Jacaranda 94.2
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Jacaranda 94.2 is a commercial South African radio
station, broadcasting
in English and Afrikaans
, with a footprint that covers Gauteng
, Limpopo
, Mpumalanga
and the North West Province and boasts an audience of more than 2 million. The station's format is mainstream Adult Contemporary with programming constructed around a playlist of popular music from the 80's, 90's and today, as well as interactive and emotive features woven into daily programming.
It is an important player in South Africa's most competitive radio market, Gauteng, and dominates all of its target audience demographics in the nation's capital, Pretoria
. According to official numbers from the South African Advertising Research Foundation released in 2010, Jacaranda 94.2 is the no. 1 station among Afrikaans home language consumers in Gauteng province. Gauteng is South Africa's economic powerhouse and home to the vast majority of the country's economically active population.
Jacaranda 94.2 operates a regional transmitter split service from a studio in Nelspruit
. It can be heard in most of the Capricorn, Bushveld and Lowveld regions of the Limpopo Province as well as in the Mpumalanga Lowveld, notably Nelspruit and the Kruger National Park. Broadcasts occur weekdays from 12:00-16:00 and on Saturdays from 10:00-14:00. It also provides morning and afternoon drivetime newscasts to the regional audience.
's regional radio portfolio following their decision to discontinue the legendary Springbok Radio
on 31 December 1985. The original three regional services, Radio Good Hope, Radio Port Natal and Radio Highveld were expanded with three new services - Radio Jacaranda, Radio Oranje and Radio Algoa. Jacaranda's transmitting signal was upgraded to stereo in 1990 - coupled with a name change to Jakaranda Stereo/Jacaranda Stereo. In 1994, the name was changed again to Jacaranda 94-97. Original location was Studio RS9 at SABC Northern Transvaal Broadcasting Services in Weavind Park, Pretoria until a move to a highly visible location next to the N1 Ben Schoeman Freeway in Samrand Avenue, Centurion when the station was privatised in 1997 - and renamed "Jacaranda 94.2 - More Music, More Stars/Meer Musiek, Meer Sterre". In 1999, the payoff line changed to "Your Soothing Companion/Jou Streler Speler", and currently is "Life's Greatest Hits".
Prominent past presenters of this radio station include: Fanus Rautenbach, Willem Engelbrecht, Ben Theunissen, Helen Naudé, Theo Conradie, Tom Henderson, Alida Theron, Anelle Schotkamp-Hugo, Pierre Schnehage, Anton Schmidt, Derrich Gardner, Morné Zeelie, Elana Afrika, Kieno Kammies, Duncan Pollock, Clayton Robbertze and Darren Scott.
Jacaranda 94.2 is part of Kagiso Media, South Africa's biggest black owned media company. Jacaranda 94.2 is the group's top performer and is currently South Africa's number 1 independent radio station.
SUNDAY
(RCS).
The FM signal is beamed via STL
from the Jacaranda Broadcast Centre in Centurion and carried on 22 transmitters broadcasting on frequencies ranging from 93.9 - 97.1 MHz. These transmitters are operated by South Africa's state-owned broadcast signal distributor Sentech
.
In addition to the conventional over-the-air FM broadcast, Jacaranda 94.2 is also available on the DStv
audio bouquet (Channel 158). The DStv IS-7 Ku band
satellite footprint blankets the whole of South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and the southern half of Malawi.
Live worldwide audio streaming is hosted on its website.
GAUTENG
LIMPOPO
MPUMALANGA
NORTH WEST
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
station, broadcasting
Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...
in English and Afrikaans
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...
, with a footprint that covers Gauteng
Gauteng
Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...
, Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...
, Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...
and the North West Province and boasts an audience of more than 2 million. The station's format is mainstream Adult Contemporary with programming constructed around a playlist of popular music from the 80's, 90's and today, as well as interactive and emotive features woven into daily programming.
It is an important player in South Africa's most competitive radio market, Gauteng, and dominates all of its target audience demographics in the nation's capital, Pretoria
Pretoria
Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.Pretoria is...
. According to official numbers from the South African Advertising Research Foundation released in 2010, Jacaranda 94.2 is the no. 1 station among Afrikaans home language consumers in Gauteng province. Gauteng is South Africa's economic powerhouse and home to the vast majority of the country's economically active population.
Jacaranda 94.2 operates a regional transmitter split service from a studio in Nelspruit
Nelspruit
Nelspruit is a city of more than 500,000 people situated in northeastern South Africa. It is the capital of the Mpumalanga province . Located on the Crocodile River, Nelspruit lies about west of the Mozambique border and east of Johannesburg. The towns of Nelspruit are Kanyamazane and Pienaar...
. It can be heard in most of the Capricorn, Bushveld and Lowveld regions of the Limpopo Province as well as in the Mpumalanga Lowveld, notably Nelspruit and the Kruger National Park. Broadcasts occur weekdays from 12:00-16:00 and on Saturdays from 10:00-14:00. It also provides morning and afternoon drivetime newscasts to the regional audience.
History
The station started broadcasting at midnight on 1 January 1986 during a special outside broadcast from a New Year's Eve ball in the Pretoria City Hall. Radio Jakaranda/Radio Jacaranda was established as a result of the restructuring of the South African Broadcasting CorporationSouth African Broadcasting Corporation
The South African Broadcasting Corporation is the state-owned broadcaster in South Africa and provides 18 radio stations as well as 3 television broadcasts to the general public.-Early years:Radio broadcasting began in South Africa in 1923...
's regional radio portfolio following their decision to discontinue the legendary Springbok Radio
Springbok Radio
Springbok Radio was a South African radio station that operated from 1950 to 1985.-History:On 1 May 1950, the first commercial radio station in South Africa, Springbok Radio took to the airwaves broadcasting in both English and Afrikaans...
on 31 December 1985. The original three regional services, Radio Good Hope, Radio Port Natal and Radio Highveld were expanded with three new services - Radio Jacaranda, Radio Oranje and Radio Algoa. Jacaranda's transmitting signal was upgraded to stereo in 1990 - coupled with a name change to Jakaranda Stereo/Jacaranda Stereo. In 1994, the name was changed again to Jacaranda 94-97. Original location was Studio RS9 at SABC Northern Transvaal Broadcasting Services in Weavind Park, Pretoria until a move to a highly visible location next to the N1 Ben Schoeman Freeway in Samrand Avenue, Centurion when the station was privatised in 1997 - and renamed "Jacaranda 94.2 - More Music, More Stars/Meer Musiek, Meer Sterre". In 1999, the payoff line changed to "Your Soothing Companion/Jou Streler Speler", and currently is "Life's Greatest Hits".
Prominent past presenters of this radio station include: Fanus Rautenbach, Willem Engelbrecht, Ben Theunissen, Helen Naudé, Theo Conradie, Tom Henderson, Alida Theron, Anelle Schotkamp-Hugo, Pierre Schnehage, Anton Schmidt, Derrich Gardner, Morné Zeelie, Elana Afrika, Kieno Kammies, Duncan Pollock, Clayton Robbertze and Darren Scott.
Jacaranda 94.2 is part of Kagiso Media, South Africa's biggest black owned media company. Jacaranda 94.2 is the group's top performer and is currently South Africa's number 1 independent radio station.
Current weekday presenter lineup
- 05:00-06:00: Robbie Kruse
- 06:00-10:00: Frankie du Toit, Dianne Broodryk (News), Robbie Kruse (Traffic), John Walland (Sport)
- 10:00-13:00: Workzone with Julio Garcia & Gerda de Sousa (News)
- 13:00-16:00: Workzone with Barney Simon & Gerda de Sousa (News)
- 16:00-19:00: Martin Bester Drive with Martin Bester, Marius van der Walt (News), Janina Oberholzer (Traffic) & Trevor Cramer (Sport)
- 19:00-19:30: Sports Cage with Simon Hill
- 19:30-23:00: That Show with Rian van Heerden
- 22:00-00:00: Antowan Nothling
- 12:00-16:00: Jacaranda Regional - Miguel Proenca
Current weekend presenter lineup
SATURDAY- 06:00-10:00: The Wakeup Shakeup with Andrew Sorrill
- 10:00-12:00: Top 20 with Robbie Kruse
- 12:00-16:00: Maurice Carpede
- 16:00-20:00: Antowan Nothling
- 20:00-00:00: Saturday Night Fever with Dewald Noel
- 10:00-14:00: Jacaranda Regional - Miguel Proenca
SUNDAY
- 06:00-10:00: The Wakeup Shakeup with Andrew Sorrill
- 10:00-12:00: Closet Classics with Barney Simon
- 12:00-16:00: Maurice Carpede
- 16:00-20:00: Pieter Koen
- 20:00-00:00: Janina Oberholzer
Playout and transmission
Jacaranda 94.2 utilises Selector music scheduling and Master Control playout software from Radio Computing ServicesRadio Computing Services
Radio Computing Services, also known as RCS Inc., is a provider of scheduling and broadcast software for radio, Internet and television stations. The company was established in 1979 by Dr. Andrew Economos. On January 26, 2006, Clear Channel Communications purchased RCS as a subsidiary...
(RCS).
The FM signal is beamed via STL
Studio/transmitter link
A studio-transmitter link sends a radio station's or television station's audio and video from the broadcast studio to a radio transmitter or television transmitter in another location....
from the Jacaranda Broadcast Centre in Centurion and carried on 22 transmitters broadcasting on frequencies ranging from 93.9 - 97.1 MHz. These transmitters are operated by South Africa's state-owned broadcast signal distributor Sentech
Sentech
Sentech is the signal distributor for the South African broadcasting sector. The organisation began operations in 1992 as the signal distributor of the South African Broadcasting Corporation...
.
In addition to the conventional over-the-air FM broadcast, Jacaranda 94.2 is also available on the DStv
DStv
DStv is MultiChoice's multi-channel digital satellite TV service in Africa, launched in 1995. It operates from two satellites over Africa, broadcasting on Ku band via Eutelsat W7 and Intelsat 7 , which only requires a small satellite dish...
audio bouquet (Channel 158). The DStv IS-7 Ku band
Ku band
The Kμ band is a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in the microwave range of frequencies. This symbol refers to —in other words, the band directly below the K-band...
satellite footprint blankets the whole of South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and the southern half of Malawi.
Live worldwide audio streaming is hosted on its website.
- List of analogue terrestrial (FM) transmitters:
GAUTENG
- 94.20 MHz - Pretoria-GelukskroonGelukskroon transmitterGelukskroon transmitter is a large FM-/TV-transmission facility near Pretoria, South Africa It consists of several towers among them a partially guyed lattice tower standing on the roof of a building, which is the tallest tower of the facility, and a telecommunication tower built of concrete.-...
- 95.30 MHz - Menlo ParkMenlo Park, PretoriaMenlo Park is a suburb in the city of Pretoria, South Africa. It borders other upmarket areas Waterkloof, Brooklyn and Lynnwood. When it was first established between the 1950s and 1970s, it was the most eastern suburb of Pretoria, but the city has since considerably expanded eastwards...
LIMPOPO
- 93.90 MHz - Louis Trichardt
- 94.60 MHz - Potgietersrus-Sugarloaf Hill
- 95.10 MHz - ThabazimbiThabazimbiThabazimbi is an iron mining town in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The town is situated at the feet of the Ysterberg and is surrounded by the Witfonteinrand and Boshofberg with the majestic Kransberg in the background. The name Thabazimbi means mountain of iron because of the large iron ore...
-Kransberg - 95.20 MHz - HoedspruitHoedspruitHoedspruit is a town situated at the foot of the Klein Drakensberg , in the Limpopo province of South Africa, on the railway line from Tzaneen to Kaapmuiden.-Economy:...
-Mariepskop - 95.50 MHz - Blouberg
- 95.80 MHz - TzaneenTzaneenTzaneen is a small town situated in the Mopani district of the Limpopo province in South Africa. It is in a fertile region with tropical and subtropical agriculture taking place in a 20,000 km² region...
- 96.10 MHz - Nylstroom-Ruskloof
MPUMALANGA
- 94.00 MHz - DullstroomDullstroomDullstroom-Emnotweni is one of the coldest towns in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, and along with Underberg, it is one of South Africa's premier flyfishing destinations...
-Mareskop - 95.00 MHz - MiddelburgMiddelburg, MpumalangaMiddelburg is a large farming and industrial town in the South African province of Mpumalanga.Middelburg was established as Nasareth, , in 1864 by the Voortrekkers on the banks of the Klein Olifants River. The name was changed in 1872 to Middelburg to mark its situation midway between the Transvaal...
- 95.30 MHz - Piet RetiefPiet Retief, MpumalangaPiet Retief is a town situated in a timber growing region in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. Its is the seat of the Mkhondo Local Municipality. It is located not far from the Swaziland border...
-Goedetrouw - 95.70 MHz - Nelspruit-Spitskop
- 95.80 MHz - VolksrustVolksrustVolksrust is a town in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa on the KwaZulu-Natal provincial border. The town has important beef, dairy, maize, sorghum, wool and sunflower seed industries. It was established near to where the Battle of Majuba, wherein the Transvaal won its independence back...
- 96.00 MHz - LydenburgLydenburgLydenburg is a town in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The town is slated to be renamed Mashishing, according to an announcement made on June 30, 2006 by the South African Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan. Lydenburg is situated on the Sterkspruit/Dorps River tributary of the Olifants River at...
- 96.20 MHz - CarolinaCarolina, MpumalangaCarolina is a town situated on the Johannesburg to Swaziland route in Mpumalanga province in South Africa. It is a mixed farming and on a small scale coal and precious stone mining community. It was established by Cornelius Coetzee as a permanent outspan for wagons when gold was discovered in 1883...
-Pittville - 96.70 MHz - DavelDavelDavel is a settlement in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. It is situated next to the N17 highway in the south-west of the province between the larger towns of Bethal and Ermelo.It is also the site of a Sentech VHF transmitter....
- 97.10 MHz - SabieSabieSabie is a forestry town situated on the banks of the Sabie River in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Once the Sabie River was teeming with crocodiles and the local Shangaan people dubbed it uluSaba or ...
-Klein-Spitskop
NORTH WEST
- 93.90 MHz - Rustenburg-Ishufi
- 94.80 MHz - EnzelsbergEnzelsbergEnzelsberg is the name of a farmstead in the North West Province of South Africa, situated in the Marico Bushveld north of the N4 highway between Groot Marico and Zeerust.It is also the site of a Sentech VHF repeater....
- 95.50 MHz - Groot Marico
- 95.80 MHz - Zeerust
External links
- www.jacarandafm.com - Jacaranda 94.2 consumer website
- www.jacarandarmfm.com - Jacaranda RMFM consumer website
- www.radmark.co.za - RadMark, airtime sales house
- www.kagisomedia.co.za - Kagiso Media Limited, majority shareholder
- www.lagardere.com - Lagardère Active, minority shareholder