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WENZ (107.9 FM) is a commercial mainstream urban radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio.The station is owned by Urban One since 1999, its studios are located on Oak Tree Blvd in the former iHeartMedia facility and studios in Independence, Ohio, while the station transmitter resides in Russell Township in Geauga County.
Michael Jackson's Thriller (LP cuts) remained atop the Hot Dance/Disco chart for 11 weeks, the longest in history. Madonna topped the Hot Dance/Disco chart for the first time with "Holiday"/"Lucky Star". [9] 1984 "When Doves Cry" by Prince topped the Hot Dance/Disco chart for six consecutive weeks, longer than any other singles that year. [10] 1985
Lady Gaga achieved the first number one of 2010 with "Bad Romance", [1] a position it held in the last week of 2009, thus spending two weeks atop the chart in total. [2] Beyoncé attained three number songs on the chart throughout the course of 2010, with " Why Don't You Love Me ", [ 11 ] " Telephone " (Lady Gaga ft. Beyoncé), [ 12 ] and ...
WOGL (98.1 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, owned by Audacy, Inc. The station broadcasts a classic hits radio format. WOGL's transmitter is located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia, [3] and its studios and offices are co-located within Audacy's corporate headquarters in Center City, Philadelphia.
The USA's first commercial full-time dance radio format was MARS-FM, airing in Los Angeles and Orange County, California on 103.1 FM KSRF/KOCM from late 1991 to late 1992. The rave-inspired format was created by KROQ DJs Swedish Egil and Freddy Snakeskin. 103.1 FM would later be the home of several subsequent Los Angeles dance radio formats ...
WRKO midday legend J.J. Wright (later at WODS) was one of the original disco DJs for WBOS when the station went round-the-clock disco in 1978. Longtime, popular producer Jack King (WBIM-FM, WVBF, and WBZ) created, wrote and engineered most of the station's disco specials at the time. King was there at the beginning of the station's format ...
Disco Saturday Night was carried by KBIG-FM for nearly a year after the format change, but after Labor Day in 2008, the show was replaced by 8 Hours Of 80s, which ran until the Spring of 2009. In April 2009, Sean Hamilton, long-time afternoon host at WKTU-FM in New York City, joined KBIG-FM as host of its afternoon show. [13]
Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, [132] mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics. [133] The moniker appeared in print as early as 2002, and by mid-2008 was used by record shops such as the online retailers Juno and Beatport. [ 134 ]