Radio Orania

Radio Orania is a South African community radio station based in the Northern Cape. The coverage area is Orania, a town in the Northern Cape,[2] although some reception is possible as far as Hopetown.[3]

Radio Orania
CityOrania
Broadcast areaNorthern Cape
Frequency95.5 MHz
Programming
Language(s)Afrikaans
Ownership
OwnerOrania Uitsaaidienste[1]
History
First air date
12 April 2008

Programmes are broadcast in Afrikaans language,[2] from 5 am to 4 pm and 5 to 10 pm.[2] The Orania community is the target audience.[2] Programme format includes about 40% music and 60% talk.[2]

The radio station was launched on 12 April 2008, after its predecessor Radio 100 had been shut down by ICASA.[4] The station is manned by volunteers only,[5] counting over 50 contributors.[6]

Programmes include readings of Afrikaans literature such as Mikro's Die ruiter in die nag.[7] A 13-year-old student at Orania's Volkskool made local news in 2009, when his radio play about Battle of Majuba was broadcast by the station.[8]

Listenership figures
Estimated Listenership[9]
7 Day
May 2013 22 000
Feb 2013 8 000
Dec 2012 9 000
Oct 2012 8 000
Aug 2012 6 000
Jun 2012 6 000

Notes
  1. Notice 1046 of 2007, Government Gazette of the Republic of South Africa, 24 August 2007. Accessed on the 2nd of May 2017.
  2. The Annual Guide to Radio in South Africa (AdVantage 2012). Media 24. 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-05-23.
  3. Hagen 2013, p. 65.
  4. "Voorgrond" (in Afrikaans). Orania Beweging. July 2011. Archived from the original on 10 April 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  5. "Get ready for Radio Orania..." IOL News. 10 April 2008. Archived from the original on 12 April 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  6. "Orania Beweging". Twitter. 31 March 2014. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  7. Hagen 2013, p. 66.
  8. Lombard, Eleanor (20 March 2009). "Pluimpie vir jong skrywer". Volksblad. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  9. SAARF RAMS (Presentations)

References


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