Television in the Sultanate of Oman, including broadcast journalism, began in 1974 and largely focused on the capital city of Muscat.
[4] In 2009, five years after the royal decree, the first private television station began, called Majan TV.
In 2004, two Omani intellectuals called the government reforms a way to improve the image of Oman across the globe, on a program on the Iranian TV channel Al-Alam.
[8] The three were detained after being linked to an article on July 26 of that year, in which al-Maamari published an article accusing unnamed Omani officials of influencing the Chief Magistrate of the Supreme Court at the Ministry of Justice, Ishaq Bin Ahmed Al Bousaidi, in a case involving an inheritance dispute.
Soon after, the website URL which originally linked to Azamn's homepage was unavailable, and instead redirected to pictures of the three arrested journalists.
These specific plans never came to fruition, limiting the scope of radio in Oman to a single Land Rover used to broadcast important alerts from the city of Muttrah.
Listeners have access to a variety of programs broadcast in both Arabic and English, ranging from contemporary musical hits to readings of the Quran.
[12] Broadcast journalism is another prevalent force over the airwaves, with a 2017 survey reporting that 29.8 percent of journalists sampled work in radio.