How we checked SRTB Radio Parakou
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
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Description
Radio Parakou is the northern regional service of Benin's state broadcaster, on air from the city of Parakou since 1983 and now run by the Société de Radio et de Télévision du Bénin. It carries news, current affairs, culture and music for the north and part of the centre of the country, on a transmitter network reaching from Savè up to Malanville on the Niger border. Alongside its French output it runs news and a weekly press review in Benin's national languages, which is what many listeners in the region tune in for. It is also carried on Benin's digital terrestrial television as channel 23.
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SRTB, Benin public broadcaster | 2026 |
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Contact route
Radio Parakou's own page links its own Facebook, X, Instagram and YouTube accounts under a "Suivez-nous" heading, all on radioparakousrtb handles distinct from Radio Benin's; for a written or spoken route it falls back to the broadcaster's shared contact page, which carries a working Contact Form 7 form, a switchboard telephone, a footer WhatsApp number and a post box. Said plainly: the social accounts are the station's own, and the form, telephone and WhatsApp are the broadcaster's, the same ones Radio Benin uses
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SRTB | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://srtb.bj/contact/
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SRTB | 2026 |
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Music
Beninese and West African music alongside news, culture and talk
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SRTB, Benin public broadcaster | 2026 |
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Language
French, with news and a weekly press review in Benin's national languages
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SRTB, Benin public broadcaster | 2026 |
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Kind
Talk and news, with studio recordings
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SRTB, Benin public broadcaster | 2026 |
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Where
Parakou, Benin, 102.5 MHz FM, with relays including Savè 91.7, Bassila 92.0, Natitingou 102.5, Bèmbèrèkè 94.0, Nikki 98.5, Banikoara 97.0, Kandi 96.1 and Malanville 103.8
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SRTB, Benin public broadcaster | 2026 |
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Programmes
Journal parlé, the daily 13h news bulletin; 13H Actu Le Mag, the Sunday news magazine; Revue de presse hebdomadaire en langue, the weekly press review in national languages.
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SRTB, Benin public broadcaster | 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 |
https://srtb.bj/radioparakousrtb/
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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No homepage was stored. The station has its own page on the SRTB site, fetched and read: it loads over https with real station content, listing the northern-zone FM frequencies (Parakou 102.5 MHz among them), DTT channel 23, and the station's Journal parle and national-language press review strands. |
| title | ORTB Radio Parakou → SRTB Radio Parakou | same broadcaster and same evidence: srtb.bj brands itself SRTB throughout and names this service Radio Parakou; ORTB is the operator's former name carried in from the directory listing |
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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| your note that Parakou has its own path on srtb.bj | confirmed, and it carries its own social accounts and its own northern-zone frequency list, but no telephone, mailbox or form of its own
source |
| a WhatsApp channel and a staff webmail login in the shared header and footer | a one-way broadcast channel and a staff mail client
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: ORTB Radio Parakou — listed via Radio Browser · https://ortb.bj/radioparakou.html