SLAM! (Sound Lifestyle And More, stylized as ►SLAM! and previously SLAM!FM) is a Dutch commercial national

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that plays current-based rhythmic and dance hits. SLAM! has a strong commitment in breaking new dance music. The playlist and presentation serves as a combination of

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and 3FM. The station is broadcast in the

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and can be received via the either FM, Internet (worldwide) and cable. The broadcasting building and studios of SLAM! are located in

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. In 2012, it was announced that SLAM! has the largest market share among the country's young people (16.8%). It is a sister station of

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. In 2016, SLAM! was reported to have a 0% market share for the 65-or-more age group. Carlo de Boer, SLAM!’s General Manager, then argued that SLAM! listeners were 30 years old in average, and that this market share “distinguished” SLAM! from other radio stations.

History

The radio station started in the mid 1990s as New Dance Radio, a

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radio station. At that time the station was received only through

and the format consisted mainly of dance music (

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). Dutch entertainment company

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acquired the station in the late nineties, transforming it into Slam FM (named after one of ID&T's dance & lifestyle magazines at the time, Slam). Within a year, the name was changed into ID&T Radio, reflecting ID&T's strategy at the time to bundle all activities under one brand name, i.e. ID&T). At Koen van Tijn,

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and Lucas Degen. A year later the station got another new name, ID&T Radio, and

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was hired to lead the drive. ID&T Radio successfully bid for a nationwide FM frequency in Spring 2003 and changed its format to a more mainstream Top 40 genre, at least in its daytime programming schedule, whether in alternative remixing to comply with the rules on their airwave frequency-plot were imposed. Afterwards ID&T was accused and partially successfully sued by some competitors to have failed to meet its license requirements (including a playlist maximum of 7.5% chart-oriented hits and a minimum of 50% hits not older than one year). Sold late 2005,

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(ID&T) 66% of the shares of the station

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and

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. On 31 January 2005 the station was called back that it had a year earlier: ''SLAM!FM''. The station was mainly focus on young people. Thereafter was followed by several light format changes. Today there is no longer just dance and R&B, but also broadcast pop and rock. In February 2005, the name was changed to SLAM!FM again (This time with an exclamation mark in its name and logo, and written in all capitals; no further connections with the heretofore mentioned lifestyle magazine which ID&T had discontinued in the meantime). The music programming became even more commercially and mainstream focussed. On 30 June 2005 ID&T sold its remaining 33% share in SLAM!FM to 2HM Media for EUR 2.5 Million, allegedly due to irreconcilable differences regarding managing the radio station and the effective price to be paid for the initial sale of the 67% share. In October 2005, investment company 2H Media (led by former Veronica and Radio 538 director

, broadcaster Ruud Hendriks, and Marcel Dijkhuizen) acquired 67% of SLAM!FM. During the period between Christmas and New Year 2005 SLAM!FM broadcast SLAM!500, in where "the 500 best dance hits of Netherlands are broadcast". In June 2006 Harding and Hendriks filed a lawsuit against Stutterheim, because they refused the remaining 33% of the SLAM! FM to buy shares for 2.5 million euros. They thought they had paid too much for the previous packet. The judge agreed. On 1 February 2007

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is launched. SLAM!TV is television for and by young people. An interactive youth TV channel with 24 hours a day, 7 days a week the most popular music videos. In addition, viewers can upload their homemade videos, photos and audio files and make them available to friends and/or any other site visitors. Soon it will be possible to offer the films for broadcast on SLAM!TV. On 20 March 2007 forbids the judge SLAM! any longer improperly with

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to compete by "re-edits" and remixes of tunes from the charts. SLAM!FM broadcasts namely on a stipulated frequency at which it is not allowed. Also counted the transmitter according to the right-hand unduly background music note when making calls as music, making it thought to be able to meet the requirement that the music must fulfill 95 percent of the airtime between 7am and 7pm. On appeal to the Tribunal herein 5 December 2007 and has ruled SLAM!FM received equal in "too much talk" but proved wrong in terms of "re-edits". However, the ruling does not affect the current music interpretation because SLAM! for some time now sends no longer own edits. The former jingles were produced by ReelWorldEurope. That package is a jingle resing to that of the US radio station jingles WKTU in 2005. This, however, have been replaced by a custom package. On 19 November 2008 it was announced that SLAM!FM was reorganizing, in part due to a decrease in ad spending during the

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. Shareholder 2HMedia no additional budget proposed unavailable, which SLAM!FM forced to deal effectively with staff. Of the average of 31.6 people who had full-time employment in 2007, only 20.4 remained after the reorganization. In total, 14 people left the station, including several

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s including Daniël Lippens and

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. Several staff contracts were not renewed. On 27 April 2011 it was announced that

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the Zerobase Lot A05 has taken over. This acquisition was in effect by 1 June 2011. On 1 January 2012, Slam!FM in the hands of

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as a result of the deal between Talpa and RTL Group. Since then, the station part of the

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. In June 2011 SLAM!FM was bought by the 538 Groep (with his parent company RTL 2011-2012, Talpa 2012–present). On 2 November 2013

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left SLAM!FM, and switched to the radio station 538. This led to adoption of the 'Most Wanted' DJ

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. On 6 January 2014 De Avondploeg moved to Radio 538. De Avondploeg takes on Radio 538's old timeslot Mark Labrand over. The old time slot on SLAM!FM would be taken over by Igmar Felicia on January 6 with the program "Bij Igmar". He presents this program along with Joep Schrijvers. On 31 August 2015 the name of SLAM!FM changed to SLAM! On 3 October 2016, it was announced that

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sold SLAM! and Slam!TV to Radiocorp.

Programming rules

For SLAM! to get the broadcasting licence it must follow a set of guidelines for programming rules. Here're some in general, between 7am and 7pm: * No more than 7.5% of the tunes played is/has been on the Netherlands' pop charts; * 95% of the airtime must have music played (excluding speech delivered by DJs); * 50% of the tunes must have been released within 12 months; * No classical and jazz music is played; * At least 50% of the programming must be presented in Dutch or Frisian. In addition, there must be at least one news-related or -dedicated segment per hour, every hour between 7am and 11pm.

Current DJs

* Audiotricz *

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Brennan Heart Fabian Bohn (born 2 March 1982), better known by his stage name Brennan Heart, is a Dutch DJ and a hardstyle producer. Career Blademasterz In 2002, Fabian Bohn co-founded with Pieter Heijnen (known as DJ Thera) a duo named Blademasterz concent ...

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Eelke Kleijn Eelke van Kleijn (born June 11, 1983) is a Dutch producer and DJ hailing from Rotterdam. He is known mostly for his electronic dance music. Nowadays he produces music for other media, such as television series, commercials, movie trailers and ...

Firebeatz Firebeatz is a Dutch DJ and music production duo consisting of Tim Benjamin Smulders (; born 14 August 1985) and Jurre van Doeselaar (; born 7 July 1987). The duo formed in Tilburg in 2008, and gained fame in the EDM scene through their dance f ...

* Floris Tausent * Franky Rizardo * Gijs Alkemade * Giorgio Hokstam * GLOWINTHEDARK * Jochem Hamerling * Joep Schrijvers *

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* MC Villain * Michiel Jurrjens *

Nicole Moudaber Nicole Moudaber is a Lebanese/British event promoter, record label founder, radio personality, and DJ/ producer. She is the head of her own imprint MOOD Records and runs an award-winning weekly radio show, In The MOOD. Biography Nicole Moud ...

Oliver Heldens Olivier J. L. Heldens (born 1 February 1995) is a Dutch DJ and electronic music producer from Rotterdam. He is regarded as a pioneer of the future house genre, propelling it to international attention and scoring numerous chart successes, includ ...

* Olivier Weiter *

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R3hab Fadil El Ghoul ( ar, فضيل الغول; born 2 April 1986), performing under the stage name R3hab (stylized in all caps as R3HAB; pronounced "rehab"), is a Dutch-Moroccan disc jockey and music producer. Ranked at number 12 on the DJ Mag Top 1 ...

* Rens Goseling * Robin Leféber *

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* Sanne van der Meijden * Sunnery James & Ryan Marcinano * W&W * Yellow Claw

Former DJs

* Alex Oosterveen *

Armin van Buuren Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren ( , ; born 25 December 1976) is a Dutch DJ and record producer from Leiden, South Holland. Since 2001, he has hosted ''A State of Trance'' (ASOT), a weekly radio show, which is broadcast to nearly 40&nbs ...

* Bram Krikke * Daniël Lippens * Dave Leusink * Dimitris Kops *

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Ferry Corsten Ferry Corsten (; born 4 December 1973) is a Dutch disc jockey, record producer and remixer from Rotterdam. He is well known for producing many pioneering trance tracks during the 1990s–2000s under his numerous aliases, including System F, Moon ...

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Headhunterz Willem Rebergen (born 12 September 1985), better known by his stage name ''Headhunterz'', is a Dutch DJ and music producer. Rebergen is also a voice actor. He has done dubbing for several movies and TV series. He started his career in 2005 wor ...

* Koen van Tijn *

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* Igmar Felicia * Ivo van Breukelen * Jeroen Post * Jordi Warners * Jurjen Gofers *

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* Lex Gaarthuis * Lucas Degen * Mark Labrand *

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Mental Theo Theodorus Josephus Jan Nabuurs (born 14 February 1965), better known by his stage name Mental Theo is a Dutch record producer and DJ. He has recorded two studio albums: ''Back Once Again'' (2005) and ''Jumpstyle Madness'' (2007). He also perform ...

* Michael Blijleven * Niels de Koning *

Nicky Romero Nick Rotteveel (; born January 6, 1989), professionally known as Nicky Romero or Monocule, is a Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer from Amerongen, Utrecht Province. He has worked with, and received support from DJs, such as Tiësto, Fedde l ...

* Nicky Verhage * Rob Toonen * Robin Velderman *

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Programs

References

External links

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