Power Hit Radio is an Estonian dance music radio station owned by Mediainvest Holding AS in

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

which belongs to Swedish media company

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(MTG). It transmits on Tallinn 102.1 FM, Pärnu 103.9 FM, Tartu 89.7 FM, Rakvere 92.5, and Viljandi 105.4.

History

Power Hit Radio started in 2000 with only Tallinn's FM frequency and playing

progressive dance music Progressive house is a subgenre of house music. The progressive house style emerged in the early 1990s. It initially developed in the United Kingdom as a natural progression of American and European house music of the late 1980s.Gerard, Morgan; ...

by DJ-s and from vinyls. In the autumn in 2000 it became Tele 2 Power Hit Radio and the format changed a bit, evolving into DJ-s who talked between the songs and also music was changed from progressive dance music to any kind of

dance music Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded danc ...

, including urban and pop, which it stayed today. In the spring of 2003, Media: Power Hit Radio opened in

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. In March 2004 it opened frequency in Pärnu 103.9 FM. December 2006 saw the introduction of Power Hit Radio on satellite Sirius 3. Tartu 89.7 FM was opened in January 2007 and in April 2007 Power Hit Radio opened on Elion's digital IPTV.

Company

is a Swedish media corporation which has many trademarks and companies like Viasat, TV1000, Viasat Explorer, Viasat History, TV3, 3+, TV8, ZTV, Power Hit Radio, Star FM, NRJ FM (only Swedish) and Rix FM in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland and Romania.

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