{"id":156219,"date":"2017-02-09T08:45:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T06:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=156219"},"modified":"2017-02-09T08:45:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T06:45:26","slug":"big-changes-to-94-7-radio-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/156219\/big-changes-to-94-7-radio-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Big changes to 94.7 radio lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>94.7&#8217;s breakfast show host Darren &#8220;Whackhead&#8221; Simpson will be moving to a later slot, replaced by Anele Mdoda.<\/p>\n<p>According to Simpson, speaking on his breakfast show, it was time for a change, as his working hours were not great for his family life.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson will now be moving to the afternoon drive show, which is currently being hosted by Mdoda. Mdoda in turn will take over the breakfast show.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.za\/2017\/02\/09\/anele-mdoda-takes-over-947s-breakfast-show-as-darren-simpson-mo\/\">Mdoda said<\/a><\/strong> she was ready to take on the challenge of breakfast radio, which is one of the most important slots on the air across all stations.<\/p>\n<p>Mdoda made her debut in 94.7&#8217;s evening show, before moving to 5FM, and ultimately returning to 94.7 in 2012. She also host her own talkshow in SABC 3 called Real Talk with Anele.<\/p>\n<p>According to 94.7, it is happy to shake up its lineup, while keeping the personalities in its books.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0latest data from the\u00a0Broadcast Research Council in South Africa (BRC) shows that 94.7 is the 13th largest commercial radio station in the country, with an audience size of 952,000 people.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to This is how many people are listening to South Africa\u2019s most popular radio stations\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/145469\/this-is-how-many-people-are-listening-to-south-africas-most-popular-radio-stations\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is how many people are listening to South Africa\u2019s most popular radio stations<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>94.7&#8217;s breakfast show host Darren &#8220;Whackhead&#8221; Simpson will be moving to a later slot, replaced by Anele Mdoda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":123475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-156219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156221,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156219\/revisions\/156221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}