MEGA

Gomel  Belarus
Broadcast area	Worldwide (Internet Radio)  Belarus  Russia  Ukraine  Moldova  Lithuania  Latvia  Estonia  Georgia  Armenia  Azerbaijan  Kazakhstan  Kyrgyzstan  Uzbekistan  Turkmenistan  Tajikistan
Frequency	Internet Radio 65,9 and 95,5 MHz in Sankt-Peterburg, RDS: -
Programming
Language(s)	Russian
Format	CHR/Dance
Ownership
Owner	M-Мedia
History
First air date	28 January 2012
Links
Website	www.megaradio.by

«MEGA» is a Belarusian musical and entertaining Internet radio station focusing mainly on club music – as trance, techno, house, electro, dubstep and musical directions adjacent by it.

The station broadcasts the most popular hits and new songs with a ratio of domestic songs to imports of 50/50. A key feature of the radio station is using young DJs and not skilled radio jockeys.

History

The radio station began test broadcasts on January 28, 2012. The radio station was broadcast with faults with delays often happening during the broadcasting of shows. During test broadcasts the station played different music (mostly trance) with repetitions often happening.

The full broadcast of the internet radio station «MEGA» began February 13, 2012. Since then, the radio station has increased the number of shows and the number of RJs and DJs. Although the radio station started to broadcast live shows it soon stopped from February 14 with DJs and RJs disappearing from the studio with music being played non-stop. Following this incident, the majority of employees left the station. A week later, broadcast was restored and from this moment the radio station cancelled live broadcasting.

During March an active influx of DJs began and station started shows such as «Dutch House», «Electric Shock", and «Trance Formation». The radio station started the show "Others"; a show that introduced the audience, as part of radio club «MEGA», to other styles of music (jazz, reggae, rap, rock, metal, chanson, etc.) as well as with groups that are in linked to these styles of play. Here you can hear all the unknown club styles and groups, from jazz to metal and hear their story of origin and their differences, and meet interesting people from the areas of theatre and cinema, show business, etc. This program helps beginners and bands to get publicity. Among them are mostly bands of the Gomel metal scene including CANADA and ATOM's, as well as groups from Ukraine and Russia (TGDM, Cry of the Soul, Robin Good, Consul and others).

On April 16 2012 they launched their official website.

In July, the format of radio station started moving towards pop music, but management of radio station denies this.

On August 1, 2012 planning was made to open a radio channel broadcasting to residents of Siberia and the Far East - «MEGA» (+3), «MEGA» (+7).

Broadcast

Radio is available 24/7.

Broadcast consists of a mix of DJs and speech shows. The radio doesn't have live shows as all of the shows are recorded beforehand.

In the radio station «MEGA», there are many authors of the shows. They correspond to the tastes of different audiences. Lovers of cinema are invited to listen to the show «Kinovarka». All the passions of youth can be learned from the show «Contacts». Conversations with interesting people from the world of show business are broadcast in the show «Interview On-Petersburg». The station also broadcasts Exposure «MEGA» as well as music shows, such as «2 in 1», «ZvezdoChas», «ClubOutside», «Trance Formation», etc.

As for the music filling the radio broadcast of «MEGA», electronic and dance music (CHR/Dance) is a prerequisite. To meet the demand of listeners, the station collaborates with artists and producers. The work of DJs is an indicator of the radio. More broadcasting time is given to the DJ's mixes. The radio can be heard with DJs from the CIS countries and abroad.

Distribution

Internet space.

The area to which is broadcast and re-transmitted almost completely covers the providers of Belarus, as well as a number of Russian and Ukrainian ISPs. Listening is completely free. In addition, some programs are broadcast on radio in other countries that substantially increases the target audience of the project.

Programmes

• Non-stop Music - music non-stop.
• MEGA Hits - Block of music hits 70-80-90-00h period.
• In an interview from St. Petersburg^[1] - Lera Piterskaya authoring show.
• 2 in 1^[2] - A show with two tracks that are very similar to each other. Someone says it's plagiarism, and some say that this is a cover version. You will hear two tracks and compare how they look and find out who performs them, and learn to translate the tracks of a foreign language to Russian.
• The Coordinates^[3] - a special project of the online magazine "The New Wave Media."
• ClubOutside^[4] - a radio show that conveys the beauty of the mixes and compilations, in which the author can express his thoughts or just make a collection. This is an opportunity to get acquainted with the best new electronic music and enjoy the unique atmosphere of trance music. Forget for an hour and enjoy the world of emotions and associations received from the music.
• Kinovarka - a show about the film.
• ZvezdoChas - that show introduces you to a musician. You'll learn about it all the biography, as well as hear his music.
• Trance Formation - a show of music, trance.
• Ego Chart
• Clubs Of The World

Presenters

• RJ Valeria
• Valeria Piterskaya
• RJ Mashell
• Natalia Kuznetsova
• Tatiana Taganova
• DJ Alex Van Seven
• DJ Kostya Sergeev
• Sveta Sova
• Alan Sierra
• DJ Dima Still
• Beatkoff
• DJ Patap
• DJ Paky
• ISj
• Steve Naked
• DJ Mirchik
• DJ Yanni
• DJ Kan
• DJ Vinich

References