How we checked ZBS Zodiak FM
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 2 things about this entry. We also found 5 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
| What we say | Read from | When |
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Description
The radio service is published as a single page titled "Online Radio", reached from the site's own footer link "Zodiak Radio", carrying an embedded player and nothing else of its own. The operator identifies itself in its footer as "ZODIAK BROADCASTING STATION", trading online as "ZODIAK ONLINE", at ArtBridge House in Lilongwe, under the slogan "Zikachitika, Mumvera Kwa Ife". The site around the player is a news site with National News including regional desks, International News, Politics, Business and Sports sections.
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Zodiak Online / ZODIAK BROADCASTING STATION (zodiakmalawi.com) | 2026 |
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Artists
None. The station publishes no playlist or song history, and its stream carries no track metadata.
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Zodiak Online / ZODIAK BROADCASTING STATION (zodiakmalawi.com) | 2026 |
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Contact route
A telephone number labelled "Text:" in the footer and a support email address, both repeated in the header and footer of every page including the radio page, plus the station's own Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube accounts. No contact page, no form, no studio or request line; the footer's Story Submission link is dead.
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Zodiak Online / ZODIAK BROADCASTING STATION (zodiakmalawi.com) | 2026 |
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Era
Not applicable; this is a speech service.
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Zodiak Online / ZODIAK BROADCASTING STATION (zodiakmalawi.com) | 2026 |
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Music
News and current affairs. Everything the operator publishes is news, regional news, politics, business and sport, and its slogan is about hearing events from them first.
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Zodiak Online / ZODIAK BROADCASTING STATION (zodiakmalawi.com) | 2026 |
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Language
The published site is entirely in English, with every article, heading and menu label in English. The station's own slogan, carried in the footer of every page including the radio page, is in Chichewa: "Zikachitika, Mumvera Kwa Ife". So Chichewa is part of how the broadcaster addresses its audience in its own words, but its website publishes no Chichewa programme listing, bulletin or article from which I could confirm how much of the on-air output is in Chichewa. I have therefore left the stored language code at English rather than change it on a slogan alone, and I am recording the Chichewa finding here so it is not lost.
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Zodiak Online / ZODIAK BROADCASTING STATION (zodiakmalawi.com) | 2026 |
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Kind
Live continuous stream from a hosted player platform, with no schedule, no presenter credit and no programme description published to place around it. The stream is a 32 kbps AAC+ mount, which is a low bitrate consistent with a speech service.
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Zodiak Online / ZODIAK BROADCASTING STATION (zodiakmalawi.com) | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
The site's whole "Information" and "Quick Links" footer, About Us, Editorial Policy, Subscribe, Advertise With Us, Terms & Conditions, Rate Cards, Opportunities and Story Submission, is nine links that all point at "#", and the footer's own "Zodiak Tv" link returns 404. So the operator publishes no about page, no editorial policy and no rate card at all, which is why almost every field above is empty rather than unread.
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Zodiak Online / ZODIAK BROADCASTING STATION (zodiakmalawi.com) | 2026 |
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Where
Lilongwe, Malawi, from the address published in its own footer: ArtBridge House, Area 47, Sect. 5, P/Bag 312, Lilongwe, Malawi. No frequency is published anywhere on the site.
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Zodiak Online / ZODIAK BROADCASTING STATION (zodiakmalawi.com) | 2026 |
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On air
none. No person is named on either the radio page or the site root, and the footer's About Us and Editorial Policy links do not go anywhere.
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Zodiak Online / ZODIAK BROADCASTING STATION (zodiakmalawi.com) | 2026 |
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Programmes
none. There is no schedule anywhere. I checked the site root, the radio page, and the footer links, and I probed /about-us, /about, /schedule, /radio-schedule, /programmes, /programs, /presenters and /our-team, all of which return 404.
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Zodiak Online / ZODIAK BROADCASTING STATION (zodiakmalawi.com) | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
|---|---|---|
| homepage url | https://zodiakmalawi.com/live-radio → https://zodiakmalawi.com/ | The stored value is a sub-path, /live-radio, which is the player page only. The operator's own root answers HTTP 200 on the same domain and is where the operator identifies itself: its footer carries the address "ArtBridge House, Area 47, Sect. 5, P/Bag 312, Lilongwe, Malawi", the name "ZODIAK BROADCASTING STATION", the trading name "ZODIAK ONLINE" and the Chichewa slogan "Zikachitika, Mumvera Kwa Ife". The root is the better stored value because it is the operator's own home rather than one widget page. The /live-radio path stays useful as the listening page and is recorded as the source in the findings, and it is reached from a footer link the operator labels "Zodiak Radio". Note that the operator publishes no about page: the footer's About Us, Editorial Policy, Advertise With Us, Rate Cards and Story Submission links all point at "#", and /about-us, /about and /live-tv all return 404. |
| homepage url
confirmed
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https://zodiakmalawi.com/ → https://zodiakmalawi.com/ | The stored value is a sub-path, /live-radio, which is the player page only. The operator's own root answers HTTP 200 on the same domain and is where the operator identifies itself: its footer carries the address "ArtBridge House, Area 47, Sect. 5, P/Bag 312, Lilongwe, Malawi", the name "ZODIAK BROADCASTING STATION", the trading name "ZODIAK ONLINE" and the Chichewa slogan "Zikachitika, Mumvera Kwa Ife". The root is the better stored value because it is the operator's own home rather than one widget page. The /live-radio path stays useful as the listening page and is recorded as the source in the findings, and it is reached from a footer link the operator labels "Zodiak Radio". Note that the operator publishes no about page: the footer's About Us, Editorial Policy, Advertise With Us, Rate Cards and Story Submission links all point at "#", and /about-us, /about and /live-tv all return 404. || the field already held this value |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
|---|---|
| The unrendered template token "{loadmoduleid ? string:? string:? string:16 ? ? ?}" printed as visible text near the foot of the radio page | It is a broken content-management placeholder, not content.
source |
| The stream's icy-genre "Rock" and icy-name "Streaming by Securenet Systems Cirrus(R)" | Both are the hosting platform's defaults, and the genre flatly contradicts the operator's own news output, so neither describes this station.
source |
| Everything belonging to the television and online-news arms | The operator runs Zodiak Tv and a news desk on the same domain, and the radio page renders the full site's news around the player, so I took only what the footer attributes to Zodiak Radio.
source |
| The International News section's contents | Its articles link out to another broadcaster's site, so they are not this operator's own output.
source |
| The footer telephone number and email address | Published on every page, but I do not copy numbers or addresses into this file.
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: ZBS Zodiak FM — listed via Radio Browser · https://zodiakmalawi.com/live-radio