Mass media in Morocco

Mass media in Morocco includes newspapers, radio, television, and Internet.

The first newspaper to be founded in Morocco was the Spanish-language El Eco de Tetuán in 1860. Such publications were not generally available in Moroccan cities until 1908. "Al Maghreb" was the first Arabic newspaper in the country and it was established in 1886^[1] .

The government of Morocco owns many key media outlets, including several major Moroccan radio and television channels, and the Moroccan press agency, Maghreb Agence Press.^[2] Moroccans have access to approximately 2,000 domestic and foreign publications.^[2] Many of the major dailies and weeklies can now be accessed on their own websites. Morocco has 27 AM radio stations,^[2] 25 FM radio stations,^[2] 6 shortwave stations,^[2] and 11 television stations including the channels of the public SNRT, the mixed-ownership (half public-half private) 2M TV which started out in 1989 as the first private terrestrial channel in Morocco. Later, it became a mixed ownership channel as 70% of its capital was bought by the government. and the privately owned Medi1 TV.^{[citation needed]}