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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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 21, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
69Companies
1,614Contacts tracked
298Verified emails
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The 17 largest radio stations based in South Africa

Ranked by team size
Top 17 of 69 radio stations based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to radio stations: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Strong evidenceMangaung, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200252 contacts →

Strong evidence

“OFM is central South Africa's largest independent radio station.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
2Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200171 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, 2026
3Indirect evidencePort Elizabeth, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20084 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Algoa FM broadcasts from the Garden Route to the Wild Coast.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
4Strong evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20072 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, 2026
5Strong evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5062 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, 2026
6Strong evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5048 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, 2026
7Strong evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20044 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, 2026
8Strong evidencePretoria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20043 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, 2026
9Strong evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5040 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, 2026
10Indirect evidenceHoughton Estate, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20027 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
11Strong evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5027 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, 2026
12Indirect evidencePretoria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5025 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Pretoria FM is een van die grootste gemeenskapsgebaseerde radiostasies in Pretoria.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
13Indirect evidencePaulshof, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5024 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Hot 102.7 FM "Playing Joburg's Best Old Skool and R&B'”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
14Strong evidencePretoria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5024 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, 2026
15Strong evidenceCape Town / Western Cape / South Africa, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-509 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, 2026
16Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-503 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
17Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 21, 20261-102 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026

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Radio stations based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 21, 2026
18.5%Verified-email coverage
23.4Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
14.5%Largest-city concentration · Johannesburg
Sep 21, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
17
11-50
39
51-200
12
501-1,000
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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.