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Heart 80s launched in 2017 as Global's dedicated 1980s spin-off from Heart, broadcasting from Leicester Square with a live Simon Beale breakfast show and a technical history that helped launch its sister station Heart 90s.
Fama 98.1 runs classic hits from the 70s, 80s and 90s as the Barquisimeto signal of Circuito Éxitos, broadcasting from a Venezuelan city long nicknamed the country's musical capital for its instrument workshops, conservatory and generations of homegrown musicians.
After WDUQ dropped its jazz format, former staffers spent six years rebuilding it from scratch, first as a 2011 internet stream and finally as WZUM-FM in 2016, restoring dedicated jazz radio to the city that produced Billy Strayhorn, Ahmad Jamal and Art Blakey.
De Tijdloze grew out of Studio Brussel's Tijdloze 100, an annual listener-voted countdown running since 1987, before VRT turned three decades of results into a full-time digital station in 2018, complete with the sole Belgian track ever to top the list, Gorki's "Mia."
Radio KLA broadcasts from Mar del Plata, Argentina's biggest beach resort, running serious weekday journalism alongside weekend surf culture programming, with regional artists like the late Karina Vismara, a Balcarce-born singer who studied under Paul McCartney's tutelage, in rotation.
KBNA-FM spent its first sixteen years as a rock and disco station before Tichenor Radio flipped it to Regional Mexican as Ké Buena in 1985, building a 100,000-watt signal from the Franklin Mountains that reaches across the binational El Paso-Ciudad Juárez border market.
XHCJ-FM has broadcast from the same Apatzingán concessionaire since 1952, cycling through pop and adult hits formats before settling into the Ke Buena Regional Mexican franchise in 2022, now serving Michoacán's Tierra Caliente lime-growing region.
XEOC-AM launched in 1958 as Radio Chapultepec, its call letters spelling out founder Federico Obregón Cruces's name, before cycling through pop and Regional Mexican rebrands under Grupo Radio Digital and returning to its original identity in 2012.
Radio Bío-Bío launched in Concepción in 1966 as Chile's only major station independent of political, religious, or economic groups, later expanding south to Puerto Montt, the historic German-settled gateway to Chilean Patagonia.
CKNG-FM spent 36 years cycling through country, soft rock, Top 40 and adult hits formats under names like King FM, Power 92 and Fresh Radio before Corus rebranded it 92.5 The 'Chuck in 2018, borrowing a nickname rooted in Edmonton's large Ukrainian community.
Fantasía W Radio spent six years as a webcast before Mexican regulators granted it a rare social use concession in 2016, turning it into a community station that now reaches 14 municipalities from Zitácuaro, the gateway town to Michoacán's Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve.
Rete Italia has broadcast Italian-language radio across Australia since 1994, growing to over 30 stations serving the nearly one million Australians of Italian ancestry shaped by postwar migration to Melbourne and Sydney.
