Tuks FM takes Radio Days Africa

Tuks FM will feature prominently at this year’s Radio Days Africa conference, which is Africa’s biggest radio conference.

Programme Manager, Mike Bower, will host a talk about Tuks FM’s award-winning campaign, ‘Hear the Sights’, which won a 2019 Liberty Radio Award for the best radio innovation. Hear the Sights aimed to enhance the listening experience of students at the Prinshof School for the visually impaired by taking them on a sensory journey during a visit to the Pretoria Zoo.

Bower says he is honoured to be given the opportunity to speak at such a prestigious event. “This opportunity is made so much more special by the fact that the topic I get to speak about is something that is very close to the hearts of the Tuks FM staff. We have so much potential to innovate within the youth radio landscape, I think that it is very exciting for other radio professionals to see what we are doing.”

Leanne Kunz, Tuks FM’s Station Manager, will join a panel discussion called ‘What it Takes to Win’, which features representatives from each of the four Station of the Year winners (commercial, community, campus and PBS) at the 2019 Liberty Radio Awards. Kunz says the fact that two Tuks FM representatives will speak at the conference is a massive feather in the station’s cap. “Radio Days Africa features speakers from across the globe who are making their mark or innovating in some way or another, so for us to be included this year is a huge deal and I’m extremely grateful for the opportunity.”

Radio Days Africa, now in its 10th year, is hosted annually in Johannesburg. More than 350 delegates and 60 speakers from across the world attend the conference each year, which caters for a variety of sectors within the radio business.

The conference runs from 3 – 5 July 2019 at the Wits Club in Johannesburg.