HAITI Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide - Infoasaid

43Radio Lumière www.radiolumirre.org , a radio station run by the Baptistchurch, It broadcasts on FM and Medium Wave from seven different locationsin Haiti and claims to reach 94% of the country.Vision 2000 www.radiovision2000haiti.net , a Port-au-Prince commercialstation with four satellite FM stations across Haiti.Radio Nationale d’Haïti (RNH) www.radionationalehaiti.org commands arelatively small audience, even though it does reach most parts of the countryon Medium Wave and FM. RNH is very much a mouthpiece for thegovernment of the day, rather than an independent public servicebroadcaster.Minustah FM www.minustahfm.org , the radio station of the UNpeacekeeping force in Haiti. This rents air time on 11 partner radio stationsacross Haiti to achieve nationwide coverage. Despite good nationwidecoverage, Minustah FM does not command a large a regular audience. It iswidely regarded as a mouthpiece for MINUSTAH rather than an independentsource of news and information.Haiti has a land area of just 27,750 km. It is smaller than Belgium and only slightlylarger than the US state of Maryland.However, the mountainous terrain makes it difficult for radio stations to achievebroadcast coverage of the entire country.There are no regular media audience surveys to help advertisers.But in 2010 and 2011 the Port-au-Prince market research agency DAGMARwww.dagmarht.com undertook several surveys of Haitian media audiences on behalfof USAID and the US Office of Transitional Initiatives (OTI)>43