5FM has announced their lineup changes for 2021, which includes a brand-new breakfast show, effective 1 April 2021...
Radio has always proved to be a medium that adapts easily to crisis situations, and it has not been more evident than in the past year...
Boni Mchunu 31 Mar 2021
The thrill of winning isn't limited to a listener experience. Algoa FM is helping its advertisers to craft effective competition-based campaigns that deliver results and grow market share...
Issued by Algoa FM 14 Dec 2020
With the Eastern Cape being the current Covid-19 epicentre, Algoa FM is using the power of radio and digital platforms to educate and warn its audience about the disease...
Issued by Algoa FM 25 Nov 2020
KFM has partnered with Kenings Car, Van and Truck Hire for Bizboost - the popular small business support feature on The Flash Drive with Carl Wastie...
Issued by Primedia Broadcasting 14 Oct 2020
Kfm's Sherlin Barends talks to us about being back on air after she revealed last week that she had to take a break to deal with mental health issues...
Juanita Pienaar 21 Aug 2020
Kagiso Media Radio, together with its media sales house Mediamark, have announced that it has selected AdsWizz for the delivery of its digital audio advertising products...
Issued by East Coast Radio 10 Jul 2020
Smile 90.4FM and Brimstone Investment Corporation have partnered, with the aim of distributing one million facemasks to organisations and groups in and around Cape Town, who need them...
Issued by Smile 90.4FM 29 Jun 2020
Hot 91.9FM's new online buying platform, Lock 'n Load, has been tailormade for the exclusive benefit of small businesses that have reopened or are reopening as the lockdown eases and need their brand to be top of mind now...
Issued by Hot 91.9FM 20 May 2020
Caldine Wyngaard shares a refreshing and youthful perspective on the topic of radio, suggesting that radio stations should focus on constantly developing each generation of radio...
Juanita Pienaar 23 Apr 2020
![[Radio & Podcasts] Evolving to stay in tune](https://biz-file.com/c/2004/549084-120x120.jpg?2)
With the Radio Awards 2020 taking place later this week, Jessica Tennant interviews Taryn Westoby, head of Arena Events, who has managed the Awards since their inception in 2010, on the state of radio particularly at this time...
Jessica Tennant 14 Apr 2020
As South Africa passes the halfway mark of the current lockdown period our Mother City-based station, CapeTalk, has intensified efforts to make sure we are providing you with the most relevant, practical and important information related to Covid-19...
Tessa van Staden, Issued by Primedia Broadcasting 7 Apr 2020
Jon Savage believes integrated content is the most powerful space for both radio stations, audiences and brands because it is truly organic...
Juanita Pienaar 6 Apr 2020
Increasing clutter and advertising noise is making radio a more important element in the communication mix than ever before, according to New Zealand marketing specialist Roy Hawker...
Issued by Algoa FM 18 Sep 2019
Algoa FM morning show anchor Daron Mann will be broadcasting from London for a week in order to share with the listeners some of the latest developments in conservation and care of the environment...
Issued by Algoa FM 13 May 2019
Self-confessed "new convert" to animal rights and multi award-winning Algoa FM breakfast show presenter Daron Mann, used the power of radio combined with social media to highlight the plight of animals kept in the East London Zoo...
Issued by Algoa FM 4 Mar 2019
Smile 90.4FM, created to put smiles on the faces of the people of the Mother City, is deliberately carrying it through to the most time-worn of radio's elements, the news product...
Clive Ridgway, Issued by Smile 90.4FM 15 Mar 2018
To end off its recent Winter Wish programme, the Smile 90.4FM team went to meet with the children of The Learning Vine Tutor Centre, delivering boxes of stationery and toys to the value of R10,000...
Sindy Peters 15 Jul 2017
icandi CQ recently conceptualised and implemented an innovative internal communication campaign for Investec Private Banking to launch Investec's #MoreThanData marketing campaign, for young professionals, to staff...
Issued by icandi CQ 24 Mar 2017
More and more stations, advertisers, strategists and creatives are seeing the increased value of 'tuning in' to who their audience really is...
Zamathango Thango, Issued by United Stations 1 Jun 2016
East Coast Radio, Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal and Tourism KwaZulu-Natal have once again joined forces for Connecting Africa - an initiative aimed at driving African, and South African, trade and tourism to KwaZulu-Natal...
Issued by East Coast Radio 9 May 2016
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Tune in to the Biz Takeouts Marketing & Media radio show, 6 August 2015, from 9-10am, as show host Warren Harding chats to Gordon Laws, Louis Raubenheimer and John Bowles...
Revitalised SoccerZone, the action-packed review show of live soccer matches, is back on SABC1 on Mondays live, at 9pm and repeats on Tuesdays at noon...
Jacaranda FM and Mediamark will be hosting the annual BrandXpand initiative targeted at small to medium size businesses with the aim to broaden their understanding into the use of radio and the return on investment it offers...
I predict that there is absolutely, positively, no question whatsoever that 2015 will be followed immediately by 2016. This will continue for precisely 12 months. With my tongue firmly in cheek, here's my take on 2015...
History was created on Sunday, 13 July, when more than 17,000 runners participated in the second successful 'Kaya FM 67km Relay for Mandela Day' creating the biggest corporate relay ever...
Issued by KAYA 959 22 Jul 2014
Algoa FM presenters will be out and about investing 67 minutes for a charity in their broadcast area to mark Mandela Day...
Issued by Algoa FM 14 Jul 2014
Grade 11 and 12 learners from Nelson Mandela Bay and Buffalo City will be taking over the airwaves on Algoa FM on Monday, June 16.
Issued by Algoa FM 13 Jun 2014
![[2014 trends] The rise of radio](https://biz-file.com/c/1401/172760-120x120.jpg)
One of the most significant developments that is set to take place within the South African media and marketing sector this year is the launch of radio's new trade positioning.
Matona Sakupwanya 31 Jan 2014
WASHINGTON, DC, US: The Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has announced that executives from State Farm and OMD will participate in a Q&A at the 2013 Radio Show Advertiser Luncheon.
LONDON, UK: D&AD is providing ambitious creative students with the ultimate platform to launch their careers in design or advertising. The annual D&AD Student Awards are now open for entry, offering a range of real briefs set by clients from some of the world's top brands.
Three journalists from Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Ghana were, on Wednesday, 17 October 2012, recognised for their high quality programs that contribute to peace in Africa. The competition was organised by Search for Common Ground's Radio for Peacebuilding Africa Project (RPBA).
Caesar Abangirah 19 Oct 2012
Matona Sakupwanya has been appointed as the new GM at the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB). With her background in the marketing, media and ad industries, most recently as GM of Mallworx, a mall media company, her 18-year career spans radio sales management experience plus station management at South African commercial radio station Metro FM.
(TV)5, the television face of radio station 5FM, will launch on SABC3 on Friday, 4 February 2011, at 7.30pm. The show will be broadcast for 26 weeks in its first season.
A nationwide research conducted by Louis Itumeleng Seeco, of Brand Pilgrimage, has shown that the success and sustainability of a brand is somehow linked to the marketers' comprehensive knowledge of consumers' cultural identity. The 'shocking' findings of Seeco's consumer insights journey, which took him as far as rural homes and remote areas, were released this week in Auckland Park, Johannesburg.
Issa Sikiti da Silva 3 Sep 2010
Often upstaged by TV and print, which 'unfairly' get the biggest chunk of adspend, radio continues its prophetic journey regardless but confident that it holds the "overwhelming" power to move mountains and help solve problems. Delegates who attended the inaugural 2010 Radioworks conference yesterday, Tuesday, 18 May 2010, at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, discovered the secret of that power.
Issa Sikiti da Silva 19 May 2010
A crowd of over 20 000 eager shoppers started queuing from around two in the morning for the opening of a new Metro Cash and Carry store in Port Elizabeth after the event was widely advertised on Algoa FM.
Issued by Algoa FM 30 Mar 2010
Welcome Nzimande, after 32 years with the SABC, is taking early retirement at the end of March 2010 from his position as Ukhozi fm station manager. His career began with Radio Zulu, which today is Ukhozi Fm, in 1978 and he has held a number of positions including 10 years as a TV presenter co-anchoring the popular traditional music show, Ezodumo.
The power of radio is being used to help drive home the water crisis facing Nelson Mandela Bay and other areas of the Eastern Cape. Algoa FM presenter Charlton Tobias took to the air as part of a multimedia campaign which included live crossings from the dams and the use of Algoa FM's website and print.
Issued by Algoa FM 21 Jan 2010
In light of the current economic climate and countless personal challenges that South Africans are faced with on a moral, social and personal level in their lives, East Coast Radio has crossed the threshold of traditional radio promotions to bring their listeners something that is close to home and even closer to their hearts.
Issued by East Coast Radio 4 Mar 2009
Despite the advance of different technologies and the rise of other media, research shows that the future of radio remains bright and radio will continue to serve the listeners on a greater scale and in multiple platforms for a long time to come. This was revealed at the RadMark Radio Sound Safari currently taking place at the Pilanesberg Game Reserve in the North West Province.
Issa Sikiti da Silva 13 Sep 2007
LONDON: David Guerrero, chairman and chief creative officer, BBDO Guerrero Ortega, The Philippines, has been appointed as this year's Radio Lions Jury President, the organisers of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival announced earlier this week. Guerrero is the first Cannes Lions jury president from South East Asia.
As the digital revolution continues to challenge the economic environment, media companies, radio in particular, have no choice but to comply with the new technological demands and perhaps rethink their strategies in order to stay competitive and relevant. This emerged at the 2006 Africa Media and Broadcasting Congress held last week in Sandton.
Issa Sikiti da Silva 30 Oct 2006
In every society there is a need for someone to be the social conscience, to stand up for what is right, to speak out against what is wrong and to fight for the poor and oppressed. When it comes to getting people to find their humanity and empathy for those less fortunate and to dig deeply into their pockets to help, there is no more powerful medium than radio.
The Small Enterprise Development Agency (seda), in partnership with SABC Education, has launched Vuk'Uzenzele on radio. Vuk'Uzenzele provides information for entrepreneurs about how to start and grow their own businesses.
Jacaranda 94.2 has started a new programming initiative to assist needy persons in the station's broadcast footprint. Jacaranda 94.2 marketing manager Niki Rakgoadi believes Jacaranda 94.2's Good Morning Angels, broadcast every Wednesday, is a platform for the station to build and sustain meaningful relationships with listeners.