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Hip - Hop/Urban Stations

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Hi, are there Hip Hop stations in Spain, Portugal or Italy.

So far I know there are Hip hop stations in London (96.9/107.1 Choice FM), 97,4 & Skyrock in Paris, & KISS 98,8 in Berlin.
 
Sorry, no. There's Hip Hop stations all over France, a couple in Germany, one in Moscow, one in Estonia, one in the Czech Republic, one in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, and maybe another country or two.
 
Hip-hop isn't big in Spain, so no stations. Don't know Portugal at all. In Italy you get Play Radio which does some urban stuff these days, and has relays in most cities and large towns. There may be a local hip-hop station somewhere - there are so many stations in Italy it's impossible to be 100% sure...

France has a LOT of hip-hop stations. Skyrock is national - it's the world's biggest single urban format station, with hundreds of transmitters nationwide.

The other Parisian stations are Ado FM 97.8 (more R'n'B style) and Générations FM 88.2 which plays a lot of local hip-hop. There are also a few community stations in the Parisian suburbs like Vallée FM 98.4, IDFM 98.0 which play a lot of hip-hop. Many other French cities have local stations playing a lot of hip-hop. There's Vibration 89.9 in Brussels, over the border in Belgium, where Skyrock doesn't reach.

Up in Scandinavia (Denmark / Sweden / Norway) there's The Voice, which is available in most cities.

Here in the UK we have Choice FM, which only covers about 50% of London (and plays very little UK hip-hop), although there is a digital-only station from the BBC, 1Xtra, which has a lot of urban stuff. There are also shows on community stations and on stacks of pirate stations.

Hip-hop isn't the big underground music in the UK though, unlike in France. We also get garage/grime/dubstep, which cover a kind of dance/urban crossover. They can be heard on loads of pirates in London. Very few of the pirates have working web streams though. I know you can hear dubstep and garage, and occasionally grime, on Rinse FM, which definately has a webstream - other than that I'm not sure...
 
Play Radio, formerly known as Radio Italia Network (an awesome Dance station) swtiched to a Rock station in the past year. It's known as Virgin Radio, similar to how Europe 2 in France is now Virgin Radio
 
Spain did have one Hip Hop leaned station called Energy 97.7 I believe. I cant remember what city it broadcasted from but it definately leaned Urban, but played some Dance Music, and very little Spanish POP/Rock. Is this station still around? Chrles would know.... Skyrock in France is awesome by the way. Most places in Europe dont have Urban station's, as Dance Music is much more popular over there, you can hear some Urban on some of the CHR and Dance stations though. Also, Chrles didnt mention, but Holland has a regional Urban station called FUN X, which is pretty decent, and Holland also has Wild FM, which is a very american sounding Rhythmic Leaning CHR. I think FUN X covers Ampsterdam and Rotterdam and The Hague area. Also, in Barcelona, if you can pick up Loca Fm there (NATIONAL DANCE STATION), some of the Loca FM network stations air a two hour Hip Hop show a few times a week. You can listen to some of the Loca FM stations online, but their streams are usually poor quality and unreliable.
 
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