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Top 17 Radio stations based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 69 radio stations headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 1,614 professional contacts across them, including 298 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.
This list covers radio stations headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 17 largest radio stations based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 252 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “OFM is central South Africa's largest independent radio station.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From the heart of Gauteng wherever you may be, Kaya 959 connects with our loyal listeners through a range of digital and on-air platforms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Algoa FM broadcasts from the Garden Route to the Wild Coast.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A Western Cape commercial radio station with its heart in the right place: embedded in the communities that love our music and share the region's unique identity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “South Africa's number 1 Urban Radio Station broadcasting across South Africa on FM Stereo and also on the DSTV Bouquet Channel 801.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Jacaranda FM is one of the biggest independent radio stations in South Africa with a combined audience of over 3 million - a bilingual broadcaster with a footprint that extends to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Good Hope FM is Cape Town's leading music focused, interactive lifestyle radio station, whose contemporary hit radio format provides a music mix of R&B, Pop, Soft Rock, Hip Hop…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Tshwane University of Technology's Tshwane FM radio station specifically caters for the Pretoria Central students of the institution and surrounding metropolitan region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Smile 90.4FM is a bilingual radio station that offers entertainment, information and inspiration to the upper LSM Metropolitan audience of Cape Town.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “As the only CLASSICAL AND JAZZ MUSIC STATION in the Western Cape, FINE MUSIC RADIO (FMR) is peerless.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pretoria FM is een van die grootste gemeenskapsgebaseerde radiostasies in Pretoria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hot 102.7 FM "Playing Joburg's Best Old Skool and R&B'” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Impact Radio is a Christian Radio Station based in Gauteng, and broadcasting on 103FM as well as via live web streaming.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Magic Music Radio is an independent music radio station, broadcasting to the Western Cape region and streaming to listeners in South Africa and abroad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: radio stations. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names radio stations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of radio stations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name radio stations. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Radio stations based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 69 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among radio stations, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “radio stations”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names radio stations), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among radio stations, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 298 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names radio stations, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many radio stations are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 69 radio stations headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
OFM, headquartered in Mangaung, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most radio stations?
Johannesburg leads with 10 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (9) and Pretoria (7).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 298 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 69 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.