Saturday, July 04, 2009

Happy Station Show 9th July

On July 9th for the 1500UTC transmission of Happy Station I'll be doing a feature paying tribute to South Africa's first commercial radio station Springbok Radio.
Some quick facts:
- Springbok hit the airwaves in 1950
- Some well known RSA announcers like Kim Shippey also worked at Springbok
- Springbok was a commercial station operated by the SABC
- Springbok is the first ever media outlet to make a James Bond book into a drama.
- The station stopped in 1985, 9 years after television came to South Africa in 1976.
- Springbok came back in 2008 as an online radio station www.springbokradio.com
My guest is Neil Hendrickse from Springbok Radio. I will also feature some vintage clips of the golden era of South African radio.
July 9th, 2009 1500 to 1555 UTC
Frequency: 9955 khz to North America www.wrmi.net for web stream
July 11, 2009 1000 to 1055 UTC
Frequency. 88.5 fm Tawa, Redwood, New Zealand www.worldfm.co.nz for webstream
July 12, 2009 9:05 pm to 9:59 pm (local time)Radio Sonora (various frequencies) Jakarta and nation wide in Indonesia
(Keith Perron)

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