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Magic 97.9 plays soft adult contemporary in Boise today, but the frequency spent three decades as a dominant country station and began in 1960 under a broadcaster owned by the LDS Church.
Radio SRF 1 Basel Baselland's Regionaljournal has covered two Swiss cantons together since 1978, decades after they were split apart by armed conflict in 1833 and after two failed reunification votes.
BG Radio launched in Sofia in 2001 as Bulgaria's first station devoted entirely to homegrown pop, rock and estrada, a format shaped by decades of state control over what pop music Bulgarians could hear.
Espectaculo 100.7 FM streams salsa and merengue from Villa Bruzual, a Venezuelan farm town in the heart of joropo llanero country, as part of the seven-station Circuito Radial RMT network.
Metal Express Radio began as an Oslo FM hard rock show in 1985, years before the city's record shops incubated the Norwegian black metal scene that would later become one of the country's most famous cultural exports.
90s90s Dance streams Eurodance and 90s techno as part of RegioCast's digital-only 90s90s network, keeping alive a genre that Germany helped build from Italo disco, hi-NRG and hip hop in the years right after reunification.
edm1.fm Club House streams a continuous live DJ mix of house music, a genre that takes its name directly from a single Chicago nightclub where Frankie Knuckles built the sound from scratch in the late 1970s.
Country Radio Switzerland, founded in Zurich in 2008, streams a genre that Swiss audiences embraced decades earlier partly because their own yodeling tradition had already shaped early American country stars.
Virgin Radio Switzerland carries a rock format born from Richard Branson's 1993 UK launch, licensed into a Zurich station that started life as one half of a two-station bet before absorbing its own sister brand.
Energy Basel plays chart pop and local news today, but its roots trace to Radio Raurach, a 1983 cooperative station that nearly collapsed within months and needed two secret corporate bailouts to survive.
World Radio Switzerland, the country's only 24-hour English-language station, nearly closed for good before a new owner stepped in this year to keep Geneva's international community on the air.
Regionaljournal Basel Baselland has delivered daily regional news since 1978, broadcasting on Radio SRF 1, a network descended from a WWII-era transmitter once relied on across occupied Europe as an independent source of news.
