98.4 Midlands is a privately owned provincial commercial radio station broadcasting from

Gweru Gweru is a city in central Zimbabwe. Near the geographical centre of the country. It is on the centre of Midlands Province. Originally an area known to the Ndebele as "The Steep Place" because of the Gweru River's high banks, in 1894 it beca ...

, Zimbabwe. It is accessible on FM 98.4 MHz in the city of Gweru and greater parts of the Midlands Province of

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and ...

. The station first began broadcasting in 2016, with live broadcasts beginning in 2017. A Gweru-based musician interviewed by the Zimbabwe ''

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'' praised 98.4 Midlands, saying that it would highlight local musical talent that had previously been overshadowed. The

Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) is the state-owned broadcaster in Zimbabwe. It was established as the Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation (RBC), taking its current name in 1980. Like the RBC before it, the ZBC has been accused of bein ...

launched a second commercial radio station in Gweru in 2018.

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