When 106.9 Bob FM switched to Power 106.9, Omaha got its first “big city” radio station.

It’s more than just a hip-hop station – it is very intelligently programmed, and when you listen to the station, you feel like “This was programmed by someone who knows and loves the music and is making decisions accordingly,” rather than “This was programmed by someone who knows what the trade publications are saying this format should be like, so the decisions are made to prevent being the latest casualty in the radio business.”

I don’t really even like hip-hop, but listening to this station reminds me of listening to KRNU or watching the early days of M2. There just seems to be a layer of depth to what goes on the station to where, even if you don’t necessarily like what’s on the surface, there’s a bigger picture happening with each song selection and that comes through in the listening experience.

One of the greatest things on the station is their power lunch – an hour of live-mixed old-school requests. Today’s set included seamless segues from “Informer” by Snow to “Method Man” by Wu-Tang Clan to “Baby I Got Your Money” by Ol Dirty Bastard to a Slick Rick song (can’t remember the name) to “This is How We Do It” by Montell Jordan.

Listen to this station. It blows away all the timid, tentative conservative programming on every other commercial station in the state.

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