What is on 88.5 Rock FM at every hour of the week, who presents it, and every way to listen — in Berbice on the dial, or anywhere in the world online.
88.5 Rock FM went on air on 29 March 2014 as the first radio station transmitting from the county of Berbice. It runs a full week of live, presenter-led programming from the Little Rock studio in New Amsterdam.
This is that week, written out in full. Times are Guyana time (GYT, UTC−4 — Guyana does not observe daylight saving, so the schedule is the same all year).
Monday to Friday
7:30 – 10:00 a.m. · Morning Spice
with Maximum & Delon
The breakfast show, and the busiest block on the station. Morning Spice carries people through getting ready, the school run and the opening of shops — music, chat and the day’s business. If you are listening from abroad, this is the one that sounds most like home.
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. · Spicy
with Spicy & Maximum
A single, distinct hour: the Spicy meditation and information shows, one for each day of the week. Slower than the show either side of it, and deliberately so.
11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. · Lunch Munch
with Shakala & DJ Slata
Three hours through the middle of the day, and the show most likely to be playing where people work. Team Lunch Munch broadcasts live from 10 Street as well as from the studio, which makes it the station’s most visible programme — the one people walk past.
2:00 – 4:00 p.m. · The Meltdown
with Lovena & DJ Slata
The afternoon block, running into the start of the school and work exodus.
4:00 – 6:00 p.m. · No Rush
with Selector Genius & Delon
Drive time, at the pace the name suggests. Selector Genius handles the music.
6:00 – 9:00 p.m. · Get Loose
with Keifer & Shakala
Three hours of evening programming — the station’s highest-energy weekday block.
9:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. · The Nightshift Owls 🦉
with Elijah & DJ Smally
Late-night radio, for shift workers, students, drivers and everyone still awake. It runs to midnight.
Saturday
6:00 – 9:00 a.m. · Morning Ginger
The weekend starts early in Berbice — market day, and the station starts an hour and a half earlier than it does on a weekday.
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. · Talk Out Loud
The TOL Talk Show. Three hours of talk radio: issues, callers and conversation. This is the station’s discussion programme, and the one to catch if you want to hear what Berbice is actually arguing about this week.
12:00 – 4:00 p.m. · Lunch Crunch
Saturday afternoon, four hours of it.
Sunday
6:00 – 9:00 a.m. · Morning Glory
The Sunday morning programme.
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. · Soul Regeneration
Sunday mid-morning — the reflective block.
12:00 – 4:00 p.m. · Smooth Rotation
Sunday afternoon: the easiest listening of the week, running to four.
How to listen
On the dial in Berbice: 88.5 FM.
Online, anywhere: press play on the 88.5 Rock FM live player on this website. The stream runs in the background while you use your phone, and the lock-screen controls work.
On your phone as an app: the 88.5 Rock FM app installs to your home screen.
On video: when the station broadcasts live on camera, the video stream appears on the home page from the station’s Twitch channel, and past streams and full shows are on the 88.5 Rock FM YouTube channel — including complete editions of Spicy, Lunch Munch, The TOL Talk Show, Maximum Mix, and archive editions of The Rush Hour from 2020.
Getting on the air yourself
Two ways, both free.
Send a greeting. The Rock Room is the station’s live greetings wall at lrtvs.gy/rockroom. Post a greeting — with a song request if you like — tick “read this on air”, and when a DJ reads it you get a notification telling you who read it and when. There is a full guide to how the Rock Room works.
Call in. Talk Out Loud on Saturday mornings takes callers. The station numbers are 592-333-4758, 592-333-3758 and 592-333-4445, and WhatsApp is +592 741-4911.
A note on the schedule
Live radio moves. Public holidays, elections, outside broadcasts, cricket and community events all displace the normal schedule, and Little Rock Studio produces live event broadcasts that pre-empt regular programming when something is happening in New Amsterdam.
The version above is the station’s published guide as it stands. If you are planning around a particular hour — to catch a show, or to place an advertisement in it — confirm on the day by messaging +592 741-4911.
Where the shows are made
Everything on this page comes out of Little Rock Studio in New Amsterdam, which also produces the programmes on LRTVS Channel 10 and the station’s outside broadcasts. You can see the studio’s output — school tours of the station, community announcements, live events — on the Little Rock Studio page.
Sources & further reading
- Little Rock Guyana, the 88.5 Rock FM programme guide — the station’s own published schedule, from which every show and time below is taken.
- Little Rock Guyana, Little Rock Studio — where the shows are produced.
- Naomi E. Christie, Creating a Legacy — for the station’s launch date, 29 March 2014.
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Little Rock Guyana
Phone
592-333-4758 · 592-333-3758 · 592-333-4445
Where we are
10 Main and Church Streets, New Amsterdam, Berbice, Guyana