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Thursday, January 3, 2013

New Radio Station 96.9 Changes Again - True Station Now A Mystery

After just one day on the air, Power 96.9 is no more and an electronic dance station has taken its place according to the Greater Boston Media Group. What type of station will the new channel finally end up being?

Update: 96.9 has changed for good into a hip hop/rock station.  -- Original Article -- If you tuned in to 96.9 Thursday morning and were hoping to hear either news talk radio or hip hop, you're out of luck. After shutting down NewsTalk 96.9 on Wednesday in favor of Power 96.9, a new hip hop and R&B channel, 96.9 morphed again today into an eletronic dance station, Nova. "The transformation of  the new 96.9 FM continued today at 10 a.m. with the launch of NOVA, Boston’s new electronic dance music (EDM) station," announced Greater Media Boston in a statement. "Plan on more surprises to be unveiled throughout the week," the statement said. It doesn't take too much speculation to realize the station will change all week at 10 a.m. each day.  …

S.H.

1:17 am on Saturday, May 11, 2013

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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

New Hip Hop and R&B Radio Station Hits Boston Airwaves

After weeks of speculation, WTKK NewsTalk 96.9 officially relaunched as POWER 96.9 on Wednesday.

Jan. 3rd Update:  A day after its launch of Power 96.9, the station morphed again into an electronic dance channel. See here for the update. Original Story from Jan. 2nd: Capping off a year of several radio station changes in the city, a new hip hop and R&B radio channel officially replaced WTKK's NewsTalk 96.9 this week.  Power 96.9 launched Wednesday at 10 a.m., after a heartfelt good-bye from morning hosts Margery Eagan and Jim Braude set to Journey's "Don't Stop Believing." "America did not fall off the fiscal cliff," joked Braude, "but we are falling off the radio cliff." Greater Media Inc.'s 96.9 WTKK has been a talk radio station in the city since 1999. It played host to now-infamous radio show personalities such as Don Imus and Jay…

Velvet Jones

12:37 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013

Good riddance , it was 90% right wing blowhards anyway. Buh Bye.   more ›

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