Radio Rock is a Finnish

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radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...

owned by

Nelonen Media Nelonen Media is a Finnish commercial broadcasting company owned by Sanoma Media Finland, which is a part of Sanoma Sanoma Corporation (, , formerly SanomaWSOY) is Finland's largest media group and a European education publisher. The comp ...

, a part of the media group

Sanoma Sanoma Corporation (, , formerly SanomaWSOY) is Finland's largest media group and a European education publisher. The company has media business in Finland and an education business in twelve European countries, including Belgium, Netherlands, ...

. Radio Rock's broadcasting began on 1 January 2007, at 0.00, with the official spoken programs beginning on 15 January 2007. The first song that the station played was

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's "

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". Radio Rock's hosts are mostly former Radio City and YleX personnel like Klaus Flaming, Jussi Heikelä, Aki Linnanahde, and Jone Nikula. Radio Rock's official

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in its commercials is called " rockrooster." Radio Rock began its broadcast on the Internet on 2 July 2007.

References

External links

Official website
Radio stations in Finland Rock radio stations Radio stations established in 2007 {{Finland-media-stub