Rana FM

Rana FM was a Pashto-language broadcast radio station operating from studios in an undisclosed location in Kingston, Ontario,^[3] feeding transmitters in Kandahar and Kabul, Afghanistan.

Rana FM

Ownership
Owner	Canadian Forces
History
First air date	January 6, 2007 (2007-01-06)-July 2011 (2011-07)[1]
Former frequencies	88.5 MHz FM (Kandahar) 99.9 MHz FM (Kabul)[2]
Links
Website	ranafm.org (now cybersquatted)

History

Launched on January 6, 2007 during the ongoing 2001 Afghan war, the military-run station^[4] hired Afghan-Canadians as its on-air voices, presenting Bollywood and modern Afghan music, news, sports and public affairs programming with a distinct pro-NATO, anti-Taliban slant.^[5][6] Content was targeted at a 15- to 25-year-old demographic and included no commercial advertising.^[3]

The station was available as over-the-air FM radio in Afghanistan, via satellite (Eutelsat 70B, 70.5°E, 11210 MHz, horizontal, DVB-S, 6509 kilobits/second),^[7] and streamed online.^[8] Its signal was delivered to Afghanistan via satellite and fibre-optic links.

As Canada's role in the Afghanistan War had largely ended by 2011,^[9] the station was no longer on the air.

Filmmaker Ariel Nasr's full-length documentary describing Rana FM, "Good Morning Kandahar",^[10] aired on November 11, 2008, on CBC Newsworld^[11][12] and won the National Film Board of Canada Reel Diversity Competition.^[13]

See also

• Radio stations in Afghanistan
• Radio Free Afghanistan
• CFB Kingston