Radio Pretoria licensed after 17-year wait

Afrikaans station Radio Pretoria has finally been granted a five-year broadcasting licence by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa), after a 17-year wait.

“After a sustained battle of 17 years, Radio Pretoria (104.2 FM) has received its broadcasting licence,” the station’s media spokesman Henk Joubert said yesterday. “It is clearly written on the licence that the station will serve ‘an Afrikaner, farmer-based community’,” he said.

An Icasa spokesman confirmed the station had been granted a licence. It had been broadcasting on temporary licences for nearly two decades. Joubert said the station had an audience of up to 750 000.

Source: Media Network, Sapa

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