What is "radiorock"

Radio Rock is an Italian local radio that airs from Rome, can be listened in most of Lazio, and streams over the internet from its website. It is called in such a way because it mainly transmits rock music 24h per day. It started broadcasting in 1985, and since then it has steadily been growing throughout the years. Its listeners overwhelm well-known radio stations' listeners of the Lazio Region and of the capital, Rome. According to the Audi report on the first quarter of 2010 it reaches 156,000 people daily (in average). In 1998, when three of the founders leaves the radio (Artico, Castaldo and Andreani),the audience was 101,000 average for day.

It is well known in the Italian rock scene for bringing to the Roman musical scene famous international musicians, previously unknown in Italy. This has been possible since Radio Rock sponsors a number of concerts and events in Rome. Thanks to this organization, Radio Rock has brought to the public attention a number of artists, such as Porcupine Tree, Elettrojoyce, the Bevis Frond, Ozric Tentacles and others.

Different disc jockeys have worked for Radio Rock during the time since the foundation in 1985. Each dj bring a peculiar choice in the musical selection but all of them deeply fond of music. Since 2004 Radio Rock Italia, a twin project of Italian rock music, is presented only by women dj: Francesca, Anto [ now @ www.rockam.it ], Marta, Tosca [ now @ www.rockam.it ], Vane [ now @ www.rockam.it ].

'Dj list':

• Emilio Pappagallo
• Fabio Giannotti
• Dj Armandino [now @ www.rockam.it]
• Dj Oreste [now @ www.rockam.it]
• Prince Faster [now @ www.rockam.it]
• Paolo Mazzullo [dead in 2010]
• Marco Terragni
• Margus
• Michele Luches (now @ Radio Città Futura)
• Massimo Di Roma
• Peter Sarram
• Faber Cucchetti (DJ in "Il Bombardone", 2000)
• Jelena Milic
• Gianni Ciaccio
• Marco Scozzafava (aka Marco Silvestri)
• Marco Cavalieri (now at www.rockam.it & www.radiorock.to)
• Gianpaolo Castaldo (founder,now at www.radiorock.to & Radio Città Futura)
• Giampiero Crisanti (now at www.radiorock.to)
• Franz Andreani (founder, now at www.radiorock.to)
• Marco Artico (founder, now at www.radiorock.to)
• Flavia Cardinali (now at www.radiorock.to)
• Baffo Jorg (owner of Metal Massacre Format, died in 2012)

Starting from Radio Rock, some disk jockeys founded Radio Rock The Original (www.radiorock.to) in 1999 and in 2008 won the "European Podcast Award" in Professional Category for Italy. In 2010 Paolo Mazzullo, one of the founders, had a stroke and died. After his death, in 2011 a part of disk jockeys working in the radio decided to leave Radio Rock creating the project Rock AM on Radio Popolare Roma.