American LGBTQ+ lifestyle top 40 radio network
Previous Pride Radio logo used until 2013.
Pride Radio (stylized as PRIDE Radio) is an LGBTQ+ lifestyle and top 40 radio network launched by Clear Channel Communications Format Lab under the direction of Michael Albl, who conceived the format, on terrestrial HD2 & HD3 stations and online via CCRD (Clear Channel Radio Digital) in 2006. The radio division became known as iHeartMedia on September 16, 2014. It is one of several music channels that are available through iHeartMedia's iHeartRadio app.
Programming
Don Parker is PRIDE Radio's General Manager and also oversees programming of the iHeartMedia radio stations in San Francisco, CA. Jerry Houston is PRIDE Radio's Program Director overseeing day-to-day operation of the station. He also serves as the station's afternoon personality (3pm-7pm Eastern Time) presenting under his last name "Houston." Houston has been part of PRIDE Radio's daily operation since 2011 with Parker joining in 2013. Prior to joining PRIDE Radio, Houston was the Digital Program Director overseeing the online assets iHeartMedia radio stations in the Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC markets. Houston also serves as Entertainment Chair for Capital Pride Alliance in Washington, DC, producing the organization's annual concert on Pennsylvania Ave.
Stations
These FM stations currently carry Pride Radio on their HD2 (or HD3) digital subchannels:[1]
- WKTU HD2 103.5 FM: New York City
- KBIG HD2 104.3 FM: Los Angeles
- WKSC-FM HD2 103.5 FM: Chicago
- KIOI HD2 101.3 FM: San Francisco
- KHKS HD2 106.1 FM: Dallas (Previously an affiliate from 2006 to 2008; returned in March 2011.)
- KQBT HD2 93.7 FM: Houston
- WIHT HD2 99.5 FM: Washington, D.C.
- WBZY HD3 105.7 FM: Atlanta
- WIOQ HD3 102.1 FM: Philadelphia (Previous affiliate that returned in March 2017.)
- WBWL HD2 101.7 FM: Boston
- WHYI-FM HD3 100.7 FM: Miami
- KBKS-FM HD2 106.1 FM: Seattle
- KMXP HD2 96.9 FM: Phoenix, Arizona
- KDWB HD2 101.3 FM: Minneapolis
- KHTS-FM HD2 93.3 FM: San Diego
- WFLZ-FM HD2 93.3 FM Tampa, Florida (serves as PRIDE Radio’s monitored reporter on Billboard’s Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart)
- KBCO HD3 97.3 FM: Denver
- WZFT HD2 104.3 FM: Baltimore
- KXJM HD2 107.5 FM: Portland, Oregon
- WLKO HD2 102.9 FM: Charlotte, North Carolina
- KSLZ HD2 107.7 FM: St. Louis
- WKST-FM HD2 96.1 FM: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- WXXL HD2 106.7 FM: Orlando, Florida (this station sometimes preempts national PRIDE Radio programming for local personalities)
- WKFS HD2 107.1: Cincinnati
- KPEZ HD2 102.3 FM: Austin, Texas (serves as PRIDE Radio's monitored reporter on Mediabase's Dance Airplay Chart)
- WHLK HD2 106.5 FM: Cleveland, Ohio
- WXZX HD2 105.7 FM: Columbus, Ohio
- WKSS HD2 95.7 FM: Hartford, Connecticut
- WTUE HD3 104.7 FM: Dayton, Ohio
- WPRM-FM HD4 99.1 FM: San Juan, Puerto Rico
