Jawhara FM

What is Jawhara FM?

Jawhara FM (إذاعة جوهرة أف.أم) is a private radio station. HAICA, the audiovisual regulator, lists it among the sixteen private radio stations on its register page.^[1]

HAICA's page for the station gives its company as “شركة الجوهرة للإعلام والاتصال”, whose name translates as Jawhara Media and Communication Company, and its broadcasting centre as “مدينة سوسة”, the city of Sousse. It gives the station's contact address on the domain jawharafm.net and lists its frequencies: 102.5 FM for Greater Tunis, the centre and the Sousse coast, and 89.4, 104.4 and 107.3 FM for other regions.^[2]

HAICA's page names the company but not its shareholders, and no shareholder register was retrieved, so no ownership statement is made here. The station's own site returned an access error and could not be read.

What does Jawhara FM cover?

HAICA gives the station's broadcasting area as “مناطق ولايات سوسة والمنستير والمهدية والقيروان وتونس الكبرى وصفاقس وزغوان”, the governorates of Sousse, Monastir, Mahdia, Kairouan, Greater Tunis, Sfax and Zaghouan.^[2] Sousse, the station's broadcasting centre, was one of the host cities of the 2005 IHF Men's World Championship, as were Rades, Tunis and Sfax.^[6]

Pros de la Com, reporting SIGMA Conseil's June 2025 figures, grouped Jawhara FM with Zitouna FM as stations “qui confirment leur ancrage régional et communautaire”, which confirm their regional and community roots; that is the trade title's description.^[3]

Because the station's own site could not be read, no sport programme, sports section or broadcast-rights holding is documented here, and no statement is made about which sports it covers.

How large is Jawhara FM's audience?

Radio audiences in Tunisia are surveyed by SIGMA Conseil, which describes its radio measurement as “enquêtes quotidiennes sur l'écoute de la veille auprès des individus représentant les différentes classes d'âge”, daily surveys of the previous day's listening, run over four weeks a month across the national territory.^[8] Its own reports of the figures were not retrieved, so the figures here are as the trade press reported them.

June 2025. Pros de la Com reported on 9 July 2025, from SIGMA Conseil figures for June 2025: “Derrière, on retrouve Zitouna FM (5%) et Jawhara FM (4%), qui confirment leur ancrage régional et communautaire.” The same article gives Mosaïque FM a daily reach of 12.6 per cent; it does not define the measure behind the 4 per cent figure separately.^[3]

2014 report. Agence Ecofin reported on 6 January 2014, from Sigma Conseil, that the stations following Mosaïque FM included “Jawhara Fm (8,1% sur le pays et 39,3% sur le Centre Est)”, that is, 8.1 per cent nationally and 39.3 per cent in the Centre-East region.^[4]

The two readings were published eleven years apart and are reported by different titles; they are not presented here as a trend. No audited traffic figure for jawharafm.net was retrieved.

Since when has Jawhara FM existed?

No founding or first-broadcast date for the station was retrieved: HAICA's station page carries no date field, and the station's own site could not be read.^[2]

The earliest dated record of the station among the sources retrieved is Agence Ecofin's report of 6 January 2014 on Sigma Conseil's figures.^[4] The Media Ownership Monitor for Tunisia, published in 2016 by Reporters Without Borders and Al Khatt, lists Jawhara FM among the fourteen radio stations it analysed.^[5]

Why does Jawhara FM matter in Tunisia's sport?

It is a private station broadcasting from Sousse, for which HAICA gives a broadcasting area of seven governorates, and in SIGMA Conseil's June 2025 figures, as reported, it was one of five stations named in a top group that the article describes as concentrating the radio audience.^[2][3] Pros de la Com wrote: “Le Top 5 révèle une forte concentration de l'audience autour de cinq stations seulement”.^[3]

Reporters Without Borders ranked Tunisia 137th of 180 in its 2026 index. RSF's entry opens its account of the media landscape: “The media landscape has grown more diverse since the 2011 revolution. But the economic crisis has undermined the independence of many newsrooms, which are subject to political and economic interests.” It describes the economic context of the country's media: “The media depends on private sector advertisers, including some who have shares in the media and ties with political figures — a situation that undermines editorial independence.” The RSF entry that was read does not name Jawhara FM. RSF also writes: “The deterioration of the political environment continues with Decree-Law 54 of September 2022, which is meant to combat "fake news" but poses a new major threat to press freedom.”^[7]