List of radio stations in Egypt

Greater Cairo region has the most number of FM stations in Egypt. The broadcasting antenna of FM and terrestrial TV is in Mokattam hills, as they are the most elevated location within Greater Cairo, to make the transmission reaches the widest area possible, however, the signals are weakly received farther than 40 kilometers, which makes transmission weak to the most eastern part of New Cairo, the eastern half of Shorouk City, two-thirds of western 6 October City, all of Madinaty, Badr and New Heliopolis.

A few of the following stations are broadcast on other frequencies in other regions in Egypt.

All stations which broadcast popular songs are mainly Egyptian songs with very few Levantine hits (mostly Lebanese) or other north African.

In the following table, far stations receivable at night that are broadcast on a nearby frequency to a local strong station, are omitted since it is normally impossible to receive on ordinary receivers. Likewise, very weak far stations are omitted. When daylight saving time is applicable to the local time in Egypt, an additional hour is added to the time in UTC.

Foreign radio stations can be received in summer, mainly: Cypriot, Greek, Italian and Israeli radio stations, but reception is unreliable and fades quickly.

As of 2007, there were 6 radio stations.

1. 88 MHz Musical Program (stereo)
2. 88.2 MHz Radio Hits (stereo) (since 2010)
3. 88.7 FM Radio Orient (إذاعة الشرق) (A very conservative radio station and the only fully foreign broadcast on the local FM)
4. 90.1 MHz Koran Station (mono)
5. 92.7 MHz Mega FM (stereo; RDS) (since 2010)
6. 94.3 MHz European Program (stereo)
7. 95.5 MHz Shaabi FM (stereo)
8. 97.6 MHz Specialty Songs (stereo)
9. 101.1 MHz Radio Alexandria (mono)
10. 104.7 MHz General Program (mono)

There used to be local radio stations which were aired in the languages, Armenian, Italian, French, Greek and English in the 1940s.

Since 2009, the government sometimes occasionally broadcasts some radio stations which are only broadcast to Greater Cairo, on the same frequencies used in Greater Cairo. On occasions such as the official vacations in Egypt. The broadcasts can be received by nearby local touristic villages to Marina and very weakly in Alexandria, likewise the radio stations broadcast to Alexandria are received very weakly in and around Marina.

• 88.7 MHz Radio Masr (stereo; RDS) (since 2010)
• 90.9 MHz El Radio FM 90 9 (stereo; RDS) (since February 2012)
• 100.6 MHz Nogoum FM (stereo; RDS)
• 104.2 MHz Nile FM (stereo; RDS)
• 105.3 MHz Nagham FM (stereo) (since 2012)

• 88.6 MHz Radio Misr
• 91.7 MHz El Quran El Karim
• 98.2 MHz El Aghany
• 100 MHz El Gouna Radio ("Lagoon Radio") (stereo) (Italian and English) (privately owned by Orascom)
• 101.7 MHz Al Shabab Wel Riada
• 105.3 MHz El Barnamag El Aam

• Robinson FM - at Robinson hotel[5]

Most if not all of them are already broadcast in Greater Cairo, except South Sinai.

1. 88 MHz ? (mono) – spoken content.
2. 89.4 MHz General (mono)
3. 91.1 MHz Musical (stereo)
4. 92.5 MHz ? (mono) – spoken content.
5. 94.3 MHz ?
6. 95.7 MHz ? (mono) – spoken content.
7. 97.6 MHz ?
8. 99 MHz South Sinai (mono) – spoken content.

1. 92 MHz Koran (mono)
2. 98.5 MHz ? (mono) – spoken content.
3. 103.7 MHz ? (mono) – spoken content.
4. 107.3 MHz European Program (stereo)

1. 89.8 MHz koran station covered Fayoum and Bani Sweif
2. 101.4 MHz northern upper station covered Bani Sweif and Fayoum
3. 94.2 MHz northern upper station covered Minya

• Radio Horytna ("Our Freedom Radio"; private; popular songs, talk shows; based in Cairo; evolved into a podcast)[6]
• TIBA Radio (private; Adult Contemporary and Classic Hits; based in Hurghada)[7]
• Tram Radio (private; underground music; based in Alexandria; now off)[8]
• Radio Banha (public; popular Egyptian songs; based in Banha)[9]
• Hawak Radio (راديو هواك) since 2013 on Tunein;[10] based in Cairo[11]
• RADIO 5:14 (راديو 5:14) internet Christian podcast since 2016 on website radio514.blogspot.com based in Suez, Egypt[12]

International medium wave broadcasting was gradually replaced from 2019 by internet services, e.g online streaming or podcasts, or ceased entirely.

• 639 kHz BBC Arabic and BBC World Service (British radio service)[13] – in Literary Arabic. (the broadcasting antenna is in Cape Greco, Cyprus)
• 1233 kHz Monte Carlo International (French radio service)[14] – in Literary Arabic. (the broadcasting antenna is at Cape Greco. It's very hard to receive the signal away from northernmost Egypt)
• 990 kHz[15] (till 2019) Radio Sawa (American radio service) – news, informational content and popular songs; most spoken content in Literary Arabic. (since March 23, 2002;[1] the broadcasting antenna is in Cape Greco. During the day, the farther from the north, the harder it is to receive the signal; at first it simulcasted on 981 and 1260 kHz, in 2005 it changed the first frequency to 990 kHz, then it abolished the second one in 2008)

In the 1960s, at time of Nasser rule, short wave broadcasting was important for the state. It used to broadcast stations to the Middle East which were of propagandist importance to the Egyptian regime and for propagating for Arab nationalism.