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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, alongside Christmas recordings from 80s artists from outside the decade. BlackLight Radio will also feature Christmas greetings from United States military personnel to their families in…

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 get… absolutely nothing until Loudcity returns. The good news is, there are several ways still to listen to BlackLight Radio: SHOUTCAST You can launch the Shoutcast…

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 turns midnight 2013 in American Samoa, the Midway Islands, & Niue! LONDON: PartyMixes air from 10 am New Year’s Eve to 11 am New Year’s Day….

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 supported. For those of you who follow us on Facebook, you already knew that we were $15 short this month in covering our licensing fees. After…

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!!! This is the third year for the awards presenting by the veteran news-site for the internet radio industry, and the first year stations could submit their…

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 first, & best place to find 80s music on CD are thrift stores. In the Tulsa area, we have the Salvation Army Family Thrift Stores. I’ve…

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, the money you send goes into our PayPal account. PayPal takes 2.9% plus $0.30 off the top of every donation, so your donation minus 2.9%, minus…

* * * * * 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 (many REAL!) and silly spooky 80s hits tomorrow afternoon. * * * * * Due to technical issues this afternoon, we will be re-broadcasting Shar’s show…

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, many, many more PartyMixes are coming to BlackLight Radio for Friday & Saturday nights. If you’re unfamiliar, PartyMixes are the pumped-up, extended versions of your favorite…

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 our way through our second year of all-80s programming, a few questions have come to mind about what YOU want to hear on BlackLight Radio. The…