STINKAHBELL is a dubstep group containing hip hop/urban producer Anton Louis David Flanders, better known by his stage name Nutty P, and MC Janset Sayar.
WBLS continued as the flagship station of the Urban format; however, Kiss FM surpassed them in the ratings.
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From 1998 to 2012 he was the former co-host of the Frank and Wanda Morning Show alongside Wanda Smith on the Atlanta urban contemporary radio station WVEE.
"K-104" primarily began as a Disco station (with the slogans, "K-104 is Disco Soul!" and "K-104 is Disco"), then shifted to more mainstream Urban Contemporary fare after the end of the disco era while maintaining high ratings.
By the early 1980s it became one of the original stations in the United States to launch a format that would later become a staple for Urban contemporary, playing the latest Funk, R&B and New wave music, featuring local DJs such as "Humble Harve", Brian Roberts and "Lucky Pierre."
Their brand of music, named Raggafunkin' , is a blend of reggae, mestizo, hip hop and urban music.
WBLS in New York City, which is the flagship station of the urban contemporary format, was one of the first stations to introduce the urban AC format in 1994.
Officially, it is the first Radio One-owned station (along with Dallas/Fort Worth's KBFB, Philadelphia's WPHI-FM, which has changed to urban contemporary in 2011 & Indianapolis' WHHH) to be a rhythmic since the sale of former sister station WDHT in Dayton, OH and KTWN-FM in Minneapolis.
They were an urban contemporary until the 2000s, when they changed their direction to rhythmic contemporary and finally to contemporary hit radio in 2012 as the station was moved to the Mediabase contemporary hit radio panel.
Only since September 2006 when Roberts Broadcasting bought out Urban radio station WRJH did those call letters return to the market.
Before the station acquired the urban contemporary format, KBTE was an active rock station as "The Bat"; however the station began stunting with loops of The Go-Go's 1980s song We Got The Beat before the launch of The Beat.
At first, KOPW was reported to R&R as an urban contemporary station, but has since started adding artists like Lady Gaga, 3OH!3, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, David Guetta and Britney Spears to its playlist and has evolved to a broader Rhythmic direction, and in October 2009 was added to both Mediabase and Nielsen BDS' Rhythmic panels.
Playing a mix of urban contemporary and bubblegum pop Radio Bop was able to reach black audiences in parts of the Transvaal by broadcasting on the AM band from the "independent" bantustan of Bophuthatswana where it was licensed.
Dubtrap is a unique mashup of HipHop, Dub, Dubstep, Trap, Electronic and Urban Contemporary music packaged in highly experimental production by J-Flames.
However, by 1981 WLRS was beaten by rival Album Rock station WQMF in the ratings and in 1984, the station switched to Top 40, adding pop and urban artists like Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston to its playlist (while still leaning toward Rock), to fill the void left when WKJJ abandoned Top 40 for Adult Contemporary in 1982 and WJYL dropped Top 40 for urban contemporary in 1984.