YouFM was a

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broadcasting on 100.1 MHz serving

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Achaia Achaea () or Achaia (), sometimes transliterated from Greek as Akhaia (, ''Akhaïa'' ), is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Western Greece and is situated in the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. The ...

and the western portion of

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. The station was a mixture of variety and

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. The station was originally launched in 1989, as Step FM. In 2004, Step FM started partnership with 95.2 Athens DeeJay to rebroadcast programs and was renamed Patras DeeJay. After three years, in 2007 the partnership with the Attica station was dissolved and renamed YouFM with its official program starting on October 1 of the same year. Constantinos Saradis was the program director in the period of 2007 up to 2010. Then, the station changed, Diamantis Kyriakakis, as the last program director made a lot of changes to the program, and also in the music. From the summer of 2010 until its closure, it was the most popular radio station in Patras for all ages especially in the target group from 20 to 35 years old.

Slogan

Its slogan till 2010 was ''O freskos ixos tis Patras'' (which means The Fresh Sound of Patras). In 2011, a new slogan added along with previous one, the ''No1 xari se sena'' (No1 thanks to YOU!). Diamantis Kiriakakis after May 2012 replaced this slogan with the new one ''To Agapimeno Sou Radiofono'' that means «Your Favorite Radio» or «Your Favorite Station». Another slogan was «The best foreign music in the city».

Closure

In early 2020, the

NCRTV The Greek National Council for Radio and Television (NCRTV) (Greek: Εθνικό Συμβούλιο Ραδιοτηλεόρασης, ''Ethnikó Simvúlio Radhiotileórasis'', ''ESR'') is an independent supervisory and regulatory administrative autho ...

decided to delete YouFM 100.1 as for a long time it has not submitted information about the inner workings of the business that operated it.{{cite web, url=http://repository-esr.ekt.gr/esr/bitstream/20.500.12039/18501/1/6_2020.pdf, title=NCRTV 6-2020, publisher=

/ NDCGR, date=2020-01-21, accessdate=2020-02-12 However, it continued to operate until the end of the following year when it permanently stopped broadcasting.

References

External links

YouFM 100.1 - official website
Radio stations in Greece Mass media in Western Greece Mass media in Patras