INTERNATIONAL EDITION Distributed to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia, the Pacific, Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America
MARCH 2018
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• Several radio production organizations create “alternative” initiative in Quito, Ecuador — Page 6
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Pakistan’s FM100 Continues Growth The country’s first commercial FM station now covers 80 million people in nine areas of the country BY WILL JACKSON KARACHI — From its beginnings as one of
Pakistan’s pioneers of FM radio, with broadcasts in three cities, FM100 has grown to now cover nine separate cities and continues to innovate across multiple platforms. The station was founded in 1994, launching on-air in March 1995 as the country’s first (continued on page 5)
Host Ajmal Khan Shobi (behind the desk) speaks to guests in the FM100 studio.
Radio Caroline Returns to its Roots
• L e groupe RTL quitte son siège historique pour un espace moderne plus fonctionnel — Page 14
NEAR COLCHESTER, England —
The station is now operating 24 hours seven days a week on AM
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Well into its second half-century of broadcasting, Radio Caroline has begun the next phase of its operations, returning to wide-area AM transmissions for the first time in nearly 30 years. Although by no means the first offshore radio station (that honor probably goes to one of the gambling ships that operated off the coast of California back in the mid-1930s), it is nevertheless the archetypical “pirate” station and one of the most famous names in European broadcasting. After some 26 years of unlicensed (continued on page 12)