HAITI Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide - Infoasaid

56Director General Radio Lumière – Pastor Varnel JeuneHead of News – Gestel ToussaintTel: +509 2234 0330Email: rlumiere@radiolumiere.orgRadio Métropole 100.1 FM www.metropolehaiti.comRadio Métropole is a popular Port-au-Prince radio station that is aimed mainly at aneducated middle class audience.It has a good reputation for news and current affairs. Its main news programmes arewidely rebroadcast by other radio stations across Haiti.Unlike most Haitian radio stations, Radio Métropole broadcasts mainly in French.Creole only accounts for a quarter of its programme output.The station also broadcasts for five hours a week in English.The DAGMAR media audience survey of November 2010 showed Radio Métropoleto be the 8 th most popular radio station in Port-au-Prince, with a 3% audience share.The station broadcasts news bulletins every 30 minutes and one high profileinterview with a public figure every day.It also broadcasts a lot of contemporary music and talk programmes imported fromabroad.It does not carry phone-in shows.Radio Métropole has a 2,000 watt hill top transmitter in Port-au-Prince. This enablesthe station to be heard as far away as Petit Goâve, 60 km to the west and the touristbeaches of the Côte des Arcadins to the north.56