Heavy Metal Station

[MarioMania]

I know 98 Rock in Sac and KOMP in Vegas plays pure Rock

Just a Metal Station only

 

[Saladressing]

I don't understand the post but I do wonder if there have ever been any pure metal stations in the US over the airwaves either on AM or FM - a station similar to Sirius/XM's Liquid Metal.

 

[lp]

I don't understand the post but I do wonder if there have ever been any pure metal stations in the US over the airwaves either on AM or FM - a station similar to Sirius/XM's Liquid Metal.

KNAC in LA 86-94 would be the closest. We played a lot of mainstream bands like Aerosmith, Bon Jovi and the like, but we also played Slayer, Testament, Anthrax...etc.. in all dayparts.

 

[klutch00]

WXZL (103.1) Grasonville MD from 1 April 1991 to about the end of 1993 was an all-metal/hard rock station.

 

[arockaholic]

107.1 HD-2 "No Control Radio" in Austin,TX plays metal 24/7.

 

[evolve991]

Yes WXZL 103.1 was "The Underground" for a while. It was an incarnation of Baltimores 97 Underground which is now an internet only station.

 

[tjolsen]

Seton Hall University's WSOU 89.5 is nearly all metal and hard rock minus community programming and some specialty shows

 

[johnbasalla]

There was the national Z-Rock format "off-the-bird" (satellite) that a number of FM stations took for awhile in, what was it, the mid-late 1980s?

 

[hm insulators]

I don't understand the post but I do wonder if there have ever been any pure metal stations in the US over the airwaves either on AM or FM - a station similar to Sirius/XM's Liquid Metal.

KNAC in LA 86-94 would be the closest. We played a lot of mainstream bands like Aerosmith, Bon Jovi and the like, but we also played Slayer, Testament, Anthrax...etc.. in all dayparts.

Aaah, the late great KNAC! I was living in Los Angeles at the time it was on the air and I listened to it every chance I had, which wasn't very often because its wimpy signal wouldn't reach the San Fernando Valley.

 

[klutch00]

There was the national Z-Rock format "off-the-bird" (satellite) that a number of FM stations took for awhile in, what was it, the mid-late 1980s?

Z-Rock originally had a few FM affiliates when it started up about 1986 or 7. When those broadcasters abandoned the service (save for KZRK in the Dallas area), SMN made an appeal for AM stations to pick up the format, and several did. Things were going along well and in 1990 or so, Lee Abrams came along to consult. Unfortunately, because he wanted to make the format more appealing to FM broadcasters, he needed to 'water the format' down with more mainstream programming. Listeners began to reject this and started to abandon the format. Moreover, the musical scene was changing by about 1992 or 3, and Z-Rock didn't adapt. The format continued on a few affiliates until about 1996, when it went kaput.

http://www.zrockready.com/

https://www.facebook.com/ZRockReady

 

[lp]

Things were going along well and in 1990 or so, Lee Abrams came along to consult. Unfortunately, because he wanted to make the format more appealing to FM broadcasters, he needed to 'water the format' down with more mainstream programming.

KNAC brought Lee in too. In that first meeting he proclaimed; "Iron Maiden and Judas Priest are dead." Within a week we were pounding Green Day. Yeah, thanks, Lee! %$%#@*&!&

 

[vchimpanzee]

There was the national Z-Rock format "off-the-bird" (satellite) that a number of FM stations took for awhile in, what was it, the mid-late 1980s?

Also AM. It's unbelieveable this wasn't a success on WROQ Charlotte, NC, which had been standards as Big WAYS, a name used when the station was Top 40. Months later it was oldies and let those great letters get away.

I remember "We don't brake for wimps".