How we checked Raya 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 3 things about this entry. We also found 6 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
Raya FM is a Palestinian station broadcasting in Arabic from Al Bireh, next door to Ramallah, and it has been on air since 2007 as the first arm of Raya for Media and Publishing. Its signal covers the north, the centre, the south, and Jericho and the Jordan Valley on five listed frequencies, and it streams from its own site as well. The schedule is unusually wide for a station that sells itself on hits: a breakfast show, a one o'clock news hour, a press review, economics, health, sport, citizenship, religion, a police phone-in and a strand built on the testimony of survivors. It leans hard on talk with the listener inside it, and it publishes two telephone numbers for nothing but taking part in the programmes. Its reporters are spread across every governorate.
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شبكة راية الإعلامية (Raya Media Network) | 2026 |
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Artists
none named by the station as what it plays
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شبكة راية الإعلامية (Raya Media Network) | 2026 |
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Contact route
Two lines published specifically for taking part in the programmes, on 02 242 1222 and 02 242 1223; a public relations telephone on 02 242 0973 and mobile on 0598 944419; and a postal address at Al Bireh, Al Balou, beside the City Inn hotel, Ramallah. Its contact page serves this content under an HTTP 404 status, which is a server quirk rather than a dead page.
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شبكة راية الإعلامية (Raya Media Network) | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://www.raya.ps/contact-us
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شبكة راية الإعلامية (Raya Media Network) | 2026 |
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Era
not stated
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شبكة راية الإعلامية (Raya Media Network) | 2026 |
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Music
News, talk and hit music
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شبكة راية الإعلامية (Raya Media Network) | 2026 |
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Language
Arabic
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شبكة راية الإعلامية (Raya Media Network) | 2026 |
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Kind
Talk, news bulletins, phone-ins and music
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شبكة راية الإعلامية (Raya Media Network) | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
The station holds a Guinness world record for the longest radio talk, 50 unbroken hours presented by Talat Alawi in 2014.
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شبكة راية الإعلامية (Raya Media Network) | 2026 |
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Where
Al Bireh (Al Balou), Ramallah, Palestine; FM 96.4 northern Palestine, FM 98.3 central Palestine, FM 98.3 Jenin and Hebron, FM 96.8 southern Palestine, FM 96.8 Jericho and the Jordan Valley
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شبكة راية الإعلامية (Raya Media Network) | 2026 |
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On air
طلعت علوي (Talat Alawi), the broadcaster the station names as presenter of its 50 hour radio talk
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شبكة راية الإعلامية (Raya Media Network) | 2026 |
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Programmes
أحلى صباح (Best Morning); الساعة الواحدة الاخبارية (One O'Clock News); مع الناس (With the People); اوراق الصحافة (Press Papers); ناجون من الإبادة; نبض الاقتصاد; صحتك بتهمنا; راية رياضة; الشرطة بخدمتك; ضيف الراية; ضد الصمت; حصاد الراية
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شبكة راية الإعلامية (Raya Media Network) | 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 |
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| homepage url |
cleared
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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radiostream.novawap.com is a streaming host's own domain, not the station's site: the page never mentions Raya FM anywhere. A listener sent there gets a player on somebody else's platform rather than a station, which is the same reason Zeno.fm and laut.fm addresses are not accepted as homepages here. Cleared rather than replaced because no site of the station's own was established. |
| homepage url |
https://www.raya.ps/
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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raya.fm 301-redirects to https://www.raya.ps/, whose own About text says Raya for Media and Publishing started in Palestine in 2007 and lists 'إذاعة راية FM' as its first division, streaming at www.raya.ps/live. The site carries the station's frequency block, its programme index at /raya-programs, and its contact page. Fetched and confirmed; not a directory. |
| language code |
ar
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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The whole site, its 27 named radio programmes (أحلى صباح, الساعة الواحدة الاخبارية, مع الناس and the rest) and its About and contact text are in Arabic, and the station describes itself as a local station addressing all Palestinians. Arabic is the broadcast language. |
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 |
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| a Gaza frequency | the current frequency list, which appears identically on the site's own sidebar and at the foot of its programmes page, has five entries and no Gaza entry. Only an older paragraph inside the same About text says the south and the Gaza Strip on 96.8.
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| Jericho on 96.4 | that same older paragraph gives 96.4 for Jericho and the Jordan Valley, and counts four waves, while the current list gives 96.8 and counts five. The current list was used and the conflict recorded rather than quietly resolved.
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| more than five million listeners | a reach claim in the station's own promotional About text with nothing behind it.
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| presenters and programmes of Raya Mix, Raya TV and Mediana | Raya for Media and Publishing runs all three alongside the radio, and none of their people can be attributed to Raya FM.
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| the frequency set given by the directories, which adds 98.3 for northern Palestine and a Gaza Strip entry | the station's own current list was written instead, which is shorter.
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| [email protected] and [email protected] | email addresses are the detail we keep off the page.
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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: Raya FM — listed via Radio Browser · https://radiostream.novawap.com/