A pair of Las Vegas area Rock stations are digging into the past.
Beasley Media’s Rock/Alternative “X107.5” KXTE Pahrump is promoting the Labor Day Weekend as “Xtreme Radio Gets Its Balls Back” as the station returns to a harder playlist focusing on music from the station’s heyday in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
In a video announcing the move, Music Director/midday host Carlota Gonzalez said, “All weekend long we’re going to be celebrating the Xtreme Radio you know and love. From an era when times were simpler and things were cheaper.” She continued, “When the music was incredible. Tool, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Papa Roach, Metallica, Slipknot. All those things dominated our radio at the time. This weekend we celebrate that time. But we don’t really end there. From here on out, Xtreme Radio is going to be authentically Xtreme Radio via 2025. No, it can’t be the same as in the year 2000. It just can’t.”
Meanwhile, Heftel Broadcasting’s “Highway Rock” 99.7 KHYZ-HD3 Mountain Pass CA/Las Vegas and simulcasters 96.9 KHDR Lenwood/Barstow and 94.9 KHRQ Baker CA is paying tribute to the “Pure Rock” incarnation of 105.5 KNAC Los Angeles from the late 80s/early 90s.
VP/Rock Programming ‘Gonzo Greg’ Spillane, who began his career at KNAC and rose from intern to morning host, is over seeing the “Pure Rock Rewind”. The move also sees KHRQ take on the KNAC call letters.
This story first appeared on radioinsight.com