VOWfm and DFL finalists in MTN Radio Awards

Wits campus radio station Voice of Wits (VOWfm) and the Wits School of Arts programme Drama for Life (DfL) have been nominated for the 2013 MTN Radio Awards. Wits has seven nominations in these prestigious national radio awards.

VOWfm is nominated in the following categories: Breakfast Show (Campus) for The Morning Fixx hosted by FixxtheDJ and Botlhale Baitsiwe; Business and Finance Show category "The Bizz Buzz" got a nod; Music Show (Campus) category "Living Electro" hosted by Zweli B Magic; News and Actuality Presenter (Community and Campus) Tsholo Gontse Semenya received a nomination for her show The Bizz Buzz; News and Actuality Show (Community) the DFL and VOW FM initiative "Lifebeats – Suicide" show hosted by India Stone and Lesley Nkosi; Afternoon Drive Presenter (Campus) by Zweli ‘BMagic’ Mbhele; and Neo ‘FixxtheDJ’ Rathebe received a nomination for Breakfast Presenter (Campus).

The shortlisting of the nominees is conducted by a panel of judges respected for their experience and expertise.

“It is a great achievement for the station to have received the nominations. Especially since it is the first time that the station has ventured into these awards and we have only been on-air for three years,” says Mike Smurthwaite, VOWfm's Station Manager.

“We entered 16 pieces of audio for various shows and products at the station. To get half on the shortlist is amazing. Now we hope that we can win one or two.”

The DFL production Life.Beats, highlights human rights and social justice, transformation, diversity and gender issues. The specific show that has been nominated by the jury deals with rising suicide rates at South African universities. 

The awards ceremony takes place at the Sandton Convention Centre on 13 April 2013.

Learn more about VOWfm at www.vowfm.co.za

To listen to past ‘Life.Beats’ shows, visit http://www.dramaforlife.co.za/content/page/life.beats-radio

For more information about the MTN Radio Awards, please visit http://www.mtnradioawards.com/