![]() This was preceded by what proved to be a decoy media release that the new format would be Traditional Hawaiian "Nā Mele 93.1," a brand that is used at parent company Ohana Broadcasting's other outlets in Hawaii. On February 4, 2011, KQMQ dropped their Top 40/CHR format and began stunting with all- Bob Marley music during the weekend until February 7, 2011, when it flipped to a format that consists of Reggae and Contemporary Hawaiian music, billing it as "93.1 Da Pā'ina." The move to a Reggae-based format make this the second of its kind in the United States. In 2005 they would return to Mainstream Top 40 with a Modern AC lean as "93.1 The Zone." During their tenure its listenership was 3.9 percent of Hawaii's listeners. In 2000 it would switch to an All-80s & 90s format, as their format would move over to sister station KDDB. It was the first station in Hawaii to include local contemporary music in its regular play list, thus giving exposure to groups like Kalapana, Cecilio and Kapono, and Keola and Kapono Beamer.īy the 1980s it inherited the Top 40 format from KKUA and would continue it into the 1990s. Among the other DJs were Ron Wood, Bob Cole, Noel Grey. ![]() Gene Davis was Program Director, Lee Abrams was consultant. #radio is king.” Let us know your favorite radio discoveries in the comments.The station, which signed on the air on October 1, 1967, originally was an AOR outlet in its early days after it was acquired from Cecil Heftel and began broadcasting "album cut" music around 1976. Music is what makes us live, and in the developing world, there is no iPod still. Teguzstereo has an entire network which is pretty solid as well.Īs Angela Ostifichuk told us on Twitter, there are “Too many to count. As suggested by Instagrammer yasir.iqbal_. Yep, it’s a station dedicated to Pink Floyd. (This is the one that this writer has kept coming back to while putting this piece together.) Teguzstereo Pink Floyd - Honduras On Twitter, Alaina O’Brien suggests alt-rock station Radio Soundportal in Austria. “Fun blend of tropical Hawaiian reggae - gets you stoked to travel, head to the beach, even to be in a better mood.” Radio Soundportal - Austria Instagrammer rachelwatroba suggests Hawaii’s reggae station Da Pa’ina. It “felt like a time warp to drive through that sound cloud in the ETX Piney Woods.” 93.1 Da Pa’ina - Hawaii Instagrammer carlamowell votes 99.9 KMOO in Texas. Most of the time the people whose names were announced would have died a day or two before.” The whole purpose was to give listeners information on when the body was reposing at the home, or when the funeral would happen for example. At the end of the names, she would always say in Irish, “ Ar a dheis siad go raibh siad”. They were read out daily at 10am, 2pm, and 6pm by an old woman called Nelly. “”The obituaries” were played on Midlands 103 in Tullamore, Co. Matador staff writer Morgane Croissant tells of when she lived in Tullamore, Ireland, how during her Sunday breakfast, a mournful voice on Midlands 103 would read off the names of the recently deceased: The “random tagline of “Very Normal People” always makes us laugh!” Midlands 103 - Tullamore, Ireland Melissa Conway votes for RTL 102.5, a contemporary hits station in Italy. ![]() “Not far from home for me, but our all-time favorite station.” RTL 102.5 - Italy On Instagram, katnipp_ontheroadagain suggests Austin’s KLBJ 93.7, a rock station. Set the tone when I tuned in as I drove for the first time from Honolulu to the North Shore.” KLBJ 93.7 - Texas “Incredible aloha just flowing from this station. ![]() Matador’s own David Miller discovered the University of Hawaii-Manoa’s non-commercial alternative radio station KTUH on his first trip to Hawaii. ![]()
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