Cape Town is wonderful in the summer – albeit slow and laid-back in its arrival this year. I am energised by the heat and cheerfully accept the concomitant wind and flies. I revel in the brassy blue skies, the endless daylight and the rankly fishy smell that pervades the city when there is an easterly [...]

 Jazz presenter Vernon Varty sent in the following story:    In late 1983, one Rodney Trudgeon left SABC Durban for SABC Johannesburg. Our big band, Music Unlimited SA, was at the time very involved with transcription recording and programmes for the then TV2, and our musical director decided to give Rodney a send-off at our [...]

Presenters are still working from the secondary, smaller broadcast studio, but our state-of-the-art digital mixing desk and its accoutrements have arrived in the city, so it shouldn’t be long now before the main studio is in operation. Special sound-proofing tiles are also currently being installed in the studios.

Michelle Loxton and Justin Hoskins, who presented Jazz Assembly on Saturday nights, are no longer with us. In our record library, Rose Hitching takes over as librarian with a view to computerising the system. There have also been some personnel changes among the directors. Len van Zyl has been co-opted onto the board, and Shiloh [...]

From Monday, February 20, the weekday evening business programme, presented by Lindsay Williams (pictured left), will be an hour long, thanks to Old Mutual that has come on board as a co-sponsor, running from 18:00 to 19:00. Old Mutual, together with Warwick, will sponsor the extended programme. Newscape, Lindsay’s half-hour actuality slot that came after [...]

END-OF-YEAR FUNCTION On Thursday December 15, FMR held its regular end-of-year party to thank the station’s large band of volunteers for their sterling efforts during the year. It was very well attended, with many commenting on the high quality of both the eats and the conversation. Station manager Victoria Cawood, looking breezy and well again [...]

I just love clean pages and slates (and consciences), dewy dawns (and eyes), fresh starts and perspectives (and figs).    A new year delivers all this – all mistakes, bad judgements and howling horrors committed in the previous year are wonderfully expunged and absolved. January 1 appears all clean, dewy and fresh and the year [...]

After weeks of surviving under makeshift conditions as our studios were extensively renovated and enlarged, presenters, volunteers and staff moved back into the completed studios over the past weekend – with a big sigh of relief.

The FMR annual general meeting took place at Artscape on Saturday November 12.

Top 100 is now delighted to share publically the eagerly awaited results of the Top 100 SA Wine List Challenge 2012.  The launch event was held at 5-star Rodwell House, St James, Cape Town with canapés and bubbly accompanying the certificate ceremony. CEO Robin von Holdt noted: ‘The 33 quality awards winning establishments are at [...]