{"id":907379,"date":"2026-09-24T03:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/907379\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T03:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:50:08","slug":"kiss-west-coast-vancouver-radio-changes-formats-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/907379\/","title":{"rendered":"KiSS West Coast: Vancouver radio changes formats again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A third version of KiSS is now on the air.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, 104.9 FM has been rebranded.<\/p>\n<p>The Rogers-owned radio station has switched formats again, although this time it&#8217;s a small tweak rather than a full format flip.<\/p>\n<p>Up until last week, the station was Kiss Throwback.\u00a0It&#8217;s now KiSS West Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The change appears to be slight, with the same on-air staff and the KiSS brand remaining. The biggest advertised difference is the addition of newer music.<\/p>\n<p>While KiSS Throwback played hits from decades past, mostly the &#8217;90s and\u00a02000s, KiSS West Coast adds in current hits as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DdRg9YZFCZn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Biggest Hits, The Best Throwbacks<\/a>,&#8221; reads the new tagline for the station.<\/p>\n<p>KiSS West Coast is also being broadcast at 92.5 FM in Abbotsford and 107.5 FM in Chilliwack.<\/p>\n<p>The new branding has been rolled out just after the announcement the Vancouver Canucks games would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vancouverisawesome.com\/local-news\/canucks-broadcasts-fm-radio-2026-12766496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">broadcast by the KiSS station<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vancouverisawesome.com\/local-news\/vancouver-radio-station-sonic-kiss-changes-formats-june-2025-10834478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KiSS Throwbacks<\/a> only lasted about a year, after replacing SONiC in the summer of 2025. SONiC itself had replaced KiSS\u00a0104.9 FM in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The KiSS brand is used at stations across Canada including Toronto, Edmonton\u00a0and Winnipeg. Shows like The Roz and Mocha Show and The Jeff Holland Show are aired across the network.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A third version of KiSS is now on the air. Once again, 104.9 FM has been rebranded. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-907379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}