How Rock Replaced 20 Years of Radio NORA
RADIO BOB! Schleswig-Holstein replaced the 20-year-old Radio NORA in May 2016, importing a rock format that had already proven itself in Hesse since 2008, complete with the same AC/DC-heavy playlist.
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RADIO BOB! Schleswig-Holstein replaced the 20-year-old Radio NORA in May 2016, importing a rock format that had already proven itself in Hesse since 2008, complete with the same AC/DC-heavy playlist.
Revisited runs a classic rock rotation from Austria without holding a broadcast license, made possible by laut.fm, a German platform built to turn ordinary listeners into station owners by absorbing the licensing costs itself.
102.5 KZOK has been Seattle's classic rock station since 1986, but the frequency spent two decades as country, Top 40 and progressive rock before landing the format that outlasted them all.
97.1 The Eagle (KEGL) has cycled through easy listening, Top 40, adult contemporary, Spanish oldies and sports talk since 1959, always ending up back on classic rock, most recently reviving the Eagle brand in April 2024 after the failed Freak format.
Virage Radio Légendes du Rock streams decades of classic rock as a themed spinoff of a Sunday night show, and it still carries the Virage Radio name even though the FM station it came from was renamed Virgin Radio in 2024.
XHLY-FM in Morelia dropped its Los 40 franchise format in 2021 and spent several years renaming itself after the current year, from 2021 FM to 2022 FM and beyond, before settling into a permanent identity as Infinito.
RADIO BOB! Classic Rock launched in Kassel in 2008 and grew into a national German rock brand via DAB+, still opening and closing each day with the same AC/DC song it debuted with.
Slow Rock 90' streams Malaysia's rock kapak genre, named after the car parks where early bands performed, which grew from 1980s underground shows into the country's most dominant music movement of the 1990s.
CFMI Rock 101 launched in 1970 as a country and then easy-listening station before becoming Vancouver's classic rock institution, building its own broadcast automation technology along the way.
Radio Regenbogen Rock is the webradio-only classic and hard rock spinoff of Mannheim's Radio Regenbogen, streaming six decades of riffs from the Rolling Stones to Black Sabbath outside the parent station's mixed FM format.
HITS AND MIX RADIO 3 streams out of Puebla, Mexico, a one-person blogspot project built around the tagline "musica para rockanrolear y recordar," spinning classic rock and oldies from the Beatles to Soda Stereo for listeners chasing real nostalgia.
Radio BOB launched in Kassel in 2008 with AC/DC's "Hells Bells" as its first song, and its Best of Rock stream still carries that same rock-only mission across five decades of music.