The phrase "alternative station" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a radio or television station that plays different types of music or programming compared to mainstream options.
Example: "I prefer listening to the alternative station because they play a wider variety of indie music."
Alternatives: "independent station" or "non-mainstream station".
When I keep the alternative station on, people prefer it".
In January Infinity flipped its Washington alternative station WHFS-FM (99.1) to Spanish, citing poor ratings.
By the mid-90s she had segued into radio, becoming a founder member of the alternative station XFM before being poached by Radio 1.
"It has a good dance vibe to it," said Aaron Zytle, program director for KRXP, an alternative station in Colorado Springs.
"We will be watching the fate of 6Music very closely, but welcome the emphasis on this being more firmly positioned as an alternative station, with a greater depth and context to its output.
Xfm, once a great alternative station, is sounding dull and stale, many of the local stations in the One Network are very poor editorially, and the AM network Gold is in structural decline.
"Most of the alternative stations have gone decidedly male," Mr. Kingston said.
Mr. Freedman persuaded program directors at alternative stations in Los Angeles and Dallas to play the record, and stations in San Francisco and Seattle then followed suit.
And most of the formerly free-wheeling alternative stations pursued them with a harder-sounding, more tightly formatted playlist.
C18 HOUSE & HOME F1-10 THURSDAY STYLES G1-10 ARTS E1-14 Rock Fading Out on Radio Radio executives have switched the formats of four modern-rock, or alternative, stations in big media markets in as many months.
Early that year, the guitar-heavy "Nevermind" by Nirvana -- a band that only alternative stations had played before -- knocked Michael Jackson out of the top slot on the Billboard album chart.
