Top Music Stations in Massachusetts
You have a blast listening to music, while working, working out, and driving in your car. Sometimes though, you have troubles finding a music station that fits you. Sometimes your favorite station changes and what used to be a couple of minutes of commercials once an hour has become a couple of minutes of music once an hour! Or maybe you are new to Massachusetts, just visiting the area, or possibly just need a change. You have come to the right place.
Here we have all of the top Massachusetts music stations in one place, you are sure to find one that meets your tastes. Try out all of the Massachusetts stations and then give us your opinion on the best, worst, and any we don’t have on the list that should be. Whether you are in Massachusetts for a visit or have lived here for years, we want to hear your opinion.
We have catered our list of Massachusetts stations to the local opinions we have received so don’t stop sending them in. Music is an important part of our lives, in Massachusetts, and anywhere else. Music stations are also a personal thing. What is music to you? Is it what gets you through your daily commute in Massachusetts? Is it what you jam to in the shower? Is it what calms and centers you at work?
WUMB
Boston, MA
WUMB-FM (91.9 FM) in Boston, Massachusetts is the radio station of University of Massachusetts Boston. It broadcasts a folk and acoustic mix hosted by its staff weekdays. On weekends the station concentrates on traditional folk, Celtic, blues, afropop and world music including syndicated programs. Overnight programming starting at midnight and usually through 5am is a repeat of a portion of the previous day’s programming; an announcement of this fact is made at midnight. The station has received many awards for its folk music programming.
92.5 The River
Haverhill, MA
WXRV (The River 92.5 FM) is an adult album alternative radio station based in Andover, Massachusetts, with a signal covering most of northeast Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, and audible as far away as Plymouth, Massachusetts. The current station inherited a facility on the top floor of its studio now called the River Music Hall, which was designed for broadcasting live performances in the pre-rock era, and is used today to broadcast live performances and to record performances for later broadcast.
Rock 102
East Longmeadow, MA
WAQY (102.1 FM) is a Springfield, Massachusetts area classic rock radio station. Since the late 1980s, the station has been known as “Rock 102”. 102.1 FM in Springfield signed on as WCRX in 1953. The call letters stood for “Charles River Broadcasting extension. Both the Springfield and Boston stations programmed a classical music radio format overseen by Charles River Broadcasting owner Theodore Jones.
WHYN-FM
Springfield, MA
WHYN-FM (93.1 MHz “Mix 93.1”) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Springfield, and serving the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. It is owned by iHeartMedia and airs a Top 40 (CHR) format Aside from a period between 1985 and 1987 when the call sign was WHFM, the station has had the call letters WHYN-FM since it first signed on in 1946.
WQRC 99.9 FM
Hyannis, MA
WQRC (99.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Hot Adult Contemporary format. The station is currently owned by Sandab Communication Limited Partnership Ii and features programing from AP Radio. WQRC is a local radio station in the Cape Cod market with an award-winning local News Department that provides local news every hour, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. WQRC also provides local weather updates from a reliable source of local volunteer weather watchers who are contacted regularly by WQRC’s heritage weather forecaster Dave Read.
96.1 WSRS
Paxton, MA
WSRS is an American commercial radio station broadcasting on 96.1 FM. The station is licensed to Worcester, Massachusetts, and is owned by Clear Channel Communications. WSRS offers an adult contemporary music format focusing on the hits of the 1980s and 1990s. The station also mixes in occasional 1970s and 1960s big hits. The station also employs a moderate amount of current product.
99.5 WCRB
Boston, MA
WCRB’s mission is to bring the joy and beauty of classical music to as many people as possible, and to bring as many people as possible into the world of classical music. They aim to make classical music accessible to all.
WAAF
Boston, MA
WAAF (107.3 FM, simulcast on WKAF 97.7 FM) is a Boston, Massachusetts, area commercial Album Oriented Rock/Active rock radio station that mixes music that is popular in the modern rock, heavy metal and classic rock genres. Originally the station targeted the Worcester, Massachusetts market, but by the mid-1980s, WAAF had begun to direct most of its attention to the Boston radio market.
Discover WERS 88.9 FM
Boston, MA
WERS (88.9 FM) is one of Emerson College’s two radio stations, located in Boston, Massachusetts. Student-run and professionally managed, it serves eastern New England an eclectic mix of musical genres, and more live performances than any other station in the region. Programming features over 20 different styles of music and news, including live performances and interviews. WERS stands as the first non-commercial radio station in New England, and has been in operation since November 1949.
Kiss 108 FM
Medford, MA
WXKS-FM, better known as Kiss 108, is a radio station in Boston, Massachusetts, licensed to nearby Medford broadcasting a Top 40 (CHR) format. Owned by Clear Channel Communications, the station operates on 107.9 FM. Kiss 108 is one of the most prominent top 40 stations in New England, notable primarily for its annual Kiss Concert, which draws some of the best-known names in the pop music business to Mansfield’s Comcast Center concert venue each spring.
