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Radio Margaritaville is a worldwide Internet radio station and SiriusXM Satellite Radio station (Ch. 24) owned by the estate of Jimmy Buffett. It features 24-hour music and live broadcasts of Jimmy Buffett's concerts.




History


Buffett was inspired to create Radio Margaritaville after listening to radio stations in Australia, Key West, and to WOYS in Apalachicola, Florida. He was attracted to the channels' wide range of programming, as opposed to the homogenized playlists he heard elsewhere. He contacted an old friend, Steve Huntington, who agreed to leave terrestrial radio to serve as program director for Buffett's new venture. "When we first started talking about this, we didn't know the Internet would be the route," Huntington said in a 2001 interview. "We figured it would be done in syndication or something. But we started doing some shows on the main Margaritaville site in 1998 and the response was very good." Buffett modeled the channel after pirate radio stations in terms of having no restrictions on what songs to play. It also recalled free-form FM radio of the 1970s with diverse playlists featuring music in the rock, jazz, blues, and folk genres. By 2002, Radio Margaritaville was one of the most popular Internet stations, though it had yet to build an audience that would rival small-market radio stations.
Radio Margaritaville joined Sirius Satellite Radio in 2005 on channel 31 (moving to XM 24 May 4, 2011) and Dish Network channel 6031. It became the first internet station to transition to mainstream radio, and can also be heard on radio. On November 12, 2008, following the merger of Sirius and XM Radio, the station was added to the XM lineup at channel 55 (moving to XM 24 May 4, 2011). Radio Margaritaville's program director is Kirsten Winquist and the General Manager is Coleman Sisson. On air talent consists of hosts Kirsten Winquist (VP Programming), Sara West, Jasmine Shinness, Renee Adams, JD Spradlin and Krystal King. The station is broadcast from The Margaritaville Resort locations in Orlando and Nashville. Radio Margaritaville now has a stinger often heard between songs of a steel drum with a few notes of "Margaritaville", adding to station identity.
SiriusXM's station, "The Highway," added a Friday afternoon-drive program, Music Row Happy Hour, to its lineup in 2016. Hosted by Buzz Brainard, the show is broadcast from the Margaritaville Restaurant in Nashville and has featured visits from such artists as Brett Eldredge, Maren Morris, and Blake Shelton. The show "created a natural cross-promotion with Jimmy Buffett’s Radio Margaritaville channel." As of August 2017, Radio Margaritaville averages three million unique listeners a week.
Buffett died September 1, 2023; the service was still operational at the time.




Artists played


Jimmy Buffett
Mac McAnally
Jack Johnson
Kenny Chesney
Sheryl Crow
The Beach Boys
Zac Brown Band
Bob Marley
Toots and the Maytals
Little Feat
Paul Simon
UB40
Jerry Jeff Walker
Alan Jackson
Toucans Steel Drum Band
Crowded House
Steve Goodman
John Hiatt
Lyle Lovett
James Taylor
Livingston Taylor
Keith Sykes
Sonny Landreth
The Boat Drunks
Sunny Jim White
Bob Dylan
Tom Petty
Chuck Berry
Garth Brooks
The Neville Brothers
Allen Toussaint
Jan and Dean
The Eagles
Warren Zevon
Steve Miller Band
Pink Martini
Buena Vista Social Club
Sam Cooke
Otis Redding
Los Lonely Boys
The Allman Brothers Band
George Strait
The Swingin' Medallions
The Tams
The Embers
John Mayer
Jesse Winchester
Club Trini
Keith Urban
Jeff Bridges
Third World




See also


List of Sirius Satellite Radio stations
Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville
Margaritaville




References






External links


Official Site

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