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MEGA (radio station)

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City
  
Gomel  Belarus

Format
  
CHR/Dance

First air date
  
28 January 2012

Broadcast area
  
Worldwide (Internet Radio)  Belarus  Russia  Ukraine  Moldova  Lithuania  Latvia  Estonia  Georgia  Armenia  Azerbaijan  Kazakhstan  Kyrgyzstan  Uzbekistan  Turkmenistan  Tajikistan

Slogan
  
«Electronic dance radio» (28 January - 1 October 2012) «Top Non-Stop»

Frequency
  
Internet Radio 65,9 and 95,5 MHz in Sankt-Peterburg, RDS: -

«MEGA» — Belarusian musical and entertaining Internet radio station focusing mainly on club music – as trance, techno, house, electro, dubstep and musical directions adjacent by it.

Contents

The basis of broadcast forming by the most popular hits and new songs. A ratio of domestic songs to import are 50/50. Key feature of radio station is advance of young DJs and not skilled radio jockeys, it is a basis of strategy of «MEGA» Internet radio station.

History

The radio station began test broadcasts on January 28, 2012, The radio station was broadcast with faults, with often delays broadcasting of shows. During the test broadcasts is often played different music (mostly trance), with often repetitions.

The full broadcast of Internet radio station «MEGA» began February 13, 2012. Since then, the radio station increases the amount of shows and the amount of RJs and DJs. The radio starts first real time shows. As soon began full broadcasting station stops the shows from February 14, and disappear from the studio all the DJs and RJs. The radio starts to spin the music non-stop. Following this incident, the majority of employees leave the radio by their own. A week later, broadcast was restored. From this moment on the radio station canceled real time broadcasting.

In the month of March began an active influx of DJs, radio station start shows such as: «Dutch House», «Electric Shock", and «Trance Formation». The radio station starts show "Others" - a show that introduces the audience radio club «MEGA» for other styles of music (jazz, reggae, rap, rock, metal, chanson, etc.) as well as with groups that are in these styles of play . Here you can hear all the unknown for clubman styles and groups, from jazz to metal to hear their story of origin and the differences from each other, and meet interesting people from the areas of theater and cinema, show business, etc. This program helps beginners and bands to get up . Among them are mostly of Gomel metal scene: CANADA, ATOM's, as well as groups from Ukraine and Russia: TGDM, Cry of the Soul, Robin Good, Consul and others.

At April 16 started the official website of radio station «MEGA».

In July, the format of radio station starts sliding towards pop music, but management of radio station denies that fact.

On August 1, 2012 planning to open a radio channel broadcasting to residents of Siberia and the Far East - «MEGA» (+3), «MEGA» (+7).

Broadcast

Radio is available 24/7.

Broadcast consists of a mix of DJs and speaking shows. The radio doesn't have a real time shows, all of the shows are recorded before.

In the radio station «MEGA», there are many authors of the shows. They correspond to the tastes of different audiences. Lovers of cinema invites Show «Kinovarka». All the passions of youth can be learned from the show «Contacts». A conversation with interesting people from the world of show business in the «Interview On-Petersburg». Exposure «MEGA» well as music shows, such as «2 in 1», «ZvezdoChas», «ClubOutside», «Trance Formation», etc.

As for the music filling the radio broadcast of «MEGA», is a prerequisite - electronic and dance music (CHR/Dance). To meet the demand of listeners, the station collaborates with artists and producers. The work of DJ-s - an indicator of the radio. More broadcasting time given to the DJ's mixes. The radio can be heard of DJs from the CIS countries and abroad.

Distribution

Internet space.

The area, which is broadcasting and retransmission, almost completely covers the providers of Belarus, as well as a number of Russian and Ukrainian ISPs. Listening is completely free. In addition, some programs are broadcast on radio in other countries that substantially increases the target audience of the project.

Programmes

  • Non-stop Music - music non-stop.
  • MEGA Hits - Block of music hits 70-80-90-00h period.
  • In an interview from St. Petersburg - Lera Piterskaya authoring show.
  • 2 in 1 - A show with two tracks that are very similar to each other. Someone says it's plagiarism, and some say that this is a cover version. You will hear two tracks and compare how they look and find out who performs them, and learn to translate the tracks of a foreign language to Russian.
  • The Coordinates - a special project of the online magazine "The New Wave Media."
  • ClubOutside - a radio show that conveys the beauty of the mixes and compilations, in which the author can express his thoughts or just make a collection. This is an opportunity to get acquainted with the best new electronic music and enjoy the unique atmosphere of trance music. Forget for an hour and enjoy the world of emotions and associations received from the music.
  • Kinovarka - a show about the film.
  • ZvezdoChas - that show introduces you to a musician. You'll learn about it all the biography, as well as hear his music.
  • Trance Formation - a show of music, trance.
  • Ego Chart
  • Clubs Of The World
  • Closed Programmes

  • Others
  • ElectroShock
  • Dutch House
  • Euphoria Of Sound
  • Let's change things?!
  • Russian Dance
  • Dubstep mealtime
  • World DJs
  • MEGA Old
  • MEGA Russian
  • MEGA Trance
  • MEGA House
  • MEGA Dance
  • MEGA Techno
  • MEGA Electro
  • Presenters

  • RJ Valeria
  • Valeria Piterskaya
  • RJ Mashell
  • Natalia Kuznetsova
  • Tatiana Taganova
  • DJ Alex Van Seven
  • DJ Kostya Sergeev
  • Sveta Sova
  • Alan Sierra
  • DJ Dima Still
  • Beatkoff
  • DJ Patap
  • DJ Paky
  • ISj
  • Steve Naked
  • DJ Mirchik
  • DJ Yanni
  • DJ Kan
  • DJ Vinich
  • EX Presenters

  • RJ Vadim
  • Serzh
  • DJ Paul Scriptum
  • DJ Alexsei Shumakov
  • DJ IT
  • Dmitriy NRj
  • DJ Vamp1r
  • Fred
  • Tanya Baltunova
  • Exor
  • DJ Fayross
  • Alex CJ Wise
  • Tugvo
  • DJ Deni$off
  • Yumbrique (DJ Able)
  • DJ KoToFF
  • DJ Paradizze
  • DJ Yura Bogdanchikov
  • DJ Sergey Pyatnizkiy
  • DJ Brick (moved to MFM Ukraine)
  • DJ DJorg
  • DJ Black Xandra
  • DJ Prado
  • References

    MEGA (radio station) Wikipedia