Rhodes Music Radio campus community station in Makhanda
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Rhodes Music Radio is a campus-based community station located at Rhodes University in Grahamstown/Makhanda. Its official background page says the station was founded in 1981. The same page says RMR was the first campus-based station to be licensed to broadcast legally. It describes the format as youth lifestyle radio with programming that is fun, experimental, challenging and informative. That history makes the station notable within the development of South African campus broadcasting. The site is relevant for monitoring student radio, youth culture and media training in the Eastern Cape.