Slam

Slam, SLAM or SLAMS may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

In music

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Other uses in arts and entertainment

SLAM! (radio station)

SLAM! (Sound Lifestyle And More, previously SLAM!FM) is a commercial, national radio station in the Netherlands, playing pop, R&B and dance music. The station can be received via (listen via a live stream) the ether FM, Internet, and cable. The building of SLAM! is based in Hilversum. In 2012 it was announced that Slam! has the largest market share among young people: 16.8%. They can be picked up on FM in a large part of the country, it's a sister station of Radio 538.

History

The radio station started in the mid 1990s as New Dance Radio, a cable radio station. that time the station was received only through cable and music choice consisted mainly of dance music (techno, trance, hardcore). Dutch entertainment company ID&T acquired the station in the late nineties, transforming it into Slam FM (named after one of ID&T's dance & lifestyle magazines at the time, Slam). Within a year, the name was changed into ID&T Radio, reflecting ID&T's strategy at the time to bundle all activities under one brand name, i.e. ID&T). At Koen van Tijn, Emile van Schaik and Lucas Degen. A year later the station got another new name, ID&T Radio, and Robin Albers was hired to lead the drive.

Slam!TV

Slam!TV is a youth music television channel that airs mainly music videos. Radio station Slam!FM launched the channel on 1 February 2007. The channel is owned by the 538 Groep. The channel broadcasts 24 hours a day. It airs across the Netherlands.

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