Pwani FM

Pwani FM is the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation's Swahili station for the Coast, made for listeners from Mombasa up to Malindi. It speaks the Kiswahili of the coast and carries news, public information, music and talk.

KBC started Pwani FM in 2001. It was the second of KBC's regional FM stations, after the Kikuyu station Coro FM went on air in December 2000. Public broadcasting at the Coast is far older than that. In 1954 a regional service called Sauti ya Mvita began broadcasting from Mombasa.

On the coastal dial Pwani FM is up against private broadcasters, among them Royal Media Services' Bahari FM. What it brings is the backing of the national broadcaster, with access to KBC's newsroom and public service content. For many coastal listeners it is also the place to hear national announcements in their own variety of Kiswahili.

Sister KBC services include Radio Taifa, KBC English Service, Coro FM, Kitwek FM, Minto FM, Mwatu FM, Ingo FM, Nosim FM and Ngemi FM. The corporation was set up by an Act of Parliament (Cap 221) and has its head office on Harry Thuku Road, Nairobi.

Pwani FM frequencies, as KBC lists them: Mombasa 104.7 FM and Malindi 93.7 FM. There is no Nairobi frequency, so listeners elsewhere in Kenya, or in the diaspora, can stream Pwani FM on this page.