Do you love hip-hop? Do you love Christian contemporary music? Do you live in Austin? Great news: There’s a radio station for you.
Earlier this week, Christian hip-hop radio brand BOOST Radio launched in Austin. BOOST will play on Austin’s already established 92.1 FM station, owned by national Christian radio network K-Love. Austin is the ninth market to get BOOST, based out of St. Louis and owned by Gateway Creative Broadcasting. The company already blasts biblical beats through K-Love’s transmitters in Chicago; Fayetteville, North Carolina; Lansing, Michigan; Memphis; Minneapolis; Portland, Oregon; Pittsburgh and Phoenix, Arizona.
BOOST’s new move into Austin comes as part of a rapid expansion on the part of Gateway Creative. Last month, Gateway took over a beloved community radio station in St. Louis, KDHX, and turned it into a rhythmic adult contemporary station. Already, Gateway owns 99.1 Joy FM, a contemporary Christian station, and Boost 95.5, a Christian urban contemporary station, in St. Louis. KDHX had already stopped broadcasting after its former owners silenced the station to community outcry, per reporting from St. Louis Public Radio. And last fall, Gateway brought its BOOST brand to Memphis…