Harare's talk radio station goes live

Harare's Metropolitan talk radio station Capitalk100.4FM is set for its debut live broadcast starting today from 6am to 10am.

The first live broadcast will be a business breakfast show called Start Up Capital and will be hosted by Farai Gwaze.

Speaking to H-Metro, the station's manager Napoleon Nyanhi said:

"We are starting our live broadcasts by launching the business breakfast show which will be four hours long and also other slots will have such durations.

"For now it's the breakfast show only then in the coming days we will be introducing other slots that means from tomorrow (today), from 6 am to 10 am it's the live morning show then we switch to the music signal."

Nyanhi also said the prime time slots will be mostly concentrated on talk and there will be new voices in terms of on air personalities.

"We are a talk radio and 70 percent of the content will be talk and 30 percent music. The breakfast show will be mostly on business and you will get to hear one or two songs in each hour, and the rest will be discussions.

"There will be one or two familiar voices but the rest will be new to the airwaves and we expect to be all systems go in terms of live broadcasting before the end of the first quarter of this year," he added.

The station is still under construction and is located in Chisipite.