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Club Phusion Type Radio network Country United States Availability National, through online and HD Radio affiliates (see stations) Owner Clear Channel Communications Launch date March 31, 2006 Official website clubphusion.com Club Phusion is a HD2 Dance Top 40 station, one of three Dance-formatted HD2 stations programmed by Clear Channel Communications through their Format Lab, a new division set up to expand music formats over their HD2 subcarriers. It will also make the format available to other broadcasters as well.
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History
Club Phusion was launched on March 31, 2006 over the subcarrier channel of Top 40 Mainstream KZCH/Wichita, Kansas. At the time, it was one of eight Dance-formatted stations being offered by the Format Lab, along with WiLD en Espanol, Trancid, Workout Channel, Pride Radio, KDWB's Party Zone, WFLZ's House Party and Classic Dance. Since then, WiLD en Espanol, Trancid, and Workout Channel have been eliminated, while WFLZ and KDWB merged their formats with Club Phusion. Since June 2008, Club Phusion, Pride Radio and Classic Dance remain as the only Dance-formatted holdovers from the Format Lab, which since have been replaced by iheartradio.
On August 19, 2010, Club Phusion was added to the channel line-up on iHeartRadio...allowing people with iPhones, Blackberries, and Androids to listen for free with the iHeartRadio app. It is now also streaming on iheartradio.com.
Programming
At the start Club Phusion offered a heavily-focused Top 40 playlist that was mostly made up of current Dance hits and Rhythmic/Pop remixes, all commercial-free and jockless 24/7, but it has since been retooled into a Dance-focused approach. Even though they still feature current Rhythmic/Dance/Pop hits, there is now more emphasis on Club/Electronica product. The R&B/Hip-Hop elements have since been removed, thus allowing Club Phusion to become completely Pure Dance. Brian Fink, who resides at WFLZ/Tampa, Florida, is the current Program Director for Club Phusion.
Stations
These stations currently carry Club Phusion on their HD2 subchannels:
- WKST/Pittsburgh
- KDWB/Minneapolis-St. Paul (Which is billing it under the "Party Zone" name)
- WSNX/Grand Rapids, Michigan
- WVKS/Toledo, Ohio
- WQEN/Birmingham, Alabama
- WNOK/Columbia, South Carolina
- WNRW/Louisville
- KHYL/Sacramento
- WFLZ/Tampa
- WAKS/Cleveland
- KIBT/Colorado Springs, Colorado
- WDKF/Englewood/Dayton, Ohio
- WKDD/Akron
- WWVA/Atlanta (on HD3)
External links
Categories:- Clear Channel Communications
- Dance radio stations
- HD Radio
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