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Urban contemporary
Urban contemporary is a music radio format. The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop/rap, contemporary R&B;, urban pop, and on occasion, Caribbean music such as reggae, reggaeton,...
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WVEE
WVEE (103.3 FM, "V-103") is one of the most popular urban-formatted radio stations in the country and the highest-rated station of the Atlanta radio stations by Arbitron. WVEE has Atlanta as its city of license, and is owned by CBS Radio, a...
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WPGC-FM
WPGC-FM is one of the most popular radio stations among Washington, D.C.'s urban format radio stations, and has been ranked as one of its top rated radio stations for over 20 years, according to the Arbitron ratings. It has a city of license of...
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- Mar 1958
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WHPR
WHPR-FM (88.1 FM, "Power Talk 88.1") is a talk radio and oldies music radio station based in Highland Park, Michigan, owned and operated by R. J.'s Late Night Entertainment Corporation.
WHPR-FM's programming is generally brokered talk programming,...
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- May 21, 1954
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Kiss 105-108 East
Kiss 105-108 is the East of England's regional radio station broadcast from Reflection House, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, broadcasting dance music and R'n'B across Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and North Essex.
Kiss 105-108 was previously known as...
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- Sep 6, 2006
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Fresh FM
Fresh FM (call sign: 5FBI) is a not-for-profit community radio station based in Adelaide, Australia broadcasting at a frequency of 92.7 MHz. The station is designed for the young people of Adelaide, and its fundamental operating principle is to ...
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- Apr 1998
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CFXJ-FM
CFXJ-FM is a Canadian radio station in Toronto, Ontario, which uses the on-air brand The New FLOW 93.5. It first aired in 2001 as Canada's first urban music station. The station now airs a rhythmic top 40 format, as a competitor to dance/top 40...
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- 2001
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KMOJ
KMOJ, 89.9 FM, is a community-oriented station station located in Minneapolis, Minnesota airing a predominantly urban adult contemporary format. It began in 1976 as WMOJ, a very low-power AM station at 1200 Khz that reached only a few blocks from...
WBLK
WBLK is an Urban contemporary FM radio station licensed to Depew that serves Buffalo. WBLK plays the musical genres of hip hop, R&B;, urban contemporary gospel, and soul. WBLK celebrated its 40th anniversary as a FM radio station in 2005. Its...
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- 1965
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WWPR-FM
WWPR-FM, also known as "Power 105.1", is a Urban Contemporary radio station that features hip-hop and R&B; licensed to New York City that serves the Greater New York area.
The WWPR call letters were also previously used for one year (starting in...
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- 1953
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KHHT
KHHT (92.3 FM "Hot 92.3") is a radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, USA with an Rhythmic adult contemporary musical format. It is owned by Clear Channel Communications.
92.3 began as KFAC-FM and played classical music. In 1989 the...
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- 1989
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XHITZ-FM
XHITZ-FM (Z90.3) is a commercial Dance Contemporary Radio station in Tijuana, Baja California/San Diego California broadcasting on 90.3 MHz.
XHITZ was once a popular album rock station in the 1970s and 1980s, before they went to a KQLZ-type "Pirate...
KNRJ
KNRJ 101.1 FM, K224CJ 92.7 FM, K257CD 99.3 FM, and K228XO 93.5 FM are a quadrocast station serving the Phoenix area. KNRJ is licensed to Payson, Arizona, which is 57 miles north of Phoenix, while K224CJ is a 10-watt translator from South Mountain's...
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XHMORE-FM
XHMORE-FM (XMOR-FM), or ESPN Radio 98.9 FM is a sports talk radio station serving the San Diego-Tijuana radio market. The station, whose city of license is Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico and broadcasts at 98.9 MHz with an ERP of 50,000 kW, is...
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- 1994
WPHI-FM
WPHI-FM, also known as 100.3 The Beat, is a Urban Contemporary radio station owned by Radio One. The station is licensed to Media, Pennsylvania and serves the Philadelphia market.
The station unit now occupying 100.3 began broadcasting in the early ...
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- Feb 25, 2005
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WJLB
WJLB, is a Clear Channel-owned Urban Contemporary radio station in Detroit that broadcasts on 97.9 megahertz (MHz) frequency. The station is known on-air as FM98 WJLB. This is the station that began the career of Urban radio legend and video jock,...
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- May 24, 1941
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WEUP-FM
WEUP-FM (103.1 FM, "103.1 WEUP") is an urban contemporary formatted radio station that serves Huntsville, Alabama, and most of the Tennessee Valley in north Alabama, United States. WEUP-FM is known as "103.1 WEUP", often pronounced "103.1 'We Up'",...
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- 1987
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XHRM-FM
XHRM-FM(Magic 92.5) is an Rhythmic Adult Contemporary outlet licensed in the Mexican state of Baja California and is operated by Finest City Broadcasting of San Diego, California, United States broadcasting on 92.5 MHz.
XHRM debuted on the air in...
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- 1981
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KMEL
KMEL (106.1 FM) is an Urban Contemporary-formatted radio station located in San Francisco, California, and owned by Clear Channel Communications.
KMEL broadcasts at an effective radiated power of 69,000 watts from the San Bruno Mountain area south...
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WGCI
WGCI-FM (107.5 FM) is a Clear Channel-owned urban contemporary radio station that has a city of license of Chicago. WGCI is considered to be the most popular urban contemporary radio station in Chicago, the nation's 3rd largest radio market, and one...
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WJMZ
WJMZ-FM is an Urban Contemporary station licensed to Anderson, South Carolina and serves the Upstate South Carolina region, including Greenville and Spartanburg. The Cox outlet is licensed by the FCC to broadcast at 107.3 MHz with an ERP of 100 kW....
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- Aug 1, 1963
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WKKV-FM
WKKV-FM, also known as V-100.7 Jams, is an urban contemporary owned by Clear Channel Broadcasting serving the Milwaukee area. The station broadcasts at 100.7 MHz on the FM dial with an ERP of 50 kW and is licensed to Racine, Wisconsin. The playlist...
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WLIB
WLIB (1190 kHz AM) is an urban contemporary gospel radio station located in New York City and owned by Inner City Broadcasting Corporation (I.C.B.C.). Its transmitting towers are located in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.
Prior to picking up its current...
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- Your Praise and Inspiration Station
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- Dec 23, 1941
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WBLX
WBLX-FM (92.9 FM, "93BLX") is an American Mainstream Urban music-formatted radio station that serves Mobile, Lower Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida. The station has served the Gulf Coast for more than 25 years. The station was assigned the WBLX-FM...
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WBTP
WBTP is a Urban Contemporary radio station that serves the Tampa Bay area that plays hip-hop, R&B;, and soul music that aims towards the African American community. Its target audience is African Americans between the ages of 18-34, but its main...
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WAMO-FM
WAOB-FM, formerly WAMO-FM is a radio station serving the Pittsburgh area. It is currently owned by Sheridan Broadcasting Corporation and is licensed to Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, broadcasts at 106.7 MHz. Its transmitter is located in Wexford,...
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- 1960
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KPRS
KPRS is an Urban contemporary radio station that broadcasts on the 103.3 MHz frequency licensed to Kansas City. The station's playlist consists of hip-hop, R&B;, soul, jazz, and gospel music. According to the FCC, it is the oldest continually...
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- 1950
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KBFB-FM
KBFB (97.9 FM, "97.9 The Beat") is a Dallas/Fort Worth-based radio station with an urban contemporary musical format. It is owned by Radio One with sister station Urban AC KSOC-FM 94.5 "K-Soul". Its transmitter is located in Cedar Hill, Texas....
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KDAY
KDAY in Redondo Beach and KWIE in Ontario, are a pair of synchrocasting radio stations based in South Los Angeles that airs a Urban Contemporary format aimed at African-Americans in the 18-49 range. The station is owned by Magic Broadcasting and...
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- THE BEAT OF L.A. 93.5 KDAY
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- SoCals Only Radio Superstation
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KSDB
KSDB-FM is Kansas State University's campus radio station. A non-commercial radio station located in Manhattan, Kansas, broadcasting on 91.9 MHz on the FM dial, KSDB is staffed by about 100 student volunteers who gain valuable experience in all...
WMIB-FM
WMIB is a Clear Channel-owned Urban Contemporary format radio station, licensed to Fort Lauderdale. For 25 years, the station call letters were WSHE, and the station slogan was "She's only Rock n Roll." In 1995, a format change was made from album...
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WJTB
WJTB is a daytime only AM radio station licensed to North Ridgeville, Ohio and serving the western portion of the Cleveland, Ohio market. It operates on 1040 kHz with studios and offices located in Elyria, Ohio. It features programming from the...
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WQBT-FM
WQBT (94.1 FM), known as "94.1 The Beat", is a Urban Contemporary radio station targeted towards Savannah, Georgia. It is owned by Clear Channel Broadcasting.
The station had controversial morning hosts Star and Buc Wild -- which replaced Russ Parr...
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- 1973
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Shade 45
Shade 45 is Eminem's uncensored Hip-Hop/Rap-heavy urban contemporary channel. It debuted with a hip hop format in 2004, changing to its current incarnation when it was added to XM channel 66. It is located on Sirius XM Radio channel 45 (on Sirius),...
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- Oct 28, 2004
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WWLU
WWLU is a non-commercial educational radio station in Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, which is owned and operated by Lincoln University. The station first aired in 1970 as WLIU, and the new callsign came into effect in 2002.
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KATZ-FM
WSDD-FM, known as 100.3 The Sound, is a radio station serving the area of St. Louis, Missouri. with an Modern rock format. The Clear Channel Communications outlet broadcasts at 100.3 FM MHz with an ERP of 50 kW and is licensed to Alton, Illinois....
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WHTD
WHTD (102.7 FM, "HOT 102-7") is an Urban Contemporary music formatted radio station licensed to Mount Clemens, Michigan, and serving the Detroit metropolitan area. The station broadcasts with 50,000 watts of power from an antenna located near the...
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- Nov 6, 1960
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WUBT
WUBT is a United States Urban contemporary FM radio station broadcasting in the Nashville, Tennessee market on a frequency of 101.1 mHz.
Licensed to Russellville, Kentucky, WUBT was originally WBVR ("The Beaver"), a country music-formatted station...
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The Heat
The Heat is the name of Sirius XM Radio's Urban Contemporary channel, on Sirius channel 50 and XM channel 68, as well as on Dish Network channel 6050 and DirecTV channel 825. The service signed on April 17, 2006.
At the start The Heat was a Rhythmic...
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- Apr 17, 2006
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KJLH
KJLH is a Urban Adult Contemporary radio station serving the Los Angeles area. The station, which is owned by Stevie Wonder's Taxi Productions, operates at 102.3 MHz with an effective radiated power of 5.6 kW and is licensed to Compton, California....
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- 1965
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XHFAJ-FM
XHFAJ-FM (better known as Alfa Radio) is a radio station that plays music for teenagers in Mexico City. The station plays music such as punk rock, hip hop, metal, and R&B; (English Language Only)
Alfa radio began in the early 90s broadcasting...
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XHOF-FM
XHOF-FM, also known as Reactor 105.7, is a radio station in Mexico City that plays alternative rock music, and hip hop mainly in English and Spanish.
Founded after the closure of previous projects called Radioactivo 98.5 and Orbita 105.7, some of...
WXBT
WXBT is a Mainstream Urban station licensed to West Columbia, South Carolina and serves the Columbia, South Carolina market. The Clear Channel Communications outlet is licensed by the FCC to broadcast at 100.1 MHz with an ERP of 5.9 kW. The station...
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- Aug 5, 1975
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WDKX
WDKX (103.9 WDKX) is an urban Contemporary radio station that broadcasts from Rochester, New York on a frequency of 103.9 MHz at 900 watts of power.
Monroe County Broadcasting Co., LTD. formed a corporation in 1968 to compete for the available FM...
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- Apr 6, 1974
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KAZI-FM
KAZI (88.7 FM) is an urban contemporary community radio station in Austin, Texas.
KAZI went on the air in August 1982 as a community radio station in Austin serving the African American community of the city and its surrounding areas. The station...
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- Aug 1982
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WNOV
WNOV (860 AM) ("The Source") is a community-oriented urban contemporary radio station located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. WNOV is currently the only station owned by Courier Communications, but on January 18, 2008 it was sold to a new company called...
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- 1968
CJWV-FM
CJWV is a former radio station in Winnipeg, Manitoba that broadcast at 200 watts. It was known on-air as Flava 107.9.
Flava 107.9 was owned by the now dissolved Harmony Broadcasting Corporation. It was originally licensed as a instructional campus...
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WEAS
WEAS-FM is an Urban Contemporary radio station licensed to Springfield, Georgia but serving the Savannah Area. The station is owned by Cumulus Media.
WEAS(FM) began operation in 1968 as an easy listening station to counter the country music format...
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WQTQ
WQTQ (89.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to the Hartford Board of Education and operates out of Weaver High School in Hartford, Connecticut. Operating with 112 watts on 89.9 MHz FM from a tower on top of the Oak Hill School in Hartford, the...
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WJBT-FM
WJBT (or 93.3 The Beat Jamz) is a commercial Urban Contemporary radio station in Jacksonville, Florida broadcasting on 93.3 MHz. The station is owned and operated by Clear Channel Broadcasting.
WJBT has been in its current format at 92.7 since 1992,...
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WKKC
WKKC 89.3 FM is an educational non-profit radio station in Chicago, Illinois licensed to be operated by Kennedy-King College.
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- Jul 31, 1979
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WESE
WESE (92.5 FM), known as "92-5 JAMZ", is an urban contemporary radio station based in Baldwyn, Mississippi, USA, and serves Tupelo and Northeast Mississippi with an ERP of 12,000 watts. WESE is owned by URBan Radio Broadcasting.
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WVKL
WVKL is a Urban Contemporary formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads. WVKL is owned and operated by Entercom Communications.
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KJMM
KJMM (105.3 FM) is an Urban Contemporary radio station serving the Greater Tulsa area. It is owned by Perry Broadcasting and is licensed to Bixby, Oklahoma.
KJMM signed on the air in 1994 as the Urban Contemporary-formatted station for Tulsa. It was...
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- 1994
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KMJJ
KMJJ-FM is a radio station with an urban contemporary format broadcasting in Shreveport, Louisiana and the "Ark-La-Tex." Broadcasting on 99.7 FM, the station is owned by Cumulus Media and is headquartered at the Louisiana Boardwalk shopping center...
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WJTT
WJTT (94.3 FM) is a radio station serving the Chattanooga area. The station operates a Urban Contemporary format and is branded as Power 94 FM. They are owned by Brewer Broadcasting and is licensed to Red Bank, Tennessee.
WSIM FM was licensed in the...
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- 1970
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KCEP-FM
KCEP is a non-commercial radio station located in Las Vegas, Nevada, broadcasting on 88.1 FM. KCEP airs an Urban Contemporary music format branded as "Power 88".
KCEP for years has been able to thrive in the Las Vegas market serving the African...
Founded:
- 1973
WZEE
WZEE (104.1 MHz FM) is "Z104," a radio station owned by Clear Channel Communications in Madison, Wisconsin. Z104 broadcasts a Top 40/CHR music format, and has been airing the format since 1974. WZEE airs a Hip-Hop/Urban Contemporary format on its HD...
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WLXC
WLXC is an Urban Adult Contemporary station licensed to Columbia, South Carolina and serves the Columbia, South Carolina market. The Citadel Broadcasting outlet is licensed by the FCC to broadcast at 103.1 MHz with an ERP of 6 kW. The station goes...
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- 1982
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WWDM
WWDM is a Urban Adult Contemporary station licensed to Sumter, South Carolina and serves the Columbia, South Carolina market. The Inner City Broadcasting outlet is licensed by the FCC to broadcast at 101.3 MHz with an ERP of 100 kW. The station goes...
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- 1961
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WANM
WANM (90.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a College Radio(Urban Contemporary) format. Licensed to Tallahassee, Florida, USA, the station serves the Tallahassee area. The radio station is owned by Florida A&M; University.
