Radio 2000 is a South African national radio station. Owned by the

South African Broadcasting Corporation The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is the public broadcaster in South Africa, and provides 19 radio stations (Amplitude modulation, AM/Frequency modulation, FM) as well as 6 television broadcasts and 3 OTT Services to the general ...

(SABC), and based in

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu language, Zulu and Xhosa language, Xhosa: eGoli ) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa. With 5,538,596 people in the City of Johannesburg alon ...

, it broadcasts nationally between 97.2, and 100 FM. It is one of several radio stations in

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

that broadcasts live sport reports. When it was established in July 1986, Radio 2000 would "

simulcast Simulcast (a portmanteau of "simultaneous broadcast") is the broadcasting of programs or events across more than one resolution, bitrate or medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at exactly the same time (that is, simultaneously) ...

" the original soundtracks of television programmes which were dubbed in

Afrikaans Afrikaans is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and also Argentina where there is a group in Sarmiento, Chubut, Sarmiento that speaks the Pat ...

, thereby catering for English speakers who wished to watch them in the original language.''The voice, the vision: a sixty year history of the South African Broadcasting Corporation''
Malcolm Theunissen, Victor Nikitin, Melanie Pillay, Advent Graphics, 1996, page 120

Coverage areas & frequencies

*National (97.2 - 100.0 FM)

Broadcast languages

*English

Broadcast time

*24/7

Target audience

*LSM Groups 7 – 10

Listenership figures

References

External links

Official Website
Radio stations in Johannesburg Radio stations established in 1986 {{SouthAfrica-radio-station-stub