KISSTORY Radio

KISSTORY is a separate UK music service focused on old-skool tracks and dance anthems. That is how the broadcaster presents its identity, clearly separating the programme from KISS. The main KISS programme is oriented more towards contemporary music and on-air chat; KISSTORY is a choice for listeners seeking records already associated with earlier dance floors and radio memories. The station is organised by that relationship to the music, not by a claim that every track was released during one precise decade.

Old-skool can include more than one kind of record. Dance, R&B and related club sounds can meet in a sequence of recognisable tracks; their shared role as familiar anthems is more useful here than pretending that they belong to a single narrowly defined subgenre. This also distinguishes KISSTORY from a station that plays all mainstream hits from the eighties or nineties regardless of their link to club culture. The music is the main attraction. A listener can decide whether the station's choice of era, energy and familiar rhythms is closer to what they want than the current-facing sound of KISS.

The old-skool idea gives this station a broad musical memory rather than a hard cut-off at one year. A track can matter because it recalls a club floor, a particular period of popular dance music or a sound that crossed into R&B. KISSTORY draws those connections within a music-led national programme. KISS remains the separate, more current-facing service, with a different balance of music and on-air conversation. Someone who wants the older anthems can go directly to KISSTORY without assuming it is a repeat of the main station's schedule or a channel that plays every hit from one decade.