5FM has received a Station of the Year nomination, along with 14 other nominations and two Bright Star Inductees at the 2024 Radio Awards. This follows the station celebrating multiple accolades this year and also recently winning a Silver Award in the 2024 Rapport Jou Keuse readers’ choice awards.
The radio station reveals that Jodell Tantij, Host of the 5 Takeover on Sundays from 10:00 to 14:00 and Yonaka Theledi, News Anchor on 5 Mid Mornings with Stephanie Be, from Monday to Friday from 9:00 to midday, were announced as Bright Star Inductees.
5FM and Good Hope FM PCS Combo Business Manager, Masixole Mdingane highlights the station’s identity as a youth focuses media.
“5FM has always been known as a station that is for the youth, by the youth, on trend, in the know, unafraid and engaging — bringing the VIBE to SA’s biggest young movers and shakers,” Mdingane said.
He said celebrating multiple public vote accolades in recent times, along with these nominations, especially Station of the Year, shows that the station is more than just talk.
“A fiery spirit, the best youth talent in the world, finely curated content, top tunes and packed events deliver the only thing that really matters in radio: an engaged and moved audience, and solid ROI for clients. It’s legendary radio, Ampli5ed.”
5FM’s Radio Awards nominations comprise the followings:
Station of the Year
Best Afternoon Drive Presenter: Nick Hamman
Best Afternoon Drive Show: The Roger Goode Show on 5
Best Content Producer: Mike Bower, 5 Drive
Best Multi-Channel Promotion: The Roger Goode Experience
Best Music Show: The Top 40 on 5 with Nick Archibald
Best Weekend Radio Show: 5 Weekend Breakfast with Tshepi
Best Promotions Stunt / Event: The Great Radio Takeover — World Radio Day
Best Promotions Stunt / Event: The Roger Goode Experience
Best Radio Innovation: 5 Drive War Cry Championship
Best Station Imaging: 5FM — Apli5 Manifesto Launch
Best Station Imaging: Ampli5 Manifesto — Ampli5 Your City Frequency
Best Traffic Presenter: Yonaka Theledi, 5 Drive
Best Sport Bulletin Reader: Xoli Zondo, 5 Breakfast, and
Best Traffic Presenter: Marli van Eeden, 5 Breakfast.