YouFM was a
radio station
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broadcasting on 100.1 MHz serving
Patras
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,
Achaia
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and the western portion of
Greece
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. The station was a mixture of variety and
Top 40
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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 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= NCRTV/ 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