The UK Station Reborn Twice
Virgin Radio streams hot adult contemporary and pop hits from the UK, launched by Richard Branson in 1993, sold off as Absolute Radio in 2008, and relaunched in 2016 with hosts Chris Evans and Graham Norton.
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Virgin Radio streams hot adult contemporary and pop hits from the UK, launched by Richard Branson in 1993, sold off as Absolute Radio in 2008, and relaunched in 2016 with hosts Chris Evans and Graham Norton.
RMC Radio Monte Carlo streams Italian adult contemporary and pop hits, tracing back to a 1966 launch whose call-in quiz shows once jammed Italy's phone exchanges, now part of the Mediaset network.
Flashback Radio streams nonstop 90s and 00s dance anthems, 80s house, and indie 24 hours a day from Birmingham, England, built around live DJ chat and listener song requests.
Studio Brussel streams alternative rock, hip-hop, and electronic music live from Belgium, free on Radio Shuffle. Launched by VRT in 1983, it is the broadcast home of Rock Werchter and Pukkelpop and runs the listener-voted Tijdloze 100 countdown.
Radio 538 streams chart hits and dance music live from the Netherlands, free on Radio Shuffle. Founded in 1992 by former Radio Veronica staff, it now hosts 538 Koningsdag, one of the country's biggest annual music festivals.
LOS 40 streams pop and dance hits live from Madrid, free on Radio Shuffle. Born in 1966 as a Top 40-inspired countdown show on Cadena SER, it grew into Spain's biggest music station and now hosts the LOS40 Music Awards.
RTL2 streams pop-rock music live from Paris, free on Radio Shuffle. Born from the 1992 merger that created M40, it was relaunched as RTL2 in 1995 and has stuck to its pop-rock format for three decades under the RTL Group.
94.7 Highveld Stereo streams hit music and talk from Johannesburg, South Africa, free on Radio Shuffle. Launched in 1964 as the country's first regional FM service, it now hosts Ride Joburg, the world's second-largest timed cycle race.
La Campera 92.9 streams banda and regional Mexican music from Ciudad Jiménez, Chihuahua, free on Radio Shuffle. The frequency dates to a 1952 AM concession and has served the region for more than 70 years.
Berliner Rundfunk 91.4 streams 1970s and 1980s pop and oldies across Berlin, a commercial station that took over the name and frequency of East Germany's Soviet-founded state broadcaster after reunification in 1992.
Like Radio streams pop hits from the UK, the flagship channel of a network that grew from a single 2015 West Midlands station into nine channels now run by The Radio Broadcast Co.
Radio Contact streams pop and Top 40 hits across French-speaking Belgium, a station founded in 1980 that swapped a gloomy seagull mascot for a dolphin and once expanded as far as Bucharest and Istanbul.