Rakita FM Live Streaming

Most radio stations outlive their presenters. This one outlived the government programme that created it.

Rakita broadcasts on a single frequency across the Klang Valley and Seremban, in Malay, under a name that simply means our radio. The live stream is playing on this page – free, with nothing to install and no account to create.

The Station That Outlived Its Programme

The frequency started life as iM4U FM, which went on air on 15 September 2014.

It was set up under a national youth initiative – 1Malaysia for Youth, shortened to iM4U – and run by Genmedia. The brief was urban young Malaysians, with a playlist weighted around seventy per cent Malay and thirty per cent English.

The station stopped broadcasting in 2018, when the programme behind it wound down. Rather than the frequency going quiet for good, it returned on 8 January 2019 under new ownership – Radio Kita Sdn Bhd – and a new name.

Why It’s Called Rakita

The name is a contraction of the operator’s own: Radio Kita. In Malay, kita means us – the inclusive we, the one that takes in the person being spoken to.

It is a quieter kind of name than the one it replaced. iM4U carried a national programme’s branding with it; Rakita carries nothing beyond the suggestion that the station belongs to whoever happens to be listening.

For a station that had just survived the end of the initiative that funded it, that is a fairly pointed choice of word.

One Frequency

Rakita broadcasts on 107.9 MHz, covering the Klang Valley and Seremban.

That is a single frequency and a compact footprint – comfortably the smallest of any station on this part of the dial. It makes Rakita a city station rather than a national one, which carries its own advantages: a tighter audience, a clearer sense of who is actually listening, and no obligation to sound like it is addressing the entire country at once.

Malay, and Aimed Young

Programming runs entirely in Malay.

The audience it was built for was urban and young, and that focus carried over from the iM4U years into the station as it stands. That is a listenership which has largely moved to streaming and personal playlists, which makes a conventional FM station still going after them a deliberate choice rather than an obvious one.

Where 107.9 Doesn’t Reach

Outside the Klang Valley and Seremban, 107.9 gets you nothing at all. That covers most of Malaysia.

This is where a stream matters more than it does for a national broadcaster. Anyone in Penang, Johor, Sabah, Sarawak or overseas who wants Rakita has no alternative to listening online.

It runs in a browser on a phone, tablet or laptop, with no receiver and no frequency involved – the same station, minus the geography.

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Conclusion

Stations attached to government programmes usually disappear along with them. This one changed hands, changed names, and held on to the frequency.

Leave it playing and you get what came through all of that: Malay radio for the Klang Valley, on 107.9, under a name that just means ours.