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February 9, 2022

Ebro in the Morning Break Down Hip Hop Music on the Radio as Hot 97's Drewski No Longer Plays Gang Related Rap

Ebro, Laura Stylez, Rosenberg, DJ Kast One, and Shani Kulture address the recent violence in NYC in which multiple people were murdered. Ho...

Entercom Drops Sports Radio 105.7 The Fan on FM for Milwaukee's New Hip Hop Station HOT 105.7

Urban Radio Nation Staff 6:15 PM

Entercom, home to the nation’s most influential collection of podcasts, digital and broadcast audio content, and premium live events and exp...

Ed Lover Heads to Chicago for Mornings at 104.3 Jams WBMX

Urban Radio Nation Staff 9:11 PM

Entercom, the #1 creator of live, original, local audio content in the United States, announced the launch of “The Ed Lover Morning Show,...

The Inland Empire's New Home for Hip Hop and R&B is the New WILD 93.5

Urban Radio Nation Staff 2:30 PM

Meruelo Media Launches the New WILD 93.5 FM KDEY a Top 40 Rhythmic FM Radio Station in Riverside/San Bernardino! Owner and Operator of L...

Why Local Hip Hop Stations, Too Scared to Innovate, Will Lose Listeners

Urban Radio Nation Staff 12:00 AM

" If it weren’t for coming standard in every car on the road, radio would be obsolete, its slow and grueling death following the p...

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August 10, 2016

Charlie Morgan Named SVP/Market Manager of Emmis-New York

Urban Radio Nation Staff 1:11 PM

Charlie Morgan has been named Senior Vice President/Market Manager of Emmis-New York, which includes Hot97, WBLS and WLIB. Morgan has b...

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April 4, 2014

Streetz 103.3 is the NEW Hip Hop Station in Charlotte

Urban Radio Nation Staff 7:54 PM

Taking its cue from Atlanta sister station, Streetz 103.3 has launched in Charlotte. The station is using " We Are Hip Hop " as ...

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March 16, 2014

SF Bay Area Station Launches CRAZY Stunt #Nelly1057 Nelly's "Hot in Herre"

Urban Radio Nation Staff 10:43 AM

UPDATE : The stunt ended at 5:00 p.m. on Monday, March 17th. The new station Hot 105.7 debuted with popular morning host Chuy Gomez, who h...

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February 14, 2014

De La Soul Makes ALL of their Music Available for Free

Urban Radio Nation Staff 12:30 AM

READ OUR UPDATE ON THIS POST BELOW... De La Soul is giving away their entire catalog for free today, February 14th in anticipation...

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October 14, 2013

Miami's 103.5 The Beat is Back Playing Hip Hop Again

Urban Radio Nation Staff 8:33 AM

"Miami’s Beat is Back, Beaches" ( at least that's what we think they said). Another promo says... "99 can bend over an...

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December 12, 2012

Hot 97 PD Ebro Darden Has a Message for New York Rappers, now Rosenberg Fires Back at his boss!

Urban Radio Nation Staff 12:00 AM

Not Since Summer Jam's Nicki Minaj Dis Has Hot 97 Generated This Much Buzz on the blogs Ebro Darden , the Program Director at HOT 97...

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September 11, 2012

SWAGGA 94.1 is the NEW Hip Hop Urban Station in Florence, SC

Urban Radio Nation Staff 3:33 AM

Not Hot, The Beat, or Power, but Swagga! What do you think of the name? A new station has hit the airwaves in South Carolina as Qantum Co...

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July 13, 2012

New York City Radio Wars Between Hot 97 and Power 105.1

Urban Radio Nation Staff 12:40 PM

A group of "broadcasters" calling themselves Hip Hop Politics have created a YouTube video on the topic of the battle between Hot...

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July 11, 2012

How Mixtapes Are Killing Black Music

Urban Radio Nation Staff 12:29 PM

If Lil Wayne comes out tomorrow and states that the Mixtape game is dead and he will no longer deal with it, then watch how many rappers fol...

Univision Drops Spanish Programming and Launches “Radio H2O” in Dallas

Urban Radio Nation Staff 12:57 PM

Radio H20 could be coming your way soon, and it has nothing to do with water (aqua) Coming on the heels of a concert that was recently spo...

Ratings Winner WGBZ The Beat Flips from Hip Hop to Classic Rock

Urban Radio Nation Staff 5:25 PM

Sounds like the formula for success for any radio station. Get listeners to tune in and advertisers will promote their product by buying ads...

Funkmaster Flex and DJ Clue Set Off New York City Radio Battle [AUDIO]

Urban Radio Nation Staff 3:00 AM

New York City hip hop radio personalities Funkmaster Flex of Hot 97 and Power 105.1's DJ Clue have set off a radio war of words over r...

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February 24, 2012

The Hot Boyz: Are they the New Morning Team at Power 99?

Urban Radio Nation Staff 2:24 AM

No official word- A New Morning Team by Default Following the firing of former host Tarsha "Jonesy" Jones, Power 99 immediately ...

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July 6, 2011

Common and Nas' "Ghetto Dreams" Recalls Raw '90s Sound of Hip Hop

Urban Radio Nation Staff 5:50 PM

Now that Common is with Warner, will it mean more sales or even urban radio airplay that his last album did not get at all? Last week, Chica...

WAMO 100.1 is Pittsburgh's New, "OLD" Home for Hip Hop and R&B

Urban Radio Nation Staff 6:39 AM

Is Urban radio really back in Pittsburgh? We drove all around the city and only picked up about 90% static -Boring Pittsburgh.com W...

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