CHRles
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« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2009, 02:42:51 PM » |
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Thx for your words of encouragement. It's one of my dreams to someday try and start a CHR station in a place like Tel Aviv, so who knows maybe someday I'll look into it.
Currently there are no real CHRs in Israel, at all. There's several stations throughout the country known for playing a lot of Pop music, but it's usually either blocked programming, or more of a Hot A/C type of station. Galgalaz, for example, (91.8 FM in Tel Aviv and other frequencies all over Israel) plays a lot of currents, but also some 80s and 90s, and 50 percent of the content is usually in Hebrew. 99 FM, which used to be known as Radio Escape (and prior to that as 99 BU) was a very Dance friendly CHR for most of the deace, but got bought out last year by someone who took it in a more A/C direction. Radius 100 FM goes CHR at night after 7 PM, but in the daytime you've got hours dedicated to love songs, or music of the 50s and 60s. The same is true for Radio Haifa 107.5, or somewhat true for Radio Jerusalem 101 FM. 103 FM is pretty much a talk station, similiar to Reshet Bet (a government owned station heard all over the state). Radio Tel Aviv 102 FM also pretty much goes CHR at night, but is very talk intensive in the afternoons, and between 2-4 PM plays eclectic Rock music.
90 FM has several current Pop music shows that air daily.
There's also a station dedicated to Classical music, and one that plays nothing but Israeli songs. Most stations though don't have a defined format, and are somewhat unfocused. I wish that would be change as in other parts of the Middle East the radio dial seems to be light years ahead. Lebanon, for example, has had its own CHR stations since the early 80s, first with Radio One 105.5, and then with stations like Magic 102, and Hit FM 100.5. Currently the big CHRs there are Radio One, Mix FM 104.4, and NRJ 99 FM. In the big cities in Turkey there are like 4-5 CHR/Pop stations, which are usually very Dance friendly, along with several pure Dance stations. Cyprus has had its own CHRs for over a decade, and even prior to that you've had BFBS Radio 1 there all over the island. In Dubai CHR radio has been around since at least the early 90s, Jordan started to get its own CHRs several years ago, Cairo got one earlier in the decade, as did Morocco, and even Damascus in Syria got a CHR last year. So it's a bit frustrating that Israel lags behind many of its neighbors in terms of radio yet at the same time Israel is one of the wealthiest countries per capita in the Middle East (I think in the Top 30 overall in the world).
I will say this though, there are some great weekly Dance shows at night on many of Israel's radio stations.
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