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At first, they were the only known all old-school hip hop station on terrestrial radio up until KDAY in Los Angeles relaunched their old school hip hop format in August 2009. KNRJ primarily played old school hip hop from the 1980s and 1990s, and some hip hop songs from the early 2000s. In 2011, Fred Rico was named the new program director of KNRJ.
Classic hip hop is a music radio format focusing primarily on hip hop music from the 1980s, 1990s, and the early to mid-2000s. Although stations with such a format date back as far as 2004, the format was first popularized in October 2014, after Radio One dropped a poorly performing news radio format from its Houston station KROI in favor of ...
The classification of urban-formatted radio stations range from the radio formats of rhythmic contemporary hit radio to Urban contemporary gospel. Though urban contemporary was the originator of the format, there have come to be many variations of the format in the last 30 years.
KMEL was the first pop station in the U.S. to play "Wild Thing" by Tone-Loc and "Bust a Move" by Young MC and first of any radio station in the country to play "U Can't Touch This" by Oakland rapper MC Hammer and "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice. [20] Bay Area artists Too Short and Digital Underground also got early airtime on KMEL. [14]
Pages in category "Classic hip-hop radio stations in the United States" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
WCCG began playing Old School Rap music on September 21, 2009. After that it play Hip Hop and R&B and in 2011 they switched their name WCCG FM 104.5 "The Hip Hop Station" and picked up Big Bruce in the morning for 2 years, then in 2011 WCCG began playing the Rickey Smiley Morning Show.
WXGI (950 AM) is a classic hip hop formatted radio station licensed to Richmond, Virginia.WXGI is owned and operated by Urban One.The station's studios and offices are located just north of Richmond proper on Emerywood Parkway [2] in unincorporated Henrico County, and its transmitter is located in the Southside of Richmond.
Flava (formerly Cool Blue 96.1) is a New Zealand classic hip hop and R&B music radio network. The network is owned by NZME Radio, and is operated and produced from the company's Auckland offices and studios on Graham Street. It competes directly with MediaWorks New Zealand's Auckland long-running modern urban music station Mai FM. [1] [2] [3]