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- Since it was established,
WAM has provided coverage of around 80-90% of the official and public news in
the UAE.
- WAM also
provides video and photographic coverage, which is distributed to newspapers and
TV stations.
- WAM covers the activities
of official UAE delegations abroad.
- WAM has the facility to
send pictures to subscribers locally and internationally.
- WAM offers its news and
photographic services to all newspapers, to media departments, and to other
government offices in the country and to UAE embassies around the world. The
total number of recipientsof WAM services are 230.
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The number of stories transmitted
by WAM from year 1995 to 2009:
| Year |
No. of stories |
| 1995 |
30682 |
| 1996 |
31058 |
| 1997 |
30517 |
| 1998 |
37305 |
| 1999 |
36452 |
| 2000 |
36080 |
| 2001 |
36637 |
| 2002 |
43764 |
| 2003 |
40603 |
| 2004 |
36709 |
| 2005 |
34215 |
| 2006 |
32588 |
| 2007 |
38027 |
| 2008 |
41409 |
| 2009 |
43193 |
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