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Mass exodus at Skyz Metro FM
SKYZ Metro FM has announced the departure of yet another popular presenter, Manurse Ndlovu who joins six other staff members who have parted ways with the Bulawayo-based radio station.The MC a...Published: 31 May 2023 at 21:07hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Sikhonjwa's co-host also quits Skyz FM
BABONGILE Sikhonjwa's co-host on the Skyz Metro FM Vuka Vuka breakfast show, TKP, has also left the fast-growing radio station. The station's manager, Godwin Phiri, said TKP handed in her resi...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fans grieve as Sikhonjwa leaves Skyz FM
YESTERDAY was popular Skyz Metro FM radio personality, Babongile Sikhonjwa's last day on air as he bade farewell to the station after tendering his resignation earlier this month. The most agg...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nama Facebook Live disrupted
This year's National Art Merit Awards Facebook Live broadcast announcement of nominees was abandoned following power outage.The organisers were broadcasting live from the Reps Theatre in Harar...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 05:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Cont Mhlanga's wife carries the dream
VETERAN arts administrator and founder of Amakhosi Cultural Centre Continueloving Mhlanga might have moved to build his new empire away from the madding crowd, down deep in Lupane rural, but his dream...Published: 12 Jul 2017 at 12:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Herculean task for new radio Skyz FM
BULAWAYO's new radio station Skyz FM is now live. But the station faces more than just the burden of looking for advertisers and revenue to sustain its operations.After nearly 18-months of wai...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 10:14hrs | | by Divine Dube
Trevor Ncube's Alpha Media cry tribalism over failed radio bid
Carryslot (Pvt) Ltd, trading as Skyz FM, which is linked to Alpha Media Holdings, proprietors of NewsDay, The Standard and Zimbabwe Independent has accused the Broadcasting Authority of Zimb...Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Funders ditch Skyz FM
SKYZ Metro FM chief executive officer Qhubani Moyo has attributed the Bulawayo-based radio station's delayed launch to a pullout by funders.The radio station, which was licensed in March last ...Published: 18 May 2016 at 16:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Skyz Metro FM to launch in January
Skyz Metro FM, which was licensed in March this year along with seven other radio stations, says it will begin operations in January next year.Qhubani Moyo, the chief executive officer of the ...Published: 29 Nov 2015 at 13:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Brezhnev Malaba joins Skyz Metro FM
Former Sunday Mail Editor, Brezhnev Malaba has joined Skyz Metro FM - Bulawayo's first commercial radio station.The station that was licensed early this year, and had hoped to start broadcasti...Published: 11 Nov 2015 at 05:27hrs | | by Mbongeni Msimanga
Final list of Skyz Metro FM presenters released
Upcoming Bulawayo radio station Skyz Metro FM has finalised its list of 16 presenters, news anchors and DJs who will be joining the Skyz Metro FM family.Skyz Metro FM is expected to start bro...Published: 20 May 2015 at 10:44hrs | 39 | by Ndou Paul
New radio station engage content providers
Skyz Metro FM is currently engaging content providers to promote business opportunities that come with the establishment of this new radio station in Bulawayo.This was said by one of the senio...Published: 18 Mar 2015 at 15:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Moyo speaks on Skyz FM radio licence
PEOPLE who claim that Fairtalk Communications got its radio licences through the benevolence of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo should face reality and ad...Published: 08 Mar 2015 at 12:43hrs | | by Lungile Tshuma
Qhubani Moyo's Skyz Metro FM wins Bulawayo radio licence race
SKYZ Metro FM has become the first commercial radio station in Bulawayo after the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) issued the station with a licence, Chronicle reported.The station...Published: 04 Mar 2015 at 06:35hrs | 5 | by Temba Dube
Fears that AMH will create a media monopoly in Zimbabwe
There are fears that the newspaper group, Alpha Media Holding will morph into a media monopoly if given a chance to venture into radioAMH chairman Trevor Ncube yesterday worked hard to dispell...Published: 10 Sep 2014 at 09:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ezra Sibanda, Mduduzi Mathuthu in tweeter war
Ezra 'Tshisa' Sibanda, the Chief Executive Offcier of one of Bulawayo aspiring commercial radio station Skies FM was last night embroiled in a Twitter 'war' with Chronicle Editor Mduduzi Mathuthu...Published: 03 Sep 2014 at 21:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Trevor Ncube's Skyz FM driven by profit not development'
CARRYSLOT (Pvt) Ltd, trading as Skyz FM and fronted by Media mogul Trevor Ncube is driven by profit and not the cultural development side of the concept, the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe said du...Published: 03 Sep 2014 at 14:58hrs | 2 | by Hangoyapalala waTjibundule
Cont Mhlanga comes under attack at BAZ public hearing
THERE were fireworks at the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) first public hearing as Skyz Metro FM and Skies FM - two of the three radio stations vying for the sole Bulawayo commercial rad...Published: 03 Sep 2014 at 04:12hrs | 1 | by Patrick Chitumba
Ezra Tshisa Sibanda's Skiez FM displays poor show
Skies Radio (Pvt) Ltd, trading as Skies FM and fronted by Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has displayed a jumbled presentation late this afternoon as the bidders tried frantically to convince the radi...Published: 02 Sep 2014 at 16:33hrs | 2 | by Hangoyapalala waTjibundule
Radio licence race heats up
....as Byo community rallies behind Amakhosi's Skyz Metro FM HUNDREDS of people from Bulawayo thronged Rainbow Hotel in the morning today to suppor...Published: 02 Sep 2014 at 12:07hrs | | by Hangoyapalala waTjibundule
Radio licence hearings move to Bulawayo
The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) is set to hold public hearings for stations vying for commercial radio licences in Bulawayo today and tomorrow. Officials from Fair Talk Commun...Published: 02 Sep 2014 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
New TV channels after digitilisation
BROADCASTING Authority of Zimbabwe (Baz) chairman Dr Tafataona Mahoso has said the country will only start inviting applications for television licences after the country has successfully migrated fro...Published: 23 Aug 2014 at 17:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
May best radio station win licence for Bulawayo
NEWS of the opening of the airwaves with Bulawayo's public getting a chance to meet and interrogate the three radio stations that are vying for the sole licence to operate a commercial radio station i...Published: 29 Jun 2014 at 09:12hrs | | by Raisedon Baya
Ezra 'Tshisa' Sibanda partners Zanu-PF's Obert Mpofu
RADIO legend Ezra "Tshisa" Sibanda could be making a comeback, after Skies FM, which is vying for a commercial radio licence in Bulawayo, was shortlisted with three others for a final round of select...Published: 25 Jun 2014 at 06:42hrs | 7 | by Pamela Shumba and Sifundiso Ndlovu
18 radio applicants shortlisted
The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe has short-listed 18 applicants for local commercial radio licences, among them Zimpapers, that owns one of two private radio station in the country, Star FM....Published: 21 May 2014 at 11:01hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
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