Radio Orion was a national FM radio station in South Africa, operated by the South African Broadcasting Corporation. It replaced the All Night Service on 1 March 1983, and was on the air for ten years until its final broadcast on 31 May 1993. The main host was Robin Alexander. The station broadcast at night, beginning at 9:30 PM—following the transmission of Radio Suid-Afrika—and continued until dawn.[1][2] Its format included "a wide variety of music, phone-in shows and topical discussion."[3]

Radio Orion
  • South Africa
Broadcast area
South Africa
Ownership
OperatorSouth African Broadcasting Corporation

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  1. Burns, Yvonne (1990). Media Law. Butterworths. p. 30. ISBN 0-409-01342-0.
  2. Keyter, Elise, ed. (1989). "Radio and Television". South Africa 1989/90: Official Yearbook of the Republic of South Africa (Fifteenth ed.). Bureau for Information. p. 673. ISBN 978-0-7970-1729-0. OCLC 1766463.
  3. De Beer, Arrie S., ed. (1993). Mass Media for the Nineties: The South African Handbook of Mass Communication. J. L. van Schaik. pp. 130–31. ISBN 0-627-01837-8. OCLC 246925703.