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  • Merry Christmas from BlackLight Radio!!!

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    BlackLight Radio has just begun our “50 Hours Of Christmas!” Over the next 50 hours, this internet-only radio station will play a mix of Christmas hits from the 80s,…

  • Tuesday Night Loudcity Issues

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    Loudcity has had a hard drive failure (multiple hard drive failures?) Tuesday night, and as a result if you click the play button on our front page, you will…

  • Happy 80s New Year!

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    In honor of the arrival of the New Year around the planet, BlackLight Radio will be playing PartyMixes from midnight 2013 in Christmas Island, Kiribati & Samoa, until it…

  • BlackLight Radio Loses Music License

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    Hi, this is Gene Savage, owner of BlackLight Radio. We’ve streamed the 80s greatest hits around the clock, around the world since 2010, and we have always been listener…

  • Finalist for Best Single-Stream Webcaster!

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    It is with a chest bursting with pride that I am announcing BlackLight Radio has been selected as a finalist for this year’s RAIN award for Best Single-Stream Webcaster!!!…

  • Mining For 80s Gold

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    Occasionally someone will ask me, “where do you find all of the great 80s tunes you play on BlackLight Radio?” Today, I will share my “secrets” with you. The…

  • Where Does My Donation Go?

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    It’s a very reasonable question: when you donate to BlackLight Radio, where does your donation go? When you click the “donate” button in the right-hand column on the webpage,…

  • Shar’s Show To Re-Air Tonight!

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    * * * * * UPDATE: Shar’s show will repeat again Sunday afternoon at 1pm central time; gather around the fire with your friends and listen to scary stories…

  • BlackLight Radio Improvements Rolling Out

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    I’m making several subtle but positive changes to the music mix on BlackLight Radio over the next couple of weeks; I think you’re going to like the changes! First,…

  • Building The Perfect 80s Radio Station

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    One of the challenges of programming a radio station is not just playing what sounds great to the staff, but playing what the audience wants to hear. Now working…