General Manager of the National Radio to Echorouk: “Algerian authorities will not cancel local radios”

Algiers-General Manager of the National Radio, Toufik Khelladi, refuted the news promoted by some sources, last week end, about the decisions by public authorities to cancel the local radios due to their failure in performing the media tasks, and turned recently to a mouthpiece for local authorities neglecting the daily concerns of citizens.

 Mr. Khelladi told Echorouk, during the opening of the event (a day without cars), held in Annaba (east of Algeria) over the day, that local radios will notice the launch of Tizi Ouzou and Boumerdes radios (east of Algiers), to remain among the important media spaces in Algeria, depending on the major activities and affective results in uniting national visions both in present and future.

“The Youth Radio will be launched beginning of November, and will strengthen the task of national radios in Algeria, currently consisting of 54 channels, as well as accelerating the implementation of programs at the level of work and formation which achieved in 2010 over 22% of the total workers at the national radio”, he added.

In a brief commenting on the new draft law on media and the approval of the cabinet to open audiovisual field for the private sector, he asserted; “We are not afraid at all as far as it drives as further to the desire to improve and develop our professionalism in communication, in light of the new law on audio-visual and defining the powers of authority to determine the settings with the competitive rules of the game so as not to immerse the sector in other problems such as those known in the written press that is still suffering from ambiguity of advertisement, distribution and printing, and the respect of terms  and reference”.