Coffee on the Rock has been servicing the youth community
of South Africa and the globe for the past 4 years. Coffee on the Rock has been a consistent
entity in providing, gathering and distributing resources to the youth in the
name of the Lord.
Coffee on the Rock has lead the charge in being enhancing
missionaries or rebelutionaries. An “enhancer missionary” is focused on always
showing how much a soul is worth.
As a rebelutionary, we do whatever we must to meet the needs of
the people. We strive to source resources of every element such as monetary and
non-monetary aspects. These resources are then provided to many youth and young
in heart that need it. We are all about taking care and doing something to help
with needs of any kind.
With all the work on ground level we realised that we are only
breaking the surface of reaching the youth and giving them the much needed
education, skills and help that they need. We were only reaching local
communities that we were working in or had a satellite base near. So we then
decided to earnestly start getting COTR Radio off the ground.
Now a youth radio station has always been a dream of Coffee on the
Rock since we started working and operating in 2010. Yet as they all say, In
the Lord’s time will things happen.
Which is exactly what did happen, we started testing the online radio
station in August. All tests were successful, we did not want at anytime our
radio station to go down due to unstable servers and such. I think our IT department
gained a few extra grey clumps of hair during the testing phases.
DJ and Radio presenters are few, but growing as the word of the Radio
spreads, the beauty of this is most DJ’s and Radio presenters supply their
shows on air in the PJ’s – awesome right.
We were so nervous the day we hosted a preview party to a few selected
listeners. Secretly we were hoping for an instant liking and success to it and
praying against an absolute dislike and instant hate. Needless to say it was
not all smooth sailing. On the day of the preview party everything was late.
Some DJ’s did not have enough music uploaded on to the systems in time. Some
radio presenters were delayed by traffic and to make it all worse our software
and some of our systems were not talking to our server properly. Talk about
technology gremlins.
So after about 2 hours of the team running around and pulling hair out
and threatening to jump in front of buses we finally heard the melody of our
first chosen song streaming live over the internet as Coffee on the Rock Radio
started. We were so happy, no words could describe the joyful chaos that
erupted in our Home Office.
All that was left was to receive the feedback from the listeners we
invited to preview which came filtering in within 4 hours after we started and
it was all positive and exciting. EVERYONE loved it. There were a few
suggestions for minor changes which we made and so we all turned our attention
to the 8th of September 2014 when we aired live to the public.
On the morning of the 8th September 2014 we went live
without a hitch and we have been live 24 hours each day since then with a
growing listenership. We are currently sitting with over 50 listeners. Each day has been dedicated to a specific
purpose and all programmes are centred around that day’s purpose. Each week is
a theme that is carried through each day.
Our music selection is predominately aimed at youth but our many young
at heart listeners find the music perfect to their tastes as well.
The Radio station is classed and defined as being a Youth Interaction and Educational radio station. We offer educational, fun and entertaining material with some uplifting music from both local and international talent. We are the station that brings you all the news of youth in Action Changing the World.
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