“The revolution is in the mini-disk,” says Daoud Kuttab.
Fresh after web-cred, we’ve got the enormous pleasure of Kuttab, a journalist and founder of Ammannet (Jordan), as our Berkman luncheon series speaker today. He is talking about running a web- and terrestrial radio operation from Jordan. It’s an extraordinary story. His news operation covers the Jordanian parliament as well as a range of topics relevant to Amman, and makes the broadcast available over the radio (possibly FM soon) as well as internet.
The annual cost of being in business with an FM presence starts with $42,000 for a license, plus $8,000 to the communications ministry, plus other fees. He’s got a full staff of about 15 or 16 people. The total cost of running the enterprise is only a few hundred thousand dollars per year.
He’s considering an ammannet blogs server for listeners. It sounds as though they are tapping into a fast-growing Jordanian community of internet users.
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