Rock-Metal Radio Stations

[scottsvb5]

First off... 97underground.com is out of Baltimore....playing alot of New Metal-Classic Metal
and some grunge here and there. They use to be 97Rock? back in the mid 80s-90s.

KHTQ out of Spokane....or rock94.5.com........is 1 of the top rated New Rock-Metal stations
in the country...though Spokane is a mid-market...they are #1 in ratings over the past many
years with a 8.4 rating...with Adult AC coming in a far 2#. They lead the way with New Hard Rock,
playing about 8 new songs per 12 a hour!

 

[TheRover]

There's nothing new or exciting in Rock-Metal in the DFW Market....

After all... we're home to the Dallas Cowboys, The Dallas Stars, and the Texas Rangers !

Medicority all around .... thanks to Tom & Jerry !!!

 

[klutch00]

First off... 97underground.com is out of Baltimore....playing alot of New Metal-Classic Metal
and some grunge here and there. They use to be 97Rock? back in the mid 80s-90s.

KHTQ out of Spokane....or rock94.5.com........is 1 of the top rated New Rock-Metal stations
in the country...though Spokane is a mid-market...they are #1 in ratings over the past many
years with a 8.4 rating...with Adult AC coming in a far 2#. They lead the way with New Hard Rock,
playing about 8 new songs per 12 a hour!

97 Underground (while they broadcast at 96.7) was always know as just that! In the 1991, Tom Pless was involved in an effort to (I believe) buy out 103.1 out of Grasonville MD, just across the Chesapeake Bay from Annapolis. As "103.1, the Underground" and later "Rock 103", they were only on the air for about two years or so before Jake Einstein and his family bought the station taking it to a free-form format. At some point in the mid to late '90s or so, I believe that Pless et.al. put a part 15 radio station on the air at 1630 kHz, calling themselves "The Claw" and using the calls "WDKW".

 

[ddsparxx]

I don't think there's any (not non-commercial) rock-metal stations these days. Back in the 90s, Chicago's 103.5 the blaze (currently WKST top 40) and a 103.1 near Columbus, OH, both played hard rock/metal. (I think the 103.1 is Spanish now)

 

[avtosalon]

From 1991-1994 WWBZ 'The Blaze' in Chicago was very repetitive hard rock station with CHR-type DJ's. If you liked pop-metal groups like Def Leppard, Scorpions, or Billy Squire, this was the station for you because those same groups were played every hour. The station was very similar to co-owned KBER Ogden/Salt Lake City, where the pop-metal format originated. Sometimes the station had some great sets, but other times it was too repetitive and poppy. The DJ's were required to read a stanard script from que cards. For unknown reasons, they wouldn't touch harder/older stuff like Iron Maiden, Slayer, UFO, old Priest. WWBZ only played 1 Motorhead track, but they wouldn't identify the name of the group. Also, they never played Cheap Trick or Nelson, groups that would fit in nicely with the pop-metal format.

The playlist expanded alot after Marathon Media sold the station to Evergreen, but for some odd reason Evergreen added U2, an alternative/new wave group which did not fit at all. By the way, the current call letters are WKSC-FM.