European Hit Radio

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European Hit Radio (EHR) is one of the very first commercial radio stations in Baltic States. This radio focuses on reflecting the current situation in European music charts. Every week the European Hit Radio servers automatically check each European country's single charts, index songs in order of their position on the chart and, with a special secret script, automatically make a playlist. This script is programmed to manage the playlist so that one can turn on the radio at any time and, in a few hours, know the current situation in the European music market - what music is most popular in Europe right now. The script also can avoid repeats of the most popular song and make the playlist very interesting. That is why the station's new name is European Hit Radio.

1 History
2 Schedule
3 Broadcasting
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

EHR's history can be traced back to 1992, when Uģis Polis and Jānis Krauklis founded Radiodejas, which was the first non-governmental radio station in Latvia and Lithuania. Radiodejas broadcasted from a flat in Terbatas street, Riga and reached only the city of Riga.

In 1994 they renamed the radio station Super FM. As Super FM the station became very popular in Latvia with easy listening and popular music, charts and interesting broadcasts. Top 40 became a weekend party because Super FM discotheque was opened near downtown.

In 2002 European Hit Radio started a new policy - to reflect the music situation in Europe with fresh music and charts from all European countries.

In 2004 European Hit Radio went off air in Estonia after losing broadcasting license competition to a new Adult Contemporary station Raadio 3

[edit] Schedule

Now on EHR one can hear huge numbers of very interesting broadcasts like Morning Show with up-tempo music, European hit non-stop, UK, Germany charts, Airplay top 40, Urban/Black Top 40, European Dance Traxx Top 40, European album top 50, Billboard Top 40, most popular music television MTV and VIVA airplay hits.

Party Service, with fresh club tracks and information about club life in the Baltic States, airs on Friday and Saturday evenings at 21:00, live from Club Essential, all Friday and Saturday night.

EHR Listener's day top 5 at 17:00, top 9 at 21:20 and of course listener's European Hit Radio Top 40 each Sunday morning at 11:00.

[edit] Broadcasting

European Hit Radio reaches Latvian and Lithuanian territory. Transmitters are in almost every big city.

In Latvia	Frequency
Riga	104.3 FM
Kuldīga	107.4 FM
Rēzekne	105.1 FM
Jelgava	104.3 FM
Ventspils	107.4 FM
Liepāja	96.1 FM
Gulbene	88.4 FM
Cēsis	99.1 FM
Talsi	100.8 FM