Pulse 87
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Audio broadcast television network (2008-2009) Internet radio station (2010-present) Over the air broadcasts (2014-2016) |
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| Country |  United States |
| Owner | Mega Media (2008 - 09) Joel Salkowitz (2010 - present) |
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Launch date
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2008 |
| Dissolved | October 30, 2009 (Television only) January 31, 2016 (Internet, Live365) Relaunch: March 2016 (Internet, TuneGenie) |
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Official website
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www.pulse87ny.com |
Pulse 87 is an American television franchise that operated as a radio branding. The brand was formerly owned and operated by Mega Media. As of February 2010, the format was resurrected as an online internet station under new management following the bankruptcy and liquidation of its former owner. The brand returned to radio as the new branding for Dance outlet KYLI/Las Vegas, Nevada on June 24, 2014 (until October 26, 2016, when it sold and flipped to Regional Mexican), and later expanded to Washington, D.C. with FM translator W249BE adopting the format in October 2014.
The network originally was to consist entirely of low-power television stations that operated on the former analog . The audio portion of that TV channel operates at 87.75 MHz, at the very low end of the FM radio spectrum in the United States, and can be picked up on FM radios provided the station broadcasts in analog television. Pulse 87 stations operated a dance radio format.
Mega Media did not own any stations, instead opting to lease time from the stations.
There are currently no "Pulse 87" affiliates. The network only ever succeeded in getting its programming on one station, WNYZ-LP in New York City, which ran the format from February 2008 through October 2009. Mega Media had announced plans to bring the "Pulse 87" brand to three other low-power stations, KSFV-CA in the San Fernando Valley (serving Los Angeles, California), WDCN-LP in Washington, D.C. and WLFM-LP in Chicago, Illinois, all of which would have started carrying Pulse 87 programming on June 1, but those plans were scrubbed after leasing deals with the owners of those stations fell through.
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