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- Category:
- Entertainment & Arts - Radio
- Description:
- 99.2 YFM, GP's Hottest Frequency. Yona Ke Yona!!!
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Admins
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- Kanthan
Events
7 past events
- Funeral of Monde Claude Mabaso...
Feranani Multipurpose Centre (Tsakane)
Thursday, December 31 at 8:30am - Rotary Spring Charity Walk in...
Modderfontein Sports Club
Sunday, September 6 at 7:00am - CLUB Y STREET PARTY
Carfax, Newtown
Saturday, March 28 at 9:00pm - 99.2 Yfm Youth Day party, Cape...
Karma Lounge
Friday, June 13 at 8:00pm - Club Y - The Freedom Day edition
Carfax, Newtown
Sunday, April 27 at 9:00pm - Party to the MAX with Pepsi MAX!
MAX’IN Soweto
Saturday, March 1 at 8:00am - Yfm 10th Birthday Musical Extr...
Emperor's Palace Convention Resort
Friday, October 26 at 7:30pm
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Basic Info
- Name:
- 99.2 Yfm - Yona ke Yona
- Category:
- Entertainment & Arts - Radio
- Description:
- 99.2 YFM, GP's Hottest Frequency. Yona Ke Yona!!!
- Privacy Type:
- Open: All content is public.
Contact Info
- Website:
- http://www.yworld.co.za
- Office:
- No. 4 Albury Road, Dunkeld Crescent, South West Blocks, Dunkeld West Ext 8, Sandton
- Location:
- Johannesburg, South Africa, 2196
Recent News
- News:
- 19 February 2010, 08h00
99.2 Yfm today officially opened doors to its new home in Hyde Park, Johannesburg.
A glittering array of business leaders, media personalities, scientists, and diplomats gathered outside the station’s new home in Dunkeld West for the ribbon cutting by chairman of Yfm’s board, Marcel Golding.
The 1800 square metre two-storey facility which will now be known as the Yfm Building is in the South West part of Dunkeld Crescent, Albury Road, across the road from the Hyde Park Corner Shopping Centre and next door to the headquarters of sister company etv.
The Yfm technical and marketing teams worked closely together in the design of the new studios to ensure operating efficiency while at the same time creating a space that the Yfm team could be proud of. This is immediately obvious as one enters through the front door, where the double-height entryway reveals an almost panoramic view of the main studio with the DJ in the spotlight.
The Yfm ethos of complete transparency is reflected throughout the building where every office and studio features full-length glass walls. The new studios are based on next generation digital desks connected by several kilometres of network cables which replace the more fragile fibre optics of the old studios. This will allow for seamless transitions between the studio and outside broadcast units as well as the new Yfm News studio.
Yfm CEO Kanthan Pillay says the new building is a celebration of the dramatic rise in the fortunes of Gauteng’s youth in the brief period since the station took to the airwaves.
“It was just 12 years ago in October 1997 that 99.2 Yfm took to the airwaves from Bertrams near the Johannesburg CBD,” said Pillay. “The station began broadcasting with used equipment from the legendary Radio Freedom which had been the voice of the ANC and MK in exile from Lusaka. The Yfm studio in Bertrams did not yet have phone lines, and the team made use of a payphone on the premises.
“After dramatic growth in listenership over the next two years, the station moved into The Zone in Rosebank where we became the focal point for GP's urban youth. But the time has come to move on. Our new home in Hyde Park is a larger space that allows us to literally take Yfm to the next level. Most importantly, it brings our commercial and creative teams into the same physical space. This is a reminder to our programming and news team that we are part of a serious business, but equally reminds our corporate side that Yfm is the sexiest place to work in the sexiest country in Africa and the world.”
Factoids:
• Yfm reaches more than 1,6 million listeners in the greater Gauteng area.
• The station boasts a predominantly LSM 7-10 audience with high levels of disposable income and a fondness for new technologies.
• Yfm is recognised by the industry as a springboard for most of the young black radio stars now dominating the national airwaves.
• Yfm has a policy to not hire presenters who have worked for any other commercial radio station. To this end, the station has an intensive in-house training programme called the Y Academy which graduates 12 trained radio personnel every 6 months. To date, 42 candidates have passed through the Y Academy.
• Yfm plays more local music than any other radio station in the country (60 percent or more) and regularly breaks new stars and genres.
• Yfm was the first radio station in South Africa to play kwaito and is still the only radio station to regularly play kwaito tracks.
• Yfm was the first radio station in South Africa to playlist Die Antwoord.
• Yfm was the first radio station in Africa and one of the first in the world to launch a custom application for the Apple iPhone allowing the radio station to be listened to anywhere in the world.
• Yfm was the first radio station in Africa and one of the first in the world to conduct outside broadcasts using 3G cellphone technology.
• Downloads of podcasts from the Yfm website yworld.co.za exceed 100 GB per month.
• Yfm breakfast show host DJ Sbu is officially the most “Googled” celebrity in South Africa.