Kasapah wins community radio licence

Greenwich Kasapah has been granted a new community radio licence by Ofcom.

The new station for Greenwich and South East london, which we first reported on last October, was one of seven that Ofcom announced today had been successful in their applications to operate not-for-profit, community radio projects.

Greenwich Kasapah will be primarily speech-based and specifically target the African communities in and around Greenwich. Kasapah, meaning good or decent talk in a Ghanaian language, has been given a slot on the medium wave (AM) band.

Sixteen other applications for licences were unsuccessful, including one for Greenwich-based, Talk Africa Radio.