100 Years of Radio in Africa
Radio is thriving across Africa. Exact figures are difficult to come by because audience research differs across countries. But studies estimate radio listenership to be between 60% and 80% of the continent’s 1.4 billion population.
100 years of radio in South Africa – and still going strong
Monday, 18 December 2023 marks 100 years since radio was introduced in South Africa, with the first experimental broadcast going out from Railway Headquarters in Johannesburg on 18 December 1923.
Recent Radio Developments in Europe and Africa
Recent radio news in four different countries, two in Europe and two in Africa, indicate a positive direction for mediumwave and shortwave broadcasting, rather than a negative.
BNBS Leopoldville, Belgian Congo
Rare station id & booklet from station OTC of the Belgian National Broadcasting Service transmitting from Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo c1953
The incredible reach of the Eswatini transmitter
Less than 2 percent of the Yao population are Christian. Abdi and Shafiq are just two of the many Yao Christians and population that TWR reaches from the Eswatini Transmitter.
LM Radio Museum and Sound Archive
In our travels around the internet we came across the website of the LM Radio Museium and Sound Archive which records the history of Radio…
Looking Back: New radio service goes on air
The Herald, 1 November 1960 NEW broadcasting transmitters which will enable the African service of the Federal Broadcasting Corporation to “go regional” come into operation…
Tristan da Cunha – ZOE Radio Tristan 3290 kHz – A rare QSL from the world’s most remote inhabited archipelago.
Tristan da Cunha, the main island of the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, is situated in the south Atlantic Ocean, 2 805 km…
Covid-19: Why community radio is needed now
Opinion: By Stanley Tsarwe Given present challenges posed by Covid-19, there are plenty of reasons to argue for the establishment of community radio stations from…
Radio as a Form of Struggle
Scenes from late colonial Angola Published: December 3, 2019 One August night in 1967 in the village of Mungo in central Angola, the local colonial…
Sentech Shuts Meyerton Shortwave Site
Planned closure of the South African station comes after years of financial losses By Hans JohnsonRadioWorldJuly 2019 MEYERTON, South Africa — South Africa-based public broadcast…
Managing SW Broadcasts From Ascension Island
The remote Atlantic Relay Station transmits critical radio broadcasts to millions in Africa and beyond
When Radio Voice of the Gospel became Radio Voice of Revolutionary Ethiopia
Very early in the morning on 12 March 1977 two fullly armed soldiers knocked brutally at the doors of the RVOG staff house and led us to the radio station, where we were informed that the Provisional Military Government of Ethiopia had nationalised RVOG. The buildings and equipment were confiscated for the services of what was to become Radio Voice of Revolutionary Ethiopia.
Radio Veritas Reaches South African AM Dial
Nautel & Radio Veritas Bring the Good News Radio Veritas is no stranger to the South African broadcast landscape. Having started its operations in 1999,…
Radio Pretoria, South Africa
Radio Pretoria is a community radio station broadcasting from the capitol of South Africa. The station operates a
network consisting of 10 transmitters. On the 19th of September 2012, the same day that Radio Pretoria turned 19
years old, Vaughan Taylor from Taylor Engineering installed a Nautel VS2.5 FM transmitter at their ‘Kleinfontein’
site close to Pretoria.
PiliPili FM Mambo Moto Moto
The story of PiliPili began about a year back when the PiliPili media board directors sought a systems integration company to set up their proposed studios and transmission facilities in the port town of Mombasa, Kenya. The search led to the appointment of Frame x Frame Productions – a Nairobi based audio Systems Integration company as system contractors one chilly June morning in 2011 and the wheels of the project began to grind in earnest… resulting in a big switch on to PILIPILI FM 99.5 in Mombasa and 92.5 in Malindi in early March 2012. Both went on air with Nautel transmitter units from the VS Series, a 2.5 kW for Mombasa and a 1.0 kW for Malindi…both feeding Shively Antenna model 6812B HP Systems.
Mix FM Midrand, South Africa
Mix 93.8 FM is a licensed community radio station broadcasting from Midrand, South Africa, serving the local area and north-western parts of Johannesburg. In an effort to minimize costs and keep things simple, the station’s transmitter is co-located at the studio premises.
Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Africa SW Radio
Share your own memories of African Radio kHz Call/Brand Country Location SW 3205 FIQA Radio Tananarive Madagascar Tananarive 3251 Radio Dar es Salaam Tanganyika…
Retro Radio Dial: 1953 Africa AM Radio
Share your own memories of African Radio kHz Call/Brand Country Location AM 548 SABC Springbok Radio Union of South Africa Johannesburg W 557 SABC…
BBC Radio Station On Board Ship?
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