How we checked Ретро FM Рига (Retro FM)
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 5 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
| What we say | Read from | When |
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Description
RETRO FM Latvija is a Russian-language classic-hits station that describes itself with the line "Лучшие хиты 70-х, 80-х и 90-х". Its own history page states that "2 мая 2012 года, в Риге зазвучало RETRO FM", and it runs a presenter-led weekday daytime schedule alongside a Sunday grid of music and news blocks. It carries its own newsroom output and publishes a journalists' ethics code written in Latvian and framed on Latvian law. Alongside the main service it offers two further branded streams, Retro FM Disco and Retro FM 90's.
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RETRO FM Latvija | 2026 |
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Artists
Its live playlist block showed TINA TURNER, "THE BEST" on the main stream and E-Type, "Here I Go Again" on Retro FM Disco while I was reading the site
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RETRO FM Latvija | 2026 |
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Contact route
A direct on-air telephone line, the same number on WhatsApp, an advertising email address, a written feedback form headed «У вас есть вопросы к нам?», and a Riga postal address
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RETRO FM Latvija | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://retrofm.lv/contacts
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RETRO FM Latvija | 2026 |
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Era
1970s, 1980s and 1990s, which is the whole point of the format; the Disco feed narrows to dance records of those decades and the third feed to the 1990s alone
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RETRO FM Latvija | 2026 |
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Music
Music: classic hits, with a dance-oriented Disco stream and a 1990s-only stream as separate feeds, plus short news and events blocks
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RETRO FM Latvija | 2026 |
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Language
Russian on air; presenters, programme names and all editorial copy are Russian, while the ethics code and the site's own Ētikas kodekss label are in Latvian
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RETRO FM Latvija | 2026 |
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Kind
Live presenter-led weekday daytime output with automated music playout overnight and at weekends; on its own material this is a locally run Latvian station carrying the Retro FM brand, and nowhere on its own site does it describe itself as a relay of a Russian network
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RETRO FM Latvija | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
It publishes a fifteen-point journalists' ethics code that binds its staff to Latvian law and bars a journalist standing for the Saeima or a local council from covering politics from the moment their candidacy is confirmed, which is a local editorial commitment a pure rebroadcaster would have no need of
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RETRO FM Latvija | 2026 |
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Where
Riga, Latvia; its own site publishes a Riga postal address and a Latvian direct-line number but states no FM frequency anywhere
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RETRO FM Latvija | 2026 |
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On air
Елена Рассохина and Александр Шунин on «Утренний экспресс», Эдмунд Кашевский and Григорий Берг on «Вечерний променад», Катя Ерофеева on «Привет в обед», and Алексей Павленко on «Новости»
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RETRO FM Latvija | 2026 |
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Programmes
«Утренний экспресс» Пн-Пт 06:00-10:00, «Позитив» Пн-Пт 10:00-16:00, «Привет в обед» Пн-Пт 14:00-15:00, «Вечерний променад» Пн-Пт 16:00-19:00, «Диско Ретро ФМ» Пт-Сб 21:00-24:00, plus «Феличита», «Вечер со звездой» and «Гороскоп» listed without times
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RETRO FM Latvija | 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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| homepage url | http://retrofm.lv/ → https://retrofm.lv/ | Stored as http. The site serves TLS directly: a request to https://retrofm.lv/ returns 200 on its own, and http://retrofm.lv/ redirects to the https address. Confirmed by loading https://retrofm.lv/ and https://retrofm.lv/radio/retro-fm-etikas-kodekss, both of which rendered the station's own pages. Same host, same site, so this is a scheme upgrade only. |
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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| The direct-line and WhatsApp number, the advertising email and the Riga street address | described by type only
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| A static "ON AIR" presenter card naming Эдмунд Кашевский on «Вечерний променад» at "Пн-Пт: 16:00 - 19:00" | the site's own grid was showing ВОСКРЕСЕНЬЕ at the time, so the card is a fixed block and not what was actually on air
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| The «Люди пишут» listener messages | they are dated 2023, are stale, and one is a personal request naming individuals
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| The weekly horoscope text carried on the homepage and a /programs/horoscope page | theme filler, not station fact
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| An inference that the station belongs to the EHR group | its «Вечер со звездой» podcast link points to www.ehr.fm, but neither retrofm.lv nor ehr.fm states any ownership relationship, so I did not name an operator its own site does not name
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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: Ретро FM Рига (Retro FM) — listed via Radio Browser · http://retrofm.lv/