All Rock, a new local broadcasting station on the digital radio network, has been licensed by the Broadcasting Authority today.
All Rock, operated by Digi B Network, will be broadcasting rock music programmes – a genre of popular music that entered mainstream music in the 1960s with rock and roll, rhythm and blues.
The sound of rock often revolves around the electric guitar, bass guitar, drams and keyboard instruments such as synthesizers. In the early 1970s rock music developed different subgenres when it was blended with folk music to create folk rock; with blues creating blues-rock; and with jazz creating jazz-rock fusion music.
Rock subgenres that emerged in the following decennials include glam rock, heavy metal, hard rock, progressive rock, punk rock, and Britpop.
All Rock is the fourth station to be licensed by the Broadcasting Authority which is transmitted exclusively on the digital radio platform including Radio Cuore d’Italia, Bay Italia and Bay Easy.
Digital Radio Broadcasting was introduced in Malta through an amendment in the Broadcasting Act which allowed the Broadcasting Authority to license a service provider, Digi B Network Limited, for such services.