Addressing more than 40 Radio VOP correspondents here this week Executive Director, John Masuku, said: "Yes, we have applied for an operating licence. We are waiting to see what will happen.”
The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe has the final say on issuing broadcasting licences in Zimbabwe.
Radio VOP is among three independent but unlicensed radio stations currently operating in Zimbabwe, where the state-controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation Holdings Limited has a monopoly of the airwaves.
People are fed up with the national broadcaster, which broadcasts mainly former ruling party Zanu (PF) propaganda material, shot in black and white during the days of the liberation struggle before Independence in 1980.
The television station shows interminable footage of armed soldiers singing and praising President Robert Mugabe.
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