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Metro FM Lagos launched in 1977 as Africa's first FM radio station, passing through the names NBC2 and RN2 before becoming Metro and later rebranding for a younger audience in 2013.
Z95.3 Vancouver launched in 1991, cycled through 95 Crave and Virgin Radio branding, then reclaimed its heritage name in 2014 with the tagline "You can't stay a Virgin forever."
CKUA, Canada's first public broadcaster since 1927, passed through decades of Alberta government ownership before being sold to a listener-funded non-profit foundation for ten dollars in 1994.
Rock and Pop Mar del Plata carries the legacy of Argentina's most influential FM brand, founded by Daniel Grinbank and voices including Mario Pergolini, to the country's famous beach resort city.
Exa FM 104.9 is the Mexico City flagship of MVS Radio's Exa FM network, a frequency that has broadcast since 1974 under three different identities before becoming the pop station behind 70-plus stations in nine countries.
Jovem Pan News traces back to Rádio Panamericana, founded in São Paulo in 1942 under a license signed by President Getúlio Vargas, now running a 24-hour news and sports format launched in 2021.
Triple M Adelaide only became 5MMM in 1994 after the national network paid a community broadcaster for the rights to a callsign first claimed in 1979, a rare case of a commercial station buying its own brand identity.
Jazz FM streams a full daily jazz schedule from Skopje, North Macedonia, anchored by Darko Markovski, a DJ who has shaped Macedonian radio since 1994.
NDR 2 Hamburg streams contemporary pop and regional news from the city where the Beatles got their start on the Reeperbahn, part of NDR 2's broader northern German pop network since 1956.
Classic FM 102.7 launched in Johannesburg in 1997 as South Africa's only classical station, rebranded as Hot 1027 in 2021, and fought a court case to keep classical programming overnight while running old school R&B by day.
radio SAW-Urban Music is the R&B and urban contemporary web stream from radio SAW, eastern Germany's biggest private broadcaster since its 1992 launch in Magdeburg.
Ocean 100 traces back to a 1974 Christmas Day launch in Charlottetown, PEI, surviving an underpowered start, a 1990s shared-facility crisis, and an AM-to-FM move to become the island's classic hits station.
