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Radio SAW, launched in 1992 from a Magdeburg wallpaper factory, became eastern Germany's biggest private radio station. Its 80er webstream delivers the definitive German take on the decade, from Neue Deutsche Welle to Depeche Mode, Michael Jackson, and Tina Turner.
Retro Radio is a Danish institution that has played non-stop hits from the 60s, 70s and 80s since 2009. Run by a local radio association and powered by listener requests around the clock, it is a warm, free, community jukebox of disco, synth-pop, classic rock and soul.
bigFM Just Music is the talk-free, music-only channel of bigFM, the biggest private youth radio station in Germany with 2.5 million weekly listeners. It keeps the station's hip-hop, urban and chart-pop energy and strips out the chatter, for an uninterrupted stream of beats.
Nightride FM Darksynth is the darkest channel of an independent, community-run synthwave platform that took its name from a fictional GTA V radio station. Expect cinematic, horror-tinged, cyberpunk electronic music in high-quality audio, championing new artists and built around a real fan community.
CKNX AM 920 grew from a transmitter Doc Cruickshank built in his mother's kitchen in 1926 into one of Canada's oldest stations. Broadcasting classic country and news to the farm country of Midwestern Ontario, it gave the province the legendary Saturday Night Barn Dance and still keeps a newspaper-less region connected.
ffn Dance Only is the nonstop dance channel of radio ffn, the oldest private station in Lower Saxony, on air since 1986. No talk, no breaks, just current pop and dance hits, built for the workday, the after-work wind-down and the party with friends.
Nova is Denmark's most successful commercial radio station, on air since 2008 on the country's fifth FM channel and owned by Bauer Media. It plays current chart pop for over a million weekly listeners, anchored by its multi-award-winning GO NOVA morning show. Its slogan: the sound of today.
Diavlos 92.4 (Δίαυλος Ροδόπης) is the awarded voice of Thrace, broadcasting from Komotini in Greece's far northeast since 1988. It plays the biggest Greek hits around the clock and threads them through genuine local news, reaching across Rodopi, Xanthi, Evros and the nearby Aegean islands.
R.SA is Saxony's feel-good music radio, broadcasting from Leipzig to grown-up listeners who love the greatest hits of the 60s to 90s, with a clear soft spot for the 80s. Famous for cheeky stunts like its naked-sledding event, it pairs decades of classics with a distinctly Saxon sense of humour.
Antenne Unna is the local station for Germany's Kreis Unna, on air since 1991 and the runaway market leader in its district, beating the big public broadcasters combined. It wraps mainstream pop around relentlessly local news and community life, aiming to be its listeners' best friend and neighbour.
On air since 1 November 1983, Radio Zürisee is one of Switzerland's first private stations, broadcasting from Rapperswil on the shore of Lake Zurich. It plays the best hits of the 80s, 90s and beyond with strong regional identity, reaching around 230,000 listeners a day.
Born in Bologna in 1982 on a single idea, play only Italian music, LatteMiele grew into one of Italy's national radio networks. Now Milan-based, it streams the classics and the current charts of musica italiana around the clock, complete with the famous Paolo Fox horoscope.
