of the Gulf (Sout al-Khaleej) on 100.8 MHz on the FM band. This has its own web site with a live audio stream available at http://www.soutalkhaleej.fm 
The Qatar Broadcasting Service is part of the Qatar General Broadcasting and Television Corporation, which has an autonomous government budget and is under the direct authority of the Council of Ministers. The Corporation, established in May 1997, also includes Qatar Television, the Department of Publications, and Qatar News Agency. 
Source: BBC Monitoring research in English 3 Mar 05 via DX Listening Digest 5-039 (4/3-2005)
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