Signal FM

88.1 signal FM (Radio Kabonero) is Eastern Uganda`s No. One live Radio and the best Radio brand in Eastern Region with well-blended programmes done by a team of young professional broadcasters. Signal FM is a unique commercial FM station broadcasting from Bugisu, the land of plenty. And it is based in Mbale town,the commercial capital of the middle Eastern region of Uganda.

Mbale the major eastern city is situated 261km away from Uganda’s capital city Kampala. Katinvuma Broadcasts & General Limited,a private limited liability company based in Uganda,East Africa, operates signal FM.

The offices and studios are conveniently located at Plot 2 Court Road, Bugisu Cooperative Union Building (B.C.U).The programmes are terrestrially linked from the studios in Mbale town to a 2kw transmitter in a 12 kilometre line of sight at Buwalasi UTV mast erected 75metres high on an altitude of 1560 metres above sea level.

The mast site was strategically chosen carefully by the then TV/Radio European engineers as the best TV/FM transmission site that covers all the eastern districts of Uganda and beyond satisfactorily though with fringes /shadows in a few areas shielded by Mt. Elgon steep ranges. In our famous house style, the station is locally known as “Signal Embooko”