How we checked Radio Baidoa 89.5 FM
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. We changed 2 things about this entry. We also found 2 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
| What we say | Read from | When |
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Description
Radio Baidoa is the station of Baidoa Media Corporation, broadcasting to Baidoa and the surrounding South West State of Somalia. It calls itself a voice for democratic ideas and values in the region, and the output is news and talk almost throughout. A typical day is built from Somali news bulletins, interviews with officials and elders, articles and analysis, and a sports desk that follows both local football and the European leagues. The subjects are the ones that matter locally: federal and regional politics, security and the fight against Al-Shabaab, drought and displacement, and the safety of journalists. Alongside the Somali service the station publishes a smaller run of news written in English for readers outside the region.
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Baidoa Media Corporation | 2026 |
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Contact route
a "Nala Soo Xiriir" contact page publishing a station mailbox on its own domain and the city it broadcasts from, plus a footer block headed "Nagala soo xariir" carrying two Somali mobile numbers labelled Cellphone and three further station-branded mailboxes, two of them on the station's own radiobaidoa.net domain; plus its own Facebook, X and YouTube accounts. That footer block appears on every page including the site's own 404, which is where I confirmed it, and the WordPress REST index lists nine pages with only the one contact page among them, so the footer is the main carrier
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Baidoa Media Corporation | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://baidoamediaco.com/nala-soo-xiriir/
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Baidoa Media Corporation | 2026 |
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Music
news, interviews, current affairs and sport
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Baidoa Media Corporation | 2026 |
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Language
Somali, with a smaller run of news written in English
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Baidoa Media Corporation | 2026 |
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Kind
talk
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Baidoa Media Corporation | 2026 |
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Where
Baidoa, South West State, Somalia
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Baidoa Media Corporation | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
|---|---|---|
| language code |
so
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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The station's own site is written in Somali throughout, with section and programme names such as Wararka Maanta, Wararka Idaacada, Wareysiyo and Barnaamijyada, and only a small separate section headed News in English. |
| homepage url |
https://baidoamediaco.com/
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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Fetched and confirmed live: the site of Baidoa Media Corporation, the broadcaster that operates Radio Baidoa, carrying Radio Baidoa's own bulletins under headings such as Wararka Radio Baidoa and Warka Subaxnimo Radio Baidoa. The stored zeno.fm address is only a stream host. Note that radiobaidoa.net is not usable: it answers with an nginx 404 page over HTTP and a wrong-host certificate over HTTPS. |
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 |
|---|---|
| those footer entries are custom menu items wired to href="#" | the numbers and mailboxes are readable text only and are not clickable links, so a listener has to copy them out by hand
source |
| the /xayeeysiin advertising page | a trade route rather than a listener one
source |
If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
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: Radio Baidoa 89.5 FM — listed via Radio Browser · https://zeno.fm/radio/raadiyo-baydhabo/