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Jozi FM Stereo - Formerly known as Soweto Buwa Community Radio, Jozi FM broadcasts from Dube, Soweto, targeting listeners aged 16 to 49. Programming is multicultural, half talk and half music.
  • Frequency: 105.8 FM
  • Broadcast area: Soweto, parts of the West Rand up to Carltonville, Lenasia and Meyerton
  • Audience (past seven days): 444 000
  • Language: English
Radio Pretoria - With the slogan Trots Afrikaans (proudly Afrikaans), Radio Pretoria broadcasts from Tshwane through 14 transmitters in towns in Gauteng, Limpopo, Free State, Mpumalanga, North West and KwaZulu-Natal. The station targets Afrikaners, with programming a mix of 70% music and 30% talk.
  • Frequency: Varies - see the Radio Pretoria website
  • Broadcast area: Gauteng, Limpopo, Free State, Mpumalanga, North West Province and KwaZulu Natal.
  • Audience (past seven days): 123 000 – all transmitters
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Offers live internet audio
Soshanguve Community Radio - Broadcast from Soshanguve township, the station targets black listeners aged 16 to 34. Programming is multicultural, half music and half talk.
  • Frequency: 93 FM
  • Broadcast area: Soshanguve, Tshwane, Rosslyn, Mabopane, Mamelode, Atteridgeville, Hammanskraal and Ga-Rankuwa
  • Audience (past seven days): 161 000
  • Language: Tswana
Moretele Community Radio - Moretele broadcasts on from Babelegi with a radius of 72 kilometres, targeting black youth aged 16 to 30. Its wide-ranging format includes education, news, religion, development, music, and youth affairs, with music taking up over half the schedule.
  • Frequency: 106.6 FM
  • Broadcast area: Babelegi, Hammanskraal, Temba, Modimolle and Mabopane
  • Audience (past seven days): 103 000
  • Language: Tswana, Ndebele, Tsonga and English
East Rand Stereo - Broadcast from Springs, Radio East Rand targets white listeners aged 20 to 40. Programming is Christian and made up of 35% talk and 65% music, with traffic reports, weather reports and so on.
  • Frequency: 93.9 FM
  • Broadcast area: Springs, Alberton, Boksburg, Benoni, Brankpan and parts of Kempton Park
  • Audience (past seven days): 55 000
Radio TUKS - Radio Tuks broadcasts from the University of the Pretoria campus, reaching most of the greater Tshwane area. The station targets an Afrikaans-speaking audience aged 16 to 29, reflecting the culture and aspirations of student life, with content 40% talk and 60% music.
  • Frequency: 107.2 FM
  • Broadcast area: Tshwane and surrounds
  • Audience (past seven days): 50 000
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Offers live internet audio
Iscorian FM - IFM broadcasts from steel parastatal company Iscor's complex in Vereeniging, targeting listeners over 25. Programming reflects the aspirations and culture of the workers in the Iscor Steel Refineries and is made up of 25% talk and 75% music and includes features such as health, legal issues, traffic reports and weather reports.
  • Frequency: 102.2 FM
  • Broadcast area: Vereeniging, Vanderbijlpak, Sasolburg, Meyerton, Evaton and parts of Lenasia
  • Audience (past seven days): 45 000
  • Language: English
Radio Rippel - 90.5 FM broadcasts from Weavind Park in Tshwane in a 100km in radius of the capital. The station targets listeners aged 16 to 49, with programming geared to Afrikaners and made up of talk and music in equal measure.
  • Frequency: 90.5 FM
  • Broadcast area: Tshwane
  • Audience (past seven days): 44 000
  • Language: Afrikaans and English
Rainbow FM - Broadcasting south and west of Johannesburg, Rainbow FM is a Christian station with 60% music and 40% local and international news and community events, aimed at all ages.
  • Frequency: 90.7 FM
  • Broadcast area: Roodepoort, Florida, Horison, Discovery, Krugersdorp, Kagiso, Randfontein, Soweto, Eldorado Park, Pimville, Lenasia, Newlands and central Johannesburg.
  • Audience (past seven days): 40 000
  • Language: English
Campus Radio - The station has always been owned by the University of Johannesburg, and is run by students on a voluntary basis. Predominantly English, it includes Afrikaans and several vernacular languages, broadcast from 6am to 6pm to some 40 000 students on campus and beyond. New music takes up 60% of airtime, with the rest cutting-edge features.
  • Frequency: 92.7 FM
  • Broadcast area: Gauteng
  • Audience (past seven days): 40 000
  • Language: English, Afrikaans, African languages
  • Offers live internet audio
Impact Radio - Impact Radio broadcasts from studios in Waterkloof Glen in Tshwane. Programming is Christian, with 20% talk and 80% music.
  • Frequency: 103 FM
  • Broadcast area: Tshwane, parts of the West Rand, North Rand and Cullinan
  • Audience (past seven days): 33 000
  • Language: English
  • Offers live internet audio
Go to the Radio Islam website Radio Islam - Broadcasting from Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, Radio Islam aims to promote the religion of Islam, and to dispel myths about Islam and Muslims in South Africa and around the world.
  • Frequency: 1548 AM (MW)
  • Broadcast area: Gauteng
  • Audience (past seven days): 31 000
  • Language: English
  • Offers live internet audio
Go to the Radio Pulpit website Radio Kansel / Radio Pulpit - For the past 28 years Radio Pulpit has been broadcasting the Gospel to South Africans, it is the only station that broadcasts in all 11 official languages. The station broadcasts from studios in Pretoria on 657 MW, 24 hours per day. Radio Pulpit is the South African's companion in the search for meaning and reaches out a hand of friendship to Christians across the country. Radio TNG - Radio TNG broadcasts from studios in Weavind Park in Tshwane, listeners aged 16 to 39. The multicultural programming is aimed at young black listeners in college and university, and is made up of 40% talk and 60% music.
  • Frequency: 96.2 FM
  • Broadcast area: Pretoria, Rosslyn, Mabopane, Mamelode, Atteridgeville, Hammans Kraal and Ga-Rankuwa.
  • Audience (past seven days): 26 000
  • Language: English
09.6 FM Stereo - This station broadcasts from Vereeniging, targeting an audience aged 20 to 50 with multilingual programming made up of 20% talk - mainly news - and 80% music.
  • Frequency: 90.6 FM
  • Broadcast area: Vereeniging, Sasolburg, Vandebijlpark, Parys, Sebokeng, Sharpeville, Orange Farm, Meyerton, Evaton, Lenasia and Boipatong.
  • Audience (past seven days): 23 000
  • Language: 50% Afrikaans, 40% English and 10% African languages
  • Offers live internet audio
East Wave Radio - Broadcast from studios in Lenasia, the station targets listeners aged 16 to 34. The programming reflects the South African Indian culture in made up of 45% talk and 55% music.
  • Frequency: 92.2 FM
  • Broadcast area: greater Johannesburg metropolitan area, Vereening, Everton, Meyerton.
  • Audience (past seven days): 16 000
  • Language: English
Radio Today - The station broadcasts from Auckland Park in Johannesburg, with easy-listening music and golden oldies aimed at an audience aged over 50. Programming includes news, music, comedy, weather and traffic, made up of 30% talk and 70% music and entertainment.
  • Frequency: 1485 AM (MW)
  • Broadcast area: Johannesburg, Roodepoort, Randburg, Sandton, Edenvale, Alberton, Germiston, Boksburg and Benoni during the day; other provinces also reached at night
  • Audience (past seven days): 14 000
  • Language: English
TUT Stereo - This campus radio station broadcasts six hours a day from the Department of Journalism at Tshwane University of Technology, formerly Technikon Pretoria, and reaching most of Tshwane and surrounds. The station targets mainly English-speaking students, with some Afrikaans and Sepedi, 70% of them black and 30% white. With programming 60% talk and 40% music, TUT Stereo has a four-year license until 2008.
  • Frequency: 93.6 FM
  • Broadcast area: Tshwane and surrounds
  • Audience (past seven days): 1 000
  • Language: English, Afrikaans and Sepedi

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