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Sakha FM streams from Yakutsk into a republic the size of India, run by the state broadcaster NVK Sakha and one of the few stations on earth broadcasting regularly in the Yakut language.
Calimbre Radio grew out of a decade-long FM program in the Canary Islands before launching as a 24-hour stream in 2016, built specifically to give Canarian producers and DJs a platform mainland Spanish radio rarely offers.
LUV 107.1 broadcasts on a Dubai Media City frequency that started life as Heart 107.1 in 2017 before Fun Asia Network rebranded it into the UAE's Hot AC station for a multilingual expat audience.
Tumbado al 100 streams corridos tumbados, the genre Natanael Cano named in 2019 and Peso Pluma took global, whose narco-corrido lyrics have led ten Mexican states to ban live performances even as it dominates streaming charts.
Antena Sur broadcasts 100 percent Andean music from Huancayo into Peru's Mantaro Valley, a region home to over 150 musical groups and roughly 8,000 working musicians, and to huaylarsh, the valley's Cultural Heritage-designated regional dance.
Radio Record House Classics streams from the St. Petersburg network that became Russia's first dance-format station in the 1990s after listeners voted for the change, later expanding into a satellite network of genre-specific channels.
Radio Cumbia Mix streams from Peru, centered on the 70s and 80s when Andean migrants in Lima built chicha, a guitar-driven cumbia named after a fermented maize drink, alongside corridos, salsa and vallenato.
Europe 2 Classics carries the name of a French pop-rock network launched by Lagardère in 1986 that spent 2008 to 2023 broadcasting as Virgin Radio before reverting to its original identity to win back a slipping audience.
Indie 88 launched on 88.1 FM in Toronto in 2013, on a frequency freed up when the CRTC revoked campus station CKLN-FM's licence, announcing itself with a week-long Rick Astley Rickroll before playing Arcade Fire's "Ready to Start" as its first official song.
Radio Paradise's Main Mix runs on a 27-day looped playlist hand-sequenced by founder William Goldsmith, who edits transitions to the millisecond using harmonic mixing techniques borrowed from electronic dance music production.
WILD FM launched as an Amsterdam-area FM hit station in 2005, lost its frequencies to Glxy Radio in 2024, and survived a second company bankruptcy in April 2026, yet its dance-pop-rock stream keeps running online under the Amsterdam Dance Foundation.
RPM Oldies & Retro Hits streams from Buenos Aires, mixing rock nacional pioneers like Sui Generis and Serú Girán with global oldies staples like the Beatles and ABBA, run as a small independent station with hosts who share trivia between songs.
