Good Hope FM is
Cape Town
Cape Town is the legislature, legislative capital city, capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. Cape Town is the country's List of municipalities in South Africa, second-largest ...
's leading music focused interactive lifestyle radio station, whose
contemporary hit radio
Contemporary hit radio (CHR, also known as contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top ...
format provides a music mix of
R&B,
pop,
hip hop
Hip-hop or hip hop (originally disco rap) is a popular music genre that emerged in the early 1970s from the African-American community of New York City. The style is characterized by its synthesis of a wide range of musical techniques. Hip- ...
and dance. It targets young, global, routed and "now generation" listeners. Its footprint covers the Cape including the city, surrounding towns and villages the
Overberg and
Plettenberg Bay. The station has a target audience of LSM 6-9, 22-32 year olds.
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
It contributes to the development of South African music and local content through a consistent delivery according to ICASA guidelines and expectations. The station has regular interviews with local artists and supports the local music industry. It 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 which provides a platform for advertisers to reach the affluent 20-something market of metropolitan Cape Town.
Coverage and 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.
Broadcast Languages
*English (predominantly)
*Afrikaans (sometimes)
Broadcast time
24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Listenership figures
References
External links
Good Hope FM website
Radio stations in Cape Town
Contemporary hit radio stations
Radio stations established in 1965
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