Colorado Media Newsroom
May 26th, 2024, 01:30 PM
From Radio Insight:
https://i0.wp.com/radioinsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/werv-200x200.jpg?resize=200%2C200&ssl=1At the same time Alpha Media launched “Chicagoland’s Free Country (https://www.freecountrychicago.com)” on 98.3 WCCQ Crest Hill/Joliet and 102.3 WXLC Waukegan IL, the company quietly made another flip in its suburban Chicago cluster.
Classic Rock “95.9 The River (https://www.959theriver.com)” WERV-FM Aurora moved from Rock leaning Classic Hits to Classic Alternative on Friday at 2pm. Positioning as “Chicagoland’s Classic Alternative,” the station is focusing on Alternative hits from the 1980s through early 2000s. The new format gives a competitor in Chicago’s western suburbs to Cumulus Alternative “Q101 (https://www.q101.com)” WKQX.
The first hour on Friday at 2pm featured:
Smashing Pumpkins – Today
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle
REM – Orange Crush
Beastie Boys – Sabotage
White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
Depeche Mode – Strangelove
No Doubt – Spiderwebs
Offspring – You’re Gonna Go Far Kid
Violent Femmes – Blister In The Sun
311 – All Mixed Up
Fall Out Boy – Thanks Fr The Mmrs
more (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/269830/werv-brings-classic-alternative-to-suburban-chicago/)
https://i0.wp.com/radioinsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/werv-200x200.jpg?resize=200%2C200&ssl=1At the same time Alpha Media launched “Chicagoland’s Free Country (https://www.freecountrychicago.com)” on 98.3 WCCQ Crest Hill/Joliet and 102.3 WXLC Waukegan IL, the company quietly made another flip in its suburban Chicago cluster.
Classic Rock “95.9 The River (https://www.959theriver.com)” WERV-FM Aurora moved from Rock leaning Classic Hits to Classic Alternative on Friday at 2pm. Positioning as “Chicagoland’s Classic Alternative,” the station is focusing on Alternative hits from the 1980s through early 2000s. The new format gives a competitor in Chicago’s western suburbs to Cumulus Alternative “Q101 (https://www.q101.com)” WKQX.
The first hour on Friday at 2pm featured:
Smashing Pumpkins – Today
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle
REM – Orange Crush
Beastie Boys – Sabotage
White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
Depeche Mode – Strangelove
No Doubt – Spiderwebs
Offspring – You’re Gonna Go Far Kid
Violent Femmes – Blister In The Sun
311 – All Mixed Up
Fall Out Boy – Thanks Fr The Mmrs
more (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/269830/werv-brings-classic-alternative-to-suburban-chicago/)