Sentence examples for alternative stations from inspiring English sources

"Most of the alternative stations have gone decidedly male," Mr. Kingston said.

And most of the formerly free-wheeling alternative stations pursued them with a harder-sounding, more tightly formatted playlist.

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.

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.

Do we serve people who are locked in time in the 60's, or do we try to stay current and expand and grow to bring in new people under the Pacifica umbrella?" Pacifica was conceived in 1946 by a group of conscientious objectors as a network of grass-roots, alternative stations free of corporate control and dedicated to peace.

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.

"It has a good dance vibe to it," said Aaron Zytle, program director for KRXP, an alternative station in Colorado Springs.

By the mid-90s she had segued into radio, becoming a founder member of the alternative station XFM before being poached by Radio 1.

In October, Cumulus Media bought the station, which was called WFME, from Family Stations, a nonprofit Christian organization, and changed the call letters to WRXP, which had most recently been used by an alternative station at 101.9 FM.