{"id":16193,"date":"2024-02-12T22:06:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T20:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/?p=16193"},"modified":"2024-02-12T22:07:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T20:07:23","slug":"media-statement-world-radio-day-2024-reminder-of-the-important-role-sabc-plays-in-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/media-statement-world-radio-day-2024-reminder-of-the-important-role-sabc-plays-in-society\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA STATEMENT | WORLD RADIO DAY 2024: REMINDER OF THE IMPORTANT ROLE SABC PLAYS IN SOCIETY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Johannesburg \u2013 Monday, 12 February 2024 \u2013<\/span><\/strong><span data-ogsc=\"black\"> As the world celebrates World Radio Day tomorrow, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), which is the country\u2019s only public broadcaster, will commemorate the day with several panel discussions with some of the country\u2019s key thought leaders, who will be reflecting on the last 100 years of radio broadcasting as well as the future radio in South Africa and globally. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\">The theme for World Radio Day 2024 is \u201cRadio: A century of informing, entertaining and educating\u201d, and there is no better example than the SABC, which with its 19 radio stations has been providing world class services to its diverse radio audiences in the language of their choice for over eight decades. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Focusing on the activities to mark World Radio Day, SABC Radio has partnered with two higher education and training institutions, WITS Centre for Journalism and University of Johannesburg, to hold dialogues where ideas will be shared by various experts, at UJ premises as well as SABC Radio Park. Individual stations will also hold various activities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\">The below are the key SABC Radio broadcasts, which take place tomorrow:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Phalaphala FM\u2019s 09h00-12h00 show will broadcast live from the University of Limpopo.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Munghana Lonene FM\u2019s 12h00-13h30 show will broadcast live from the University of Limpopo.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Thobela FM will also provide live reports from the University of Limpopo, as well as broadcasting live from Ditjong in Saxonwold to celebrate World Radio Day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Umhlobo Wenene FM will have a swap of the drive time shows for the day where the programme <em>\u2018iBrakfesi Eyondlayo<\/em> Ekuseni\u2019 team will take over the afternoon drive show and the afternoon drive team \u2018<em>Enochatha\u2019<\/em> will take over the breakfast show slot. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-ogsc=\"black\">In line with the subtheme of educating the nation, the 09:00 \u2013 12:00 programme on Umhlobo Wenene FM will be broadcasting live from Ndema Secondary High School in Tsomo, Eastern Cape, in partnership with Hollywood Bets Foundation. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Lotus FM\u2019s \u2018The Breakfast\u2019 which broadcasts from 06h00-09h00, will in collaboration with Ukhozi FM breakfast team, present the station\u2019s breakfast show.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Lotus FM\u2019s 09h00-12h00 show \u2018Style in the City\u2019 will also do a simulcast broadcast with 5fm.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Lotus FM\u2019s \u2018Lunch Break\u2019 broadcast from 13h00-15h00, will conduct a simulcast broadcast with Radio 2000 and SAFM.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Munghana Lonene FM and Thobela FM will do a simul<\/span><span data-ogsc=\"black\">cast on the \u2018<em>Tamintlangu<\/em> Sports Show\u2019 between 19h00-20h00.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\">All the SABC\u2019s radio stations will commemorate this important day through various activities including interviews, interacting with the public to discuss the role of radio and of course going down radio memory lane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span data-ogsc=\"black\">ENDS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Issued By: Group Communications<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Media Enquiries: Mmoni Seapolelo (Acting Group Executive: Corporate Affairs &amp; Marketing)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\"><a href=\"mailto:Seapolelomv@sabc.co.za\" data-ogsc=\"\"><strong>Seapolelomv@sabc.co.za<\/strong><\/a><\/span><strong><span data-ogsc=\"black\">\u00a0| T. 011 714 3057 | C. 073 688\u00a0159<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg \u2013 Monday, 12 February 2024 \u2013 As the world celebrates World Radio Day tomorrow, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), which is the country\u2019s only public broadcaster, will commemorate the day with several panel discussions with some of the country\u2019s key thought leaders, who will be reflecting on the last 100 years of radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16195,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16193\/revisions\/16195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}