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Radio Grün Weiß began in 1998 as Upper Styria's first local station and spent two decades expanding, eventually reaching Graz and rebranding around a new promise to cover all of Styria.
RetroFM began as a five-hour programming block on Moscow's Radio-1 Ostankino in 1995 before becoming an independent station, now reaching over eight million daily listeners under Russia's European Media Group.
Wow 101.1 FM traces back to a 1942 AM concession in Mexico's Comarca Lagunera, changing names three times in six months in 2020 and 2021 before settling into its current English classic hits format.
Radio Energy Cugir broadcasts local pop, rock and Romanian folk music into a Transylvanian town whose real global reputation rests on a 225-year-old metalworks and arms factory.
SWR4 Kaiserslautern has shifted from Deutschpop to English-language oldies and weathered a 2026 consolidation of its morning show into Stuttgart, while still opening a pop-up studio on Kaiserslautern's Schillerplatz to keep a local presence.
Guadalajara's XEAV-AM held the Canal 58 identity for eight decades after its 1942 concession before rebranding to Vox Radio Hits in 2023, now simulcasting with FM sister station XHABCJ-FM under Radio Cañón ownership.
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.
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."
6IX has broadcast from Perth since 1933, surviving a 1970 takeover by television company TVW, a failed 1988 rebrand as "The Eagle," and multiple ownership changes to remain a classic hits station on 1080 AM today.
Rewind 93.5 is a classic hits HD subchannel carried by WDBR, Springfield, Illinois's oldest continuously operating FM station, which has survived a 2006 tornado and multiple format changes since signing on in 1948.
KEWU 89.5 FM spent 37 years as a nationally award-winning jazz station out of Cheney, Washington before Eastern Washington University sold the license in 2025, and the frequency now broadcasts as an oldies station under new ownership.
