South African Radio station in London

Posted on May 29, 2006

Yes – Radio as we know it is changing as more and more online radio stations fill up the internet airwaves. Did you know that there are approximately 1.3million South Africans living in England? Well apparently there are! So some clever guys decided that all the homesick South Africans needed to be able to listen to South African music and ne…
ws broadcast in the UK by Uk dwellers. Obviously they can listen to 5fm or YFM and even SAFM through streaming, but there was clearly a need to have a voice and platform for this huge community.

The station has been broadcasting for a month and chose 24 DJ’s from about 500 that applied for the job – we’re glad to see a diverse representation and hope this continues.

They are broadcasting from two frequencies:
Modem users in UK – 32kb/s
BroadBand users – 96kb/s

Click here to go to the site and learn all about it … please have a listen – we’d love to know what you think!