How we checked Horizon FM 104.4 Ouagadougou

Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. Nothing needed correcting. We also found 1 thing we could have published and decided not to.

What we publish, and where each part came from

What we say	Read from	When
Description Horizon FM was the first private radio station in Burkina Faso, founded in Ouagadougou in 1986 by Moustapha Thiombiano, who had spent eighteen years in American radio, including a spell on a Los Angeles station owned by Stevie Wonder, before coming home to put it on air. It broadcasts in French on 104.4 MHz in the capital and still trades on its claim to be the first free radio in Africa, a claim that took some nerve during the revolutionary years in which it launched. The sound is music led, heavy on African repertoire alongside international pop, with news, listener phone ins and open debate between the records, and it became known for a late night show in which the host handled listeners' personal problems on air. From that single Ouagadougou frequency it grew into a chain of stations around the country employing around 150 young staff.	leFaso.net interview with Moustapha Thiombiano	2026
Contact route The Facebook page is the whole presence, so its routes are the station's: the page is categorised "Radio station", its Intro panel is headed "Numéro" and publishes a Burkina Faso mobile number, and its About tab repeats that under "Contact info" as a mobile; the page has 3.2K followers and its posts carry open comment threads with replies. One correction to the brief: the page is not the station's main account but the account for a specific Horizon FM programme, titled "Ça va, ça va pas Horizon Fm", so the number reaches that programme's team rather than a station switchboard. The stored profile.php URL redirects to a /people/ permalink; I read the About tab logged out, where the Messenger button is not rendered.	Facebook, page "Ça va, ça va pas Horizon Fm"	2026
Contact page https://www.facebook.com/people/%C3%87a-va-%C3%A7a-va-pas-Horizon-Fm/100027654896551/	Facebook, page "Ça va, ça va pas Horizon Fm"	2026
Music African and international popular music, with news, phone ins and debate	leFaso.net interview with Moustapha Thiombiano	2026
Language French	leFaso.net interview with Moustapha Thiombiano	2026
Kind Studio recordings with live talk shows	leFaso.net interview with Moustapha Thiombiano	2026
Where Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 104.4 FM	leFaso.net interview with Moustapha Thiombiano	2026

What we corrected

Nothing. This station's entry matched what its own site says, which is worth recording: a clean check is a result, not an absence of one.

What we found and did not publish

Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.

What we could have said	Why we did not
The published mobile number	publishable by type only; nothing else is offered, as the page lists no website, no email and no address. source

If you think something here is wrong

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Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research current as at 2026.
This entry began as: Horizon FM 104.4 Ouagadougou — listed via Radio Browser · https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100027654896551