About Us


Metro FM is a mentor and guide for youthful urban adults that embrace a pragmatic and successful life to actively transform with their constantly changing environment.

Frame of reference point of difference

Metro FM is music focused progressive lifestyle brand. It epitomizes black success and leadership, with attitude. Its listeners are high achievers with a lot of style, confidence, potential and the enviable ability to feel at home in modern South Africa.

The brand tone and manner

  • Quality – Fun
  • Black – Global
  • Cosmopolitan – Confident
  • Full of Attitude – Exclusive
  • Stylish – Trendsetter
  • Progressive

Play list genres include

  • R&B
  • Hip Hop
  • Kwaito
  • House
  • Contemporary Jazz
  • Gospel

Service offerings

  •  Entertainment – music, features and competitions
  •  Information – news, weather, sport, financial, and traffic reports
  •   Community – fundraising, sponsorships, events
  •  Advertising platform
  •   Lifestyle – reflect the social, economic, developmental, fashion

Lastest Stats:

  • Over 4 Million Listeners and Counting
  • Over 1.2 Million Facebook Likes and Counting
  • Over 800 thousand Twitter Followers and Counting

Station Properties:

  • Metro FM Weekend – Shut Down
  • Up Close and Personal
  • Music Lounge
  • I AM Woman Experience
  • Birthday Celebration
  • Metro FM Music Awards.
  • Metro FM Heatwave
  • Love Movement (picnic)

Core Age Group:  25 – 34yrs

Secondary Age Group: 16-24 LSM 6+

Epicenter (yr): 30 yr old LSM 7+

METRO FM is headquartered at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in Auckland Park, Johannesburg.

Station Footprint

Transmitters & Frequencies

Gauteng
Johannesburg 96.4 MHz
Pretoria 92.4 MHz
KZN
Durban 93.0 MHz
Durban North 107.9 MHz
Eshowe 90.3 MHz
Nongoma 89.8 MHz
Mpumalanga
Middelburg 100.3 MHz
Northern Province
Potgietersrus 106.7 MHz
Western Cape
Sea Point 91.7 MHz
Table Mountain 88.6 MHz
Tygerberg 93.0 MHz
Eastern Cape
East London 107.7 MHz
Parsons Hill 87.9 MHz
Port Elizabeth 100.5 MHz
Free State
Bloemfontein 98.1 MHz