ATTN: Business Editor/ Internet Editor/ Entertainment Editor	FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Saturday, September 16, 2000
Radio One and Maktoob launch First Arabic Internet Radio Station Maktoob.com users can now listen to a top radio station online   Imagine listening to your favorite Arabic tunes live, on the web, from the number one Arabic site. It has now become a reality. A strategic alliance has been announced between Radio One Lebanon, the very popular radio station in Lebanon, and the leading Arab online community, www.maktoob.com. The aim is to introduce the very first Arabic Internet radio station, which will broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! The joint venture will be called Maktoob Radio One, and is another pioneering example of Maktoob’s commitment and role as a trend setter in the Arabic world Internet industry. “Maktoob Radio One fits into the company’s overall vision to provide comprehensive services to Maktoob users”, says Samih Toukan, Managing director at Maktoob, adding that, “we are proud to be delivering Internet radio with such a prestigious partner as Radio One.” Maktoob Radio One will be another valuable service to compliment the vast array available to users of the number one Arabic/English email website, which today boasts some half a million Arab users all over the world. Commenting on the recent strategic alliance, Mr. Raymond Gaspar, CEO of Radio One said that Maktoob was chosen as Radio One’s partner for this exciting initiative “because of their expertise in serving the largest Arab community on line and in keeping with our intention to reach out to the biggest number of Arab users over the Internet”. “Breaking into this new, brave frontier of broadcasting is exciting and opens up enormous possibilities for radio stations to cross borders. This is the age of truly global radio stations, and Radio One will be at the forefront of this revolution,” added Mr. Gaspar. The lightening fast expansion of Internet use in the Arab World means that it will become the largest audience pool available, and could even overtake other media one day as the main source of entertainment for Arabs. Bold initiatives, like Maktoob Radio One, are laying the foundations for the Arab web entertainment industry.   Maktoob Radio One is set to become the leading Internet radio destination for Arab communities on the Internet, seeking to attract them with its bi-lingual programming to be split into 70% Arabic music and 30% English. To listen to the sounds of Maktoob Radio One, please visit http://www.maktoob.com     For more details, please contact   Marwan Ibrahim Maktoob.com, Inc Tel: +962-6-4613194; Fax: +962-6-4613194 Email: marwan@maktoob.com Or Najy Cherabieh Radio One Tel: +961-4-872000; Fax: +961-4-972818 Email: marwan@maktoob.com
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