For the first time since early 2013, Youngstown has a Hip-Hop station of its very own. Over/Under LLC, a new operator created to serve this very purpose, has launched LOUD 102.3 on WLOA Farrell/Youngstown. The new station debuted on Monday, April 15 at 5pm following a week-long “Drakeover” featuring nonstop hits by superstar artist Drake. Listeners to the station will discover the biggest hits in Hip-Hop from artists such as Drake, Cardi B, Khalid, Meek Mill, Post Malone, and J Cole.
WLOA is the third affiliate of Pat “DJ Grooves” Cerullo’s recently launched LOUD radio concept. Cerullo, the former Program Director for KTFM (Energy 94.1) San Antonio has also worked at stations in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Washington DC during his radio career and produces the nationally syndicated In The Mix with DJ Grooves which will be heard on LOUD 102.3. The LOUD brand can also be heard on Cerullo’s LOUD 99.3 W257DI Reading, PA and is licensed to Adams Radio’s LOUD 103.3 W277AK Fort Wayne, IN.
Cerullo says, “Our Loud team designed a strategic and customized recipe to fit each individual market’s competitive landscape in Reading, Fort Wayne, and now Youngstown. By providing market specific imaging and writing, a station voice, individualized music logs, and social content for each station, all via barter, the Loud brand is positioned to grow rapidly within the fast changing economic climate that our medium faces. The current hip hop and rhythmic music cycle works in our favor as well. We’re only going to get LOUDER!”
Youngstown has been without a Hip-Hop station of its very own since 2013 when WRBP (101.9 JAMZ) was sold to a Christian operator.
