Radio 702
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| City | Johannesburg |
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| Broadcast area | Gauteng, South Africa |
| Slogan | Your No. 1 News and Talk Station; In Touch, In Tune and Independent |
| Frequency | 92.7 MHz, 106 MHz |
| First air date | 28 June 1980 |
| Format | Adult talk radio, news and information |
| Owner | Primedia |
| Sister stations | CapeTalk, 947, KFM |
| Webcast | www.702.co.za/livestreaming |
| Website | www.702.co.za |
702 is a commercial FM radio station based in Johannesburg, South Africa, broadcasting on FM 92.7 and FM 106 to the greater Gauteng province. The station is also webcast via its website. It claims to be Johannesburg's number one news and talk station, offering news, sport, business and actuality programming and plenty of phone-in debates.
The station itself was established in 1980 and was initially a young adult music station, moving to a talk format in 1988. During South Africa's apartheid era it, and Capital Radio 604, were the only independent sources of broadcast news. The station is owned by Primedia
Until 2006, 702 was broadcast only on 702 kHz AM. In March 2006, it won an application to move to the FM radio frequency, and the first FM broadcast took place on 24 July 2006. The station continued broadcasting on the AM band until 28 June 2007 when it was shut down.
702's sister station is CapeTalk, a Cape Town based AM radio station.
Hot on the heels of the independent radio station Capital Radio 604 broadcasting from the Transkei, which due to technical problems had failed in its bid to serve the lucrative multi-racial audience in the urban areas of South Africa's old southern Transvaal province, Channel 702 was started in 1980 by entrepreneurs Natie and Issie Kirsh in the country's homeland of Bophuthatswana, which like the Transkei was at the time independent of South African rules and regulations. The station's signature line was "In touch, in tune and independent."
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