OFM, the sound of your life, is proud to announce its triumphant sweep at the Bloemfontein Courant Best of Bloemfontein Readers’ Choice Awards 2025, taking home three prestigious accolades: Best local radio station, best local radio show – Good Morning Breakfast – and best local radio personality, Shandor Potgieter.

The annual awards celebrate excellence across the City of Roses, recognising businesses and individuals who make Bloemfontein truly exceptional. OFM’s wins stand as a testament to the station’s deep connection with its listeners, its commitment to local storytelling, and its passion for delivering engaging, relatable, and entertaining content.

“It is a great privilege for OFM to be recognised as winners in three categories! Thank you, Bloemfontein, for listening to OFM daily, supporting our initiatives, and making us part of your daily routine,” said OFM’s sales and marketing manager Anchen Lintvelt.

Tim Thabethe, OFM’s programme manager, added: “These wins are a remarkable acknowledgment. An achievement that the OFM team has worked hard for. We thank our listeners, and all who voted in favour of OFM. We endeavour to remain the sound of your life in Bloemfontein and all of Central South Africa.”

Why OFM

OFM, the Sound of Your Life, is Central South Africa’s premier commercial radio station, offering a mix of music, news, and entertainment. The station celebrates 39 years in the broadcasting industry this year. OFM is part of the Central Media Group, with its head office in Bloemfontein.

The station serves the affluent SEM 7-10 economically active marketplace with a broadcast footprint across the Free State, Northern Cape, southern Gauteng, and North West. OFM is synonymous with the people of Central South Africa, and includes a full spectrum of listeners, from urban working moms and dads to corporate professionals, as well as rural communities and agricultural producers.

The station has an incredibly loyal and supportive audience. OFM enjoys one of the highest occurrences of time spent listening to the radio in South Africa. This is achieved by the station’s great music offerings – such as playing listeners their favourite songs on the Request Network and counting down Central South Africa’s 30 biggest hits on the Central SA Top 30.

OFM offers several niche features – including a dedicated agricultural programme with three additional agricultural news updates a day, as well as a dedicated business programme.

Sport is close to OFM listeners’ hearts and is what brings much of Central South Africa together. The station is a proud partner, sponsor, and supporter of the Cheetahs, Griquas and Leopards rugby team as well as the Knights, Heat and Dragons cricket team. OFM is committed to living the real good life, while at the same time helping Central South Africans to live their best lives.

OFM skitter met driekuns by Best of Bloemfontein-toekennings 2025
 
OFM, die klank van jou lewe, is trots daarop om sy drie gesogte toekennings by die Bloemfontein Courant Best of Bloemfontein Readers’ Choice Awards 2025 aan te kondig: Beste plaaslike radiostasie, beste plaaslike radioprogram – Good Morning Breakfast – en beste plaaslike radiopersoonlikheid, Shandor Potgieter.
 
Die jaarlikse toekennings vier uitnemendheid dwarsoor Bloemfontein en erken ondernemings en individue wat die stad werklik uitsonderlik maak. OFM se erkenning getuig van die radiostasie se diepe verbintenis aan sy luisteraars, sy toewyding om plaaslike stories te vertel, en sy passie om boeiende, herkenbare en vermaaklike inhoud te lewer.
 
“Dit is ’n groot voorreg vir OFM om as wenners in drie kategorieë erken te word! Dankie, Bloemfontein, dat julle daagliks na OFM luister, ons inisiatiewe ondersteun en ons deel maak van julle daaglikse roetine,” het Anchen Lintvelt, OFM se verkoop- en bemarkingsbestuurder, gesê.
 
Tim Thabethe, OFM se programbestuurder, het bygevoeg: “Hierdie pluimpies is ’n merkwaardige erkenning. Dit is ’n prestasie waarvoor die OFM-span hard gewerk het. Ons bedank ons luisteraars en almal wat vir OFM gestem het. Ons streef daarna om die klank van julle lewe in Bloemfontein en die hele Sentraal-Suid-Afrika te bly.”
 
Vir meer inligting, kontak marketing@ofm.co.za.
 

Waarom OFM

OFM, die klank van jou lewe, is Sentraal-Suid-Afrika se voorste handelsradiostasie, wat ’n verskeidenheid musiek, nuus en vermaak bied. Die stasie vier vanjaar reeds 39 jaar in die uitsaaiwese. OFM is deel van die Central Media Group, met sy hoofkantoor in Bloemfontein.

Die stasie bedien die welvarende ekonomies aktiewe SEM 7-10-mark met ’n uitsaaigebied wat die Vrystaat, Noord-Kaap, Suid-Gauteng en Noordwes insluit. OFM is sinoniem met die mense van Sentraal-Suid-Afrika, en sluit ’n volle spektrum van luisteraars in, van stedelike werkende ouers, tot korporatiewe professionele persone, sowel as landelike gemeenskappe en landbouprodusente.

Die stasie het ’n ongelooflike lojale en ondersteunende gehoor. OFM se luisteraars bestee van die meeste tyd wat luisteraars in Suid-Afrika spandeer om radio te luister. Dit word bereik deur die stasie se gepaste musiekaanbiedinge – luisteraars kan hul gunstelingliedjies op die Request Network versoek en op Saterdae inskakel om saam Sentraal-Suid-Afrika se 30 grootste treffers op die Central SA Top 30 af te tel.

OFM bied verskeie nisprogramme aan – insluitend ’n toegewyde landbouprogram met drie bykomende landbounuusberigte per dag, asook ’n toegewyde sakeprogram.

Sport lê OFM-luisteraars na aan die hart en dit is wat baie Sentraal-Suid-Afrikaners bymekaar bring. Die stasie is ’n trotse vennoot, borg en ondersteuner van die Cheetahs-, Griekwas- en Luiperds-rugbyspan, asook die Knights-, Heat- en Dragons-krieketspan. OFM is daartoe verbind om ’n werklik goeie lewe te lei, en terselfdertyd Sentraal-Suid-Afrikaners te help om hul beste lewens te lei.