The SABC's national radio network comprises 18 radio stations. Fifteen of these are dedicated specifically to public service broadcasting and include 11 full spectrum stations, one in each of the official languages of South Africa, a cultural service for the Indian community broadcasting in English, a regional community station broadcasting in isiXhosa and English and a Community station broadcasting in the !Xu and Khwe languages of the Khoisan people of the Northern Cape. The SABC boasts three stations in its commercial portfolio. They are 5fm, MetroFM and Good Hope FM.
5FM Music
5FM is a national contemporary hit radio station with a past 7-day audience of 1.4 million, 20-30 year old cosmopolitan South Africans. It plays a mix of hit music across all genres including pop, RandB, hip-hop, kwaito, house and rock. The irreverent but stylish brand personality is augmented by a line-up of on-air talent like no other in South Africa and is the primary source of global music trends for a nation of cool and trendy young adults. 5FM, where new music is first!
Channel Africa
Channel Africa broadcast live on three platforms; Shortwave, Satellite, and Internet. Its broadcasts are in Chinyanja, Silozi, Kiswahili, English, French and Portuguese. The Satellite broadcast is via PAS 10 and is accessible through SENTECH's vivid decoders.
Good Hope FM
Good Hope FM is Cape Town’s leading music focused interactive lifestyle radio station, whose contemporary hit radio format provides a music mix of R&B, pop, ballads, contemporary dance and jazz and old school. The Good Hope FM footprint covers metropolitan Cape Town, with a target audience of LSM 6-9, 22-32 year olds.
Ikwekwezi FM
Ikwekwezi FM is the only isiNdebele station in the country. The radio station has been positioned to improve the lives of its listeners by keeping them in touch with current issues while catering for the needs and tastes of the Ndebele people. Ikwekwezi FM targets 25-49 year-olds in LSM 4-8 and has an average of 916 000 listeners per day.
Lesedi FM
Lesedi FM is the biggest seSotho station in SA. The station strives to reconcile traditional values with the freedom to express cultural roots whilst fusing these into the modern world. Lesedi’s largest listenership is in the Free State. The station offers news, information, talk, drama and reflects the lifestyle of its listeners.
Ligwalagwala FM
Ligwalagwala FM is an upbeat radio station that speaks to young, aspirational, upwardly mobile black people living in Mpumalanga understanding isiSwati. Its listeners are progressive and brand-conscious.
Lotus FM
Lotus FM caters for the needs of the progressive South African Indian community.
It combines a mix of Indian music, news, current affairs, interviews and entertainment. Lotus FM targets South African Indians between the ages of 25-34 (core) and 35-49 (secondary) in the LSM 7-10 segment. The station has an average daily audience of 319 000.
Metro FM
METRO FM is an iconic brand and the largest commercial radio station in South Africa, attracting established, empowered, influential and upwardly-mobile urban thought leaders.
Motsweding FM
Motsweding FM broadcasts to Setswana-speaking audiences within its footprint. It offers a highly interactive environment with its listeners, providing a perfect mix of news, music, current affairs, talk shows, education, sport, weather and traffic.
Munghana Lonene FM
Munghana Lonene FM has an average of 925 000 listeners per day and broadcasts in xiTsonga The station has been positioned to reach audiences within the LSM 4-8, 25-49 year-old market living in Metropolitan and rural African communities. The programme mix is to “edutain”, which combines an element of education with an attitude of entertainment. The station format offers an equal split between music and talk.
Phalaphala FM
Phalaphala FM talks to young aspirational and upwardly mobile black people living mainly in the Northern Province and broadcasts in Tshivenda. It is mostly a music station with a small degree of talk: 80% of the music being South African, with a fair amount of R&B and Hip-Hop.
Radio 2000
Radio 2000 is a station that is focused on the upliftment of the community and is driven by our mandate to help make a difference in South Africa by building relationships between all cultures.
RSG
RSG targets the modern, progressive Afrikaans-speaking community regardless of colour and race. It seeks to attract forward-thinking Afrikaans-speaking people between the ages of 25 and 49 years from the upper LSM’s (7-10). The station has an average of 1.135 million listeners per day. RSG, as a PBS station, aims to inform and entertain. The content strategy is therefore to offer a full-spectrum (alles in een - sonder grense) Afrikaans radio station including news, current affairs, sport, lifestyle, education and music.
SAfm
The SABC's national English language public radio station with its headquarters at Radio Park, Auckland Park, Johannesburg. It is almost 71 years-old, the same age of its 'owner'. It was first known as the "A Programme", becoming the English Service when the Afrikaans Service came into being a year later. In 1985 it changed its name again to Radio South Africa and, ten years later, to SAfm. SAfm draws its audience from LSM's 7-10. The station has also actively sought a 'diverse' audience (currently 61% black vs 39% white).
Thobela FM
Thobela FM is a full-spectrum Sepedi radio station and has an average of 2.097 million listeners per day. The station’s core target market fits into the 25-49 year age group in LSM 4-8. Thobela FM targets listeners that look to the radio for music, information, entertainment and education. It broadcasts to Gauteng, Limpopo Province and Mpumalanga.
tru fm
tru fm is the gateway to regional consumers in the Eastern Cape and broadcasts in English and isiXhosa. The station has an average of 381 000 listeners per day. The station speaks to today’s youth and tomorrow’s adults aged 16-34 who fall into LSM 4-8. It speaks to economically active black urban and township young adults who are interested in health, fitness and improving their appearance and will spend lots of money doing it.
Ukhozi FM
Ukhozi FM is the second biggest radio station in the world and the largest radio station in Africa! Ukhozi FM is a full-spectrum station that broadcasts in isiZulu. The station keeps its Zulu speaking audiences connected to their cultural identity in a modern world-context.
Umhlobo Wenene FM
Umhlobo Wenene FM is the second-largest vernacular radio station in SA. The station broadcasts to the Xhosa-speaking and understanding community and offers music, information, talk, drama and sport. Umhlobo Wenene FM has transmitters in 7 of the provinces but the majority of its audience is the Eastern Cape.
X-K fm
This new kid on the block was moved to Platfontein and did its first broadcast on 27 February 2004. X-K is a community station and broadcasts in !Xu and Khwe. The station broadcasts between 06:00 and 18:00.
