{{short description|Sub language radio station in regions}} {{Infobox radio station | name = Rana FM | logo = | city = Kingston, Ontario | country = CA | branding = | frequency = <!-- {{Frequency|NNN|XHz}} --> | translator = | repeater = | airdate = {{Start date|2007|01|06}}-{{End date|2011|07}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://digitalcommons.ryerson.ca/dissertations/714/ |title="International Radio Broadcasting and Post-Conflict State-Building: the" by David T. Harmes |publisher=Digitalcommons.ryerson.ca |access-date=2014-02-10}}</ref> | format = | language = | power = | erp = | haat = | class = | facility_id = | coordinates = <!-- {{coord|}} --> | callsign_meaning = | former_callsigns = | former_frequencies = {{Frequency|88.5|MHz}} FM (Kandahar)<br/> 99.9 MHz FM (Kabul)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.streamingthe.net/Rana-FM-99.9-FM-Kabul---Light-in-Your-Life/p/17964 |title=Radio Online Rana FM 99.9 FM Kabul - Light in Your Life Live Streaming from Afghanistan |publisher=Streamingthe.net |access-date=2013-12-27}}</ref><!-- use – --> | affiliations = | owner = Canadian Forces | licensee = | sister_stations = | webcast = | website = ranafm.org (now cybersquatted) }} '''Rana FM''' was a Pashto-language broadcast radio station operating from studios in an undisclosed location in Kingston, Ontario,<ref name="kingstoneastnews">{{cite web|url=http://www.kingstoneastnews.ca/2010/07/rana-fm-afghanistan/ |title=RANA FM Afghanistan | Kingston East News |publisher=Kingstoneastnews.ca |access-date=2013-12-27}}</ref> feeding transmitters in Kandahar and Kabul, Afghanistan.
==History== Launched on January 6, 2007 during the ongoing 2001 Afghan war, the military-run station<ref>{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lit6ISgyc54C&pg=PA204 | title = Definitive Encounters: Islam, Muslims, and the West | isbn = 9789675062070 | last1 = Iqbal | first1 = Muzaffar | year = 2008}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-s-radio-kandahar-goes-to-air-1.654396 |title=Canada's Radio Kandahar goes to air |publisher=CBC News |date=2007-01-06 |access-date=2013-12-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7sQWBEQahOEC&pg=PA319 | title = Empire's Ally: Canada and the War in Afghanistan | isbn = 9781442613041 | last1 = Klassen | first1 = Jerome | date = 2013-01-10}}</ref> Content was targeted at a 15- to 25-year-old demographic and included no commercial advertising.<ref name="kingstoneastnews" />
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),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lyngsat.com/radiochannels/af/Rana-FM.html |title=Rana FM |publisher=LyngSat |access-date=2013-12-27}}</ref> and streamed online.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.optiradio.com/radio/RANA-FM |title=RANA FM - 88.5 FM - Kandahār - Listen Online |publisher=Opti Radio |access-date=2013-12-27}}</ref> 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,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-troops-mark-final-combat-rotation-1.938891|title=Canadian troops mark final combat rotation|publisher=CBC.ca|date=2010-11-27}}</ref> the station was no longer on the air.
Filmmaker Ariel Nasr's full-length documentary describing Rana FM, "Good Morning Kandahar",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afghanfilmproject.com/our-team/ariel-nasr |title=Ariel Nasr - Our Team |publisher=afghan film project |access-date=2013-12-27}}</ref> aired on November 11, 2008, on CBC Newsworld<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukings.ca/building-bridges-screen |title=Building bridges on screen | University of King's College |publisher=Ukings.ca |date=2012-12-11 |access-date=2013-12-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/thelens/2008/goodmorningkandahar/ |access-date=December 27, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510145956/http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/thelens/2008/goodmorningkandahar/ |archive-date=May 10, 2013 |title=Good Morning Kandahar}}</ref> and won the National Film Board of Canada Reel Diversity Competition.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/halifax-filmmaker-finds-new-take-on-afghan-war-1.757034 |title=Halifax filmmaker finds new take on Afghan war - Arts & Entertainment - CBC News |publisher=Cbc.ca |access-date=2013-12-27}}</ref>
==See also== * Radio stations in Afghanistan * Radio Free Afghanistan * CFB Kingston
==References== {{Reflist}}
Category:Radio stations in Afghanistan Category:Radio stations established in 2007 Category:2007 establishments in Ontario Category:2011 disestablishments in Ontario Category:Radio stations disestablished in 2011 Category:Defunct mass media in Afghanistan