(Mon - Thurs) 6 pm - 10 pm (Friday) (Mon - Thurs) (Mon - Thurs) (Friday) with Aaron Masemola & Palesa Lemeke Harrison mkhize with Karabo Hobo (news) with Aaron Masemola & Palesa Lemeke with Karabo Hobo (news) Formerly known as "Radio 5", the station developed from a commercial station, LM Radio, which had been broadcasting to a South African youth audience from Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) in neighbouring Mozambique.

Radio 5 broadcast in the medium wave band from transmitters at Welgedacht, Maraisburg, Pietersburg, Durban, Bloemfontein, Brackenfell, Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown.

Initially the government-controlled SABC required Radio 5 to be bilingual with an equal weighting of English and Afrikaans.

Russell made the presenters responsible for their own success or failure with the promise that, when their year's contract expired, they would be free to renegotiate based on the audience the shows delivered.

The show ended in 2014 when Cliff began an online radio platform, to which all of his team, save DuPlessis & Modisane, followed him.

He was replaced by Roger Goode, who hosted the show alongside Robbie Kruse on Sports, Sureshnie Rieder on News and Zanele Potelwa (nicknamed 'Young Boomerang') on traffic.

Dan Corder assumed the role of host on the Breakfast Show in April 2021, accompanied by Thabo Baloyi delivering the latest news updates, Xoli Zondo covering sports, and Marli van Eeden providing traffic reports.

5FM weekday mid-morning presenters include Rob Vember, Poppy Ntshongwana and prior to their Drive Shows, Thando Thabethe & Nick Hamman.

In May 2020, Msizi James and Stephanie Be paired up to present the Mid Mornings on 5 show during the brunchtime slot.

"The Thabooty Drive" featured Durbanite Msizi James as the co-host, Sibaphiwe Matiyela (and later, Nadia Romanos) on News and Duran Collett on Sports.

This is a fresh show with genre-specific charts each day highlighting the best local indie, pop, hip hop and dance songs.

Before 2019, the Weekend Breakfast show, A Cuppa JT was hosted by Justin Toerien, with Nadia Romanos & Jude van Wyk on News & Sports respectively.

A 2023-line up change saw Retshepile Seakamela take over the reins of 5Weekend Breakfast, retaining Aaron Masemola on the sports desk and introducing Palesa Lemeke as a Newsreader.