Algoa FM is the main South African commercial

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serving the

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province and Garden Route. It started broadcasting on 1 January 1986 as part of the

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(SABC). It was privatised in October 1996. Algoa FM is licensed by the

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Corporate

Algoa FM is a subsidiary of Africa Media Entertainment (AME), which was established in 1997, and is listed on the

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Footprint

{{Unsourced-section, date=June 2025 Algoa FM reaches through the

and

Garden Route The Garden Route (Afrikaans: ''Tuinroete'') is a stretch of the south-eastern coast of South Africa which extends from Witsand in the Western Cape to the border of Tsitsikamma Storms River in the Eastern Cape. The name comes from the verdant ...

, from

Mossel Bay Mossel Bay () is a harbour town of about 170,000 people on the Garden Route of South Africa. It is an important tourism and farming region of the Western Cape Province. Mossel Bay lies 400 kilometres east of the country's seat of parliament, Ca ...

Barkly East Barkly East (Afrikaans: Barkly-Oos) is a town in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, seat of the Joe Gqabi District Municipality, and 117 km by road E.S.E. of Aliwal North, lying in the mountainous area just south of Lesotho. The town lies ...

and as far north as

Colesberg Colesberg is a town with 17,354 inhabitants in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, located on the main N1 road from Cape Town to Johannesburg. In a sheep-farming area spread over half-a-million hectares, greater Colesberg breeds ma ...

. Algoa FM's on-air audience stretches from the Garden Route through to the Wild Coast, and inland through the Karoo Hinterland.

References

The Broadcast Research Council of South Africa (BRC) African Media Entertainment (AME) The Annual Guide to Radio in South Africa (AdVantage 2012). Media 24. 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-05-23. Radio stations in South Africa Gqeberha Mass media in the Eastern Cape