702 dominates MTN Radio Awards

It was interesting times in the MTN Radio Awards with 702 dominating.
Reading the tweets it looks like 702 really did kick ass. As one of the tweeters commented “the power of talk radiO!”
Here are a couple of the award winners:
Radio Station of the year: Radio 702
Best Breakfast Show: Gareth Cliff
Young Archiver of the Year: Marcelle [...]

Radio Twits

Thought it would be a little bit of fun to see which of the SA radio DJ’s / personalities had the biggest following on Twitter.
While a Twitter following is not indicative of real popularity and listenership, it is quite obvious which stations have backed the technology / social media initiatives.
I’ve picked the obvious ones but [...]

Is Gareth Cliff wrong on Manto?

I see Gareth Cliff from 5FM is taking some flak in the Twitterverse (big whoop) and the media about some comments he made about former health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
A couple of his “Tweets” included:
“That woman – Manto – and her policies on AIDS sent many thousands of people to their graves early. She added no value [...]

SA’s best DJ?

Last year we threw out a question to the SA blogosphere asking who the best DJs in South Africa were at the moment.
Admittedly our audience was pretty small but the responses that came back basically saw support for two DJs – Gareth Cliff of 5FM and Robbie Kruse from Tuks 5FM who I think has [...]