Vancouver radio station 102.7 FM is blending issues up as NOW!radio

In the meantime, PEAK FM, which used to are living at 102.7 FM, is shifting to HD2 radio with its present alternative-music structure

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The previous Top FM radio station at 102.7 at the dial pivoted at 1:02 p.m. Monday to a brand new tune structure.

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Rebranded as NOW!radio, the station is blending present top-40 artists like Dua Lipa and Harry Kinds with choices from the ’80s and ’90s, with the hosts unfastened to combine issues up as they see have compatibility — so anything else from Johnny Money to Infamous B.I.G. may to find its method onto the air.

The hosts are unfastened now not simply to play what they would like, however to discuss anything else they would like, and there can be a number of dialog along side the tune, in keeping with the station.

So what’s up with The Top? It’s shifting to the HD2 FM radio structure on the similar frequency. Listeners preferring that station’s alternative-music structure can song in with an HD-enabled automotive radio or on any streaming platform.

“It’s actually superior to guide this staff down this new and thrilling trail the place we will be able to defy the norm and construct one thing actually cool,” says Top program director Russell James in a free up.

Some present hosts are shifting to the HD2 structure, similar to Charis Hogg and Jeremy Baker within the mornings and tune director Jason Manning within the afternoons. Top FM introduced in Vancouver again in 2008.

James says the playlist can be extra numerous on account of the transfer clear of conventional FM. Top can now be discovered at thepeak.fm, on a wise speaker through asking it to play “The Top dot fm,” or on an HD-enabled radio at 102.7 HD2.