How we checked Calypso Radio
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 1 thing about this entry. We also found 2 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
Despite the name, Calypso Radio has nothing to do with Caribbean calypso. It is a Maltese station on 101.8 FM, run by Y Ltd from Centrepoint in Luqa, and it broadcasts in Maltese while playing international golden oldies from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, with ABBA, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, U2, Duran Duran, Sting and KISS in regular rotation. Around the music sit strongly local features, including Kwarta Qari, which serialises Maltese novels on air, and Malta's Top 10, a public vote on the best Maltese language songs of the past two years. It is among the most listened to stations on the islands and runs charity marathons, museum days and listener giveaways off the back of that audience.
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Calypso Radio 101.8 official site | 2026 |
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Artists
ABBA, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, U2, Duran Duran, Sting, KISS
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Calypso Radio 101.8 official site | 2026 |
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Contact route
its own Contact Us page carries a Send us a message form, a separately labelled studio telephone number, a separately labelled SMS request number, a main switchboard, a newsroom mailbox, office hours and the registered company address in Luqa; the site nav also carries a Submit Your Music route; Facebook, Instagram and YouTube accounts are linked from its own footer
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Calypso Radio 101.8, Malta | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://www.calypsomalta.com/contact-us
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Calypso Radio 101.8, Malta | 2026 |
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Era
1960s, 1970s and 1980s
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Calypso Radio 101.8 official site | 2026 |
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Music
Golden oldies and classic hits, plus Maltese language features and spoken-word book readings
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Calypso Radio 101.8 official site | 2026 |
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Language
Maltese, with English language music and one or two English presented shows
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Calypso Radio 101.8 official site | 2026 |
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Kind
Studio recordings with live presented shows and spoken-word readings
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Calypso Radio 101.8 official site | 2026 |
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Where
Luqa, Malta, 101.8 FM
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Calypso Radio 101.8 official site | 2026 |
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Programmes
Kwarta Qari, which serialises Maltese novels on air; Malta's Top 10, a public vote on the best Maltese language songs of the past two years
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Calypso Radio 101.8 official site | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
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mt
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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Maltese station in Luqa, not Caribbean. Its own site is Maltese throughout: features page entirely in Maltese, Kwarta Qari serialises Maltese novels, Malta's Top 10 chart copy runs Maltese first then English. Plays English-language golden oldies but presents in Maltese |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| a LinkedIn href that points at a company admin dashboard path | that link only resolves for a page administrator, so it is not a public account link
source |
| a Gmail address in the page's stylesheet | it is the Cabin typeface author's copyright line baked into the CSS, not a station route
source |
If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: Calypso Radio — listed via Radio Browser · https://www.calypsomalta.com/