LM Radio

LM Radio ( Lourenço Marques Radio ) was a radio station that has transmitted to southern Africa from Lourenço Marques (today Maputo ) in Mozambique from 1933-1975. She was often referred to as Radio Luxembourg from South Africa.

Influence

Until the early 1980s the radio was controlled by the state in South Africa and the South African Broadcasting Corporation SABC was the only radio station. LM Radio was privately owned and operated a large audience of young people on the transfer of pop and rock music, which was hardly sent by the SABC stations. Many young South African artist saw her debut on LM Radio on the transfer of a variety of shows, which toured the country. In LM Radio also a whole generation of adiosprechern and disc jockeys learned their craft on the other South African or other stations made ​​careers later. For example, John Berks, Gary Edwards, Frank Sanders, Robin Alexander, Darryl Jooste, George Wayne and David Gresham, after beginning at LM Radio at about Swazi Music Radio (SMR ), Radio 702, Springbok Radio and other SABC stations, as Triple J were successful in Sydney.

History

The first radio station in Lourenço Marques / Maputo went on 18 March 1933 on consignment, but put the transmission in 1934 temporarily for lack of funds a. The South African GJ McHarry appeared on the scene and 1935 the Radio Clube de Moçambique was established that sent predominantly in English. 1947 took over Colonel Richard L. Meyer, a former general manager of the International Broadcasting Company of London with John Davenport management of Lourenço Marques Radio. David Davies and David Gordon were the first speaker of the new commercial radio station. David Gordon moved in 1950 to Springbok Radio. 1948 related LM Radio a new four - storey - building, which became known as "Radio Palace ". The station began with the first radio variety shows in South Africa. In the late 1950s, the station turned to her Progranmm the neglected state of the SABC young generation. LM Radio, as it was now generally called, was famous for the chart show LM Hit Parade, and played an important role in the promotion of young South African artists, but lost much of its luster when it was taken over in 1972 by SABC. On September 7, 1974, the station was occupied during a bloody uprising in Lourenço Marques and taken over their management of troops of the Mozambican Frelimo guerrilla movement. When, after Mozambique's independence in June 1975, the assets of LM Radio was nationalized on 12 October of the same year and the station was closed, an era came to an end. The place of LM Radio was taken in South Africa by Radio 5, later known as 5FM.

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