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| LM RADIO (Lourenco Marques) |
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| LM RADIO Who can remember the famous LM jingle. “This is Lorenco Marques, for non stop happy listening…….”. Yes indeed, LM Radio. The first commercial radio station in Southern Africa, broadcasting from Lorenco Marques, Mozambique. The service started in 1929 and was known as “The Radio Club of Mozambique”. For many years its broadcast were aimed in particular to South Africa. LM Radio was known for its up to date top twenty music programmes, variety and request shows. No news broadcast were ever done by this station, only non stop 24 hour a day hits. The most famous announcer to be heard on the station was, David Davies. Well known for his famous greeting. Over the many years of happy listening, LM Radio started many young radio personalities’ carreers. Some of them include, John Berks, Gary Edwards, Darryl Jooste, Evelyn Martin, Barry O’Donnahue and Reg de Beer. Here is a list of just some of the programmes heard over the LM airwaves: Teenbeat Party Op en Wakker met LM Twin Spins LM Lunchbreak Popstop LM, A-Go-Go It’s your bag DJ Date Spinout Jet Parade Playback Hits of the World Hitsville, USA LM Hit Pickers SA Big 10 LM Top Twenty Track 33 Wish you were here Kom luister met my Hospitaltime Et al. When Mozambique got its independence from Portugal in 1975, LM Radio closed. A new SABC radio station started and took over from LM. Radio 5 was launched in 1975. Radio 5 can still be heard today, but it’s a far cry from the happy memories that LM Radio managed to conjure up in its heyday. To this day many South African’s fondly recall the days of happy LM listening. As one person put it, “When life was simple and radio was entertainment, not just an instrument babling in the background….”. Frans Erasmus April 2002 |
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| There was a commercial radio service based in Lourenco Marques, Mozambique, which began broadcasting in 1929, and was heard in South Africa, first as The Radio Club Of Mozambique until the late 1940's, and then as LM Radio until 20 May 1975, when it was closed and acquired by the SABC to continue as Radio Five. |
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