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, Hip Hop and Dance. Good Hope FM targets young, global, routed and now generation listeners. The Good Hope FM footprint covers the Cape including the city, surrounding towns and villages the Overberg and Plettenberg Bay, targeting young, global, routed and now generation listeners. The station has a target audience of LSM 6-9, 22-32 year olds.

Good Hope FM
Broadcast areaSouth Africa
Frequency94 - 97 MHz
Slogan"Connecting Cape Town"
Programming
FormatContemporary Hit Radio (CHR)[1]
Ownership
OwnerSABC
History
First air date
1965
Links
Websitehttp://www.goodhopefm.co.za/

The intrinsic offering is:

Entertainment (music, competitions, entertaining features)

Information (news, weather, sport, traffic and surf reports)

Community involvement (fundraising, interviews, sponsorships, events)

Commercial Advertising Platform

Good Hope FM contributes to the development of South African music and local content through a consistent delivery according to ICASA guidelines and expectations. The station hosts regular interviews with local artists and continues to support the local music industry.

The station broadcasts predominantly in English with English/Afrikaans news, traffic reports and commercials.

Good Hope FM is a SABC commercial radio station and was launched in 1965. The station is a well-established Cape Town brand and will keep on providing the ideal platform for advertisers to reach the affluent 20-something market of metropolitan Cape Town.

Coverage & Frequencies

The Good Hope FM broadcast footprint covers Cape Town metropolis and surrounding suburbs, towns and villages and also extends to the Overberg and Plettenberg Bay regions. The surrounding towns and villages include Langebaan, Saldanha Bay, Malmesbury, Paarl, Wellington, Worcester, Franschhoek, Stellenbosch and Gordon's Bay.

Transmitters and Frequencies:
Site Name Freq.
Simons Town93.9 MHz
Franschhoek93.9 MHz
Paarl94.8 MHz
Stellenbosch94.1 MHz
Tygerberg96.2 MHz
Constantia Berg95.3 MHz
Table Mountain95.3 MHz
Sea Point96.7 MHz
Overberg 90.9 MHz
Hermanus 91.9 MHz
Riviersonderend 90.2 MHz
Plettenberg Bay 91.3 MHz

Broadcast Languages
  • English (predominantly)[1]
  • Afrikaans[1]

Broadcast Time

24/7, 365 days a year

Listenership Figures
Estimated Listenership[2]
7 Day 1 Day Ave Hrs

Per Day

Jul 2016 667 000 404 000 2h00

References
  1. "Good Hope FM Website (About)". Archived from the original on 2013-05-05. Retrieved 2013-04-24.
  2. "Frontpage - Broadcast Research Council of South Africa". Broadcast Research Council of South Africa. Retrieved 2016-07-20.


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