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VOC GEARS UP FOR NEW SOUND

Every now and then it is necessary to shake things up a bit, to make a few changes that makes life interesting once more. All the more so when you are in a broadcasting medium where your audience tends to listen to you all day and expect you to cover the whole world for them in 24 hours. Under those circumstances it is easy to get bored with the same old things.

So here at VOC we have the tendency to let the wind of change blow through our programs once a year in order to do some spring-cleaning. A year ago we also made changes ? if you remember correctly, we introduced News & Insight and Newsbeat among others. Now it is time for more change and next Tuesday, the third of February is D-day. In truth, it is not really major changes ? just a lengthy list of small changes that, when put together, will give VOC a whole new sound between 6am and 6pm.

For one, you will hear three more news bulletins per day including headlines at 9am, 4pm and a round up of the day?s news at 11pm. This takes our hard news coverage in the last year of 70 minutes a day up to a total of 1 hour and 15 minutes, including Newsbeat twice a day.

Some of those changes have already been enforced. Our Bumper to Bumper traffic man, Sawmiet Moos, now hosts the Daybreaker Show between 6 and 7am, taking over from Boeta Jamiel Wallace. This show still brings you the Classified Ads and newspaper headlines, but sports a new presenter, new name and new jingle.

Boeta Jamiel has already taken over as solitary host of the Breakfast Show between 7 and 9am, dealing with the hard news stories of the morning. This show with its financial, traffic and community news inserts also sports a new jingle.

Our new debate program Open Line @ 9 hosted by myself and Boeta Jamiel runs between 9 and 10am and includes experts and the public in an open debate on issues that we hope will affect you. This program has already been running successfully as a trial for a few weeks and now only sports a new look.

This week you are introduced to our Community Forum presenter, Ayesha Laatoe, who like Boeta Jamiel, steps out of night radio into daytime community radio. Ayesha will now host a new program called 10-to-12, taking over the former WWT from Sulayla Appleby. While this program has a new name, jingle and presenter, its content is not much different.

From 10 to 11am you can listen to the Housewives? Hour including a new sponsored cooking program, Let?s Cook with Cas Abrahams on Mondays. In the second hour, we talk to the experts on issues like empowerment, parenting and medical matters with Netcare. The popular Q & A remains untouched at 11am on Thursdays.

The high powered actuality show Newsbeat has run with great success this last year between 12 and 12.45pm. It includes our sound and beat reports and was extended late last year to round off Drivetime at 5.45pm with a second installment.

Our kiddies program Jolly Juniors will in the near future also include a change when we make use of a variety of crèche teachers to present the program. We are hoping that this too would give us a new sound at 1.30pm.

Between 2 and 4pm, we have a completely new sound. Sulayla Appleby hosts a new program, Talk @ 2 which includes the dedications of the former Easy Listening. But apart from specializing in exclusive new music, the show will also give you an opportunity to call in and tell us What?s on your mind after 3pm.

A main problem area has been our youth program and one of our concerns was that the current program was not scheduled at the right time. As a result, Youth World has now been replaced by the popular Say it like it is for the youth with Idris Khamisa and will be broadcast at 6pm on alternate Wednesday and Tuesday evenings.

Drivetime remains unaffected, accept for a new jingle and the introduction of news headlines at 4pm. This show has developed into a specialist program dealing with international issues, scooping many other radio stations on some of the issues we have covered.

The one change that has been made on weekends refers to Sunday Live where Faiek Abrahams comes back into the breakfast slot, relieving our sport specialist, Boeta Ismail Jacobs and Yusuf Gaidien of this early morning Sunday show.

There are also other things to be on the lookout for ? new jingles for most shows, a new station ID may even be in the offing, a new way of starting and ending our broadcasts, including duas and messages for the day, as well as a new range of athaans that will be heard after 3 February.

But there is also something for you to gain from these changes ? apart from new sounds on air. We will be launching a special competition next week, giving away three prizes a day for the lucky caller who can mention as many of these new changes our station management will be introducing in a period of 15 seconds. So stay tuned for those details next week.

It is important to note that these changes are not made just for the sake of change. Every complaint, every compliment and feedback you have provided us either directly or via our staff is being taken into account when station management does its quality control of that which is broadcast to you. But to make this process even more effective, we will also be introducing the VOC Comment Line. This direct number will allow you to call us directly to lodge your complaints, compliments or suggestions on what you hear on air. This feedback will be documented and form the basis of how we monitor our output. That number is 4423509.

We are only too aware of our challenges in community radio, but we are hoping that by putting mechanisms such as these in place and by making the changes you yourself have requested where we find it to be valid and practical, that we are taking some steps to improve your listening pleasure.

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