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Kaya FM was launched in August 1997, and was one of the first frequencies to be approved for private commercial radio in South Africa. The station format is 60% music and 40% talk, thus making it unique to other ICASA approved licences.
On 1 May 1950, the first commercial radio station in South Africa, Springbok Radio, took to the air. [1]: 728 [2] Bilingual in English and Afrikaans, it broadcast from the Johannesburg Centre for 113 and a half hours a week. [3] The service proved so popular with advertisers at its launch that commercial time had been booked well in advance. [4]
Capital Radio 604 changed radio in South Africa forever when it introduced listeners to great uncensored music, polished presenters, uncensored news, and great jingles. Previously, the state run radio stations (no private stations were allowed) were not allowed to tell the real news or play certain songs or music from certain bands.
Radiomonitor is a British music company that tracks the worldwide airplay of songs, with the information given to record labels and radio stations.They have established partnerships with several international companies located in Ireland, Australia and South Africa, and compiled several airplay charts in the United Kingdom in contrast to the Official Charts Company's physical sales-based UK ...
Contemporary hit radio (also known as CHR, contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format that is common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 music charts.
Laka describes kwaai-jazz as a fusion of South African music styles including kwaito, kwela and marabi with jazz to create a more a soulful sound. [6]"In the late 80s and early 90s jazz music was not widely played on radio – or anywhere else – in South Africa for nearly 20 years.
It was the oldest liberation radio station in Africa. [2] Listening to Radio Freedom in Apartheid-era South Africa was a crime carrying a penalty of up to eight years in prison. [3] Though its first formal broadcast was aired in June 1963 [4] [5] the first broadcasts by what was then called Freedom Radio took place in the mid-1950s. The ...
Google Play Music was a music and podcast streaming service and an online music locker operated by Google as part of its Google Play line of services. The service was announced on May 10, 2011; after a six-month, invitation-only beta period, it was publicly launched on November 16, 2011, and shut down in December 2020.