Feba has teamed up with 2K Plus International Sports Media for the 2010 FIFA World Cup to provide news, comment and analysis, interviews, testimonies from Christian players and post-match reports. Programme presenters also capture the culture and celebration from South Africa with news from big screen Fan Parks and groups involved in Christian service.
Loftus stadium 2K Plus is producing Up For The Corner, a new radio programme for football fans during the 2010 World Cup, produced in Johannesburg daily Monday to Saturday from 9 June to 12 July. The programme is designed to bring listeners around the world a Christian perspective to the sport, culture and community events in South Africa during the World Cup. In addition to radio broadcasts, the show can also be heard online at www.upforthecorner.com.
With international broadcast partners Feba South Africa and HCJB Global, 2K Plus is also producing programmes in French and Spanish. “2K Plus works essentially in partnership,” says Adrian Barnard, 2K Plus CEO. “It is wonderful to work with Feba and HCJB producing programmes for the World Cup in French and Spanish, and TWR have gone the extra mile to provide our facilities in Johannesburg. We pray that our partnership together for the Gospel will also be a strong witness as well as the content in the programmes.”
French reports from Feba South Africa
“This is Jonah Tshilenga from Feba Radio’s studios in South Africa, reporting on the 2010 Soccer World Cup.” With the advent of a great sporting event such as the FIFA World Cup, Feba Radio South Africa is making use of a great opportunity to proclaim the Christian worldview through the captured testimonies of soccer heroes, right into the uttermost corners of the Francophone world.
“I am very excited about this project…” says Jonah Tshilenga, Programme Producer of the special World Cup programme, Afrique 2010, “...because Feba Radio is taking the lead by supplying Christian broadcasters on the continent with programmes that will not only focus their attention on the ’beautiful game’ but more so on the beautiful God of creation and salvation. I hope to challenge them… I want to see both managers and their listeners reflect on the programme contents and strive to live wholesome lives.”
Uploading his football-flavoured Gospel programmes onto the website of 2K Plus, radio stations in Burkina Faso, Gabon, Cameroon, Ivory Coast and the DRC download it onto their schedules for broadcasting.
“With the FIFA World Cup happening in South Africa, Feba is at the centre,” says Jonah, “and this is exciting because never before has the Christian content that we are producing on the World Cup been made available to radio stations in Francophone Africa.”
“With these programmes French-speaking football lovers will receive much more than mere updates on the scores over the radio. Because now they will hear for themselves the voices of their football heroes! Heroes sharing testimonies of how their lives were touched by the Gospel of Jesus Christ!”
On air in northeast Africa and Middle East
Feba’s partner stations, Power FM in Uganda and Baraka FM in Kenya, are also using the 2K Plus scripts. At Baraka FM they are doing voice overs in Swahili from the English programme.
Our programme partners in another northeast Africa country are using the Spirit of Football scripts and translating them into two major tribal languages in the area. The Feba Middle East team are also downloading a lot of the scripts for use in their Arabic programming.