South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
When TWR turned on the studio microphones in Morocco and first started broadcasting to Southern Europe, it did so in three languages – Spanish, French and English. In the 67 years since, that complement has grown a hundredfold to include less well-known languages like Dhundari and Wagdi and even endangered ones […]
Nelson Mandela Bay Christian radio station Kingfisher FM this week shared with listeners the good news that it has heard from the licensing authority ICASA that it is one of only two of 142 applicants nationwide to have made it into the second phase of the current community radio stations […]
Nelson Mandela Bay Christian radio station Kingfisher FM this week celebrated 21 years of broadcasting. “Kingfisher FM has so much to be grateful for and so many people to thank from one of the founders Manie Steyn to current head of our board Wouter van der Westhuizen. In short we […]
The 2nd Annual Mzansi Christian Awards (MCA2016) — scheduled for October 1 — have announced a strong line-up of nominations for its creative, performance and media awards. Breakthrough artist Dr Tumi received four nominations — Best Christian Artist, Best Contemporary Artist, Best Male Personality and Personality of the Year, scoring […]
Staff of the international media organization TWR joined churches, partners and other friends on Friday (October 31) to celebrate four decades of broadcasting from the ministry’s powerful transmitter complex in Swaziland. The main gathering was at the transmitter site itself near Manzini, Swaziland. A simultaneous celebration at Croydon Baptist Church was […]
PE FM 87.6 is hosting a bumper Gospel Jazz Festival on December 8 in Happy Valley, Port Elizabeth, says the Christian community radio station in a media release. The festival caters for music lovers over a wide spectrum and will provide an opportunity to approach the festive season, praising and […]
It is that time of year again when Nelson Mandela Bay musicians look forward to the excitement of Kingfisher FM’s annual ‘Do You Rock?’- music competition. “This year we team up with partners that include home-grown brands like, Bay TV, Rap Studios, Rnoon Photography and Media Axis. Winners can also look […]
A new Port Elizabeth Christian-based community radio station, PE FM, will start broadcasting from 6am on Monday (September 3) on 87.6FM. Education and empowerment are at the heart of the station which will have a special focus on “raising the next generation of wise and godly citizens who will shun […]
Last week, saw more than one hundred and forty delegates from 57 different media platforms, including Radio Stations, TV-stations, magazines and music houses meet in Johannesburg for their annual media conference of the Association of Christian Media. Xandre van der Berg, Kingfisher FM’s Program Manager attended the conference on behalf […]
Close on twenty thousand online listeners, indicating 150 000 traditional listeners – this is the latest figure released for Nelson Mandela Bay based niche-caster, Kingfisher FM.‘Last month they had 19 840 unique listeners on audio streaming’, said Chris Grant of the NetDynamix Group in an independent report. ‘These listeners have […]