/ 20 December 1999

SAPA SELLS RADIO DIVISION

THE country’s national news agency, the South African Press Association, has sold its radio division, Network Radio Services, to multi-media company Dotcom, the two groups announced in a joint statement on Friday. The sale was agreed at a meeting on Friday afternoon. Network Radio Services (NRS) runs Network Radio News, the largest syndicated news service supplying news and sport to the country’s commercial and community radio sectors. The South African Press Association will supply news to Dotcom.