However, in Episodes from Liberty City disc version, Vladivostok FM is completely commercial free. In GTA IV, the station plays Russian versions of Excelsior Extreme 9, The Horn Deodorant and Whiz Wireless commercials. In 2007, WNYZ-LP transitioned from a Russian Top 40 program to a dance music station named Pulse 87, similar to how Vladivostok changed from playing purely Russian music to house music. Vladivostok FM is based on WNYZ-LP in New York City. When Grand Theft Auto IV is updated by the downloadable version of The Ballad of Gay Tony, the station alternates between a program of World Beat/Eastern European pop music and one of western European dance music. In The Balled of Gay Tony, the new playlist can be heard inside Bahama Mamas nightclub, but at the beginning of the radio track, the first advert announces that the radio is 'direct from Hove Beach'.
The station is hosted by Ruslana Lyzhychko ( DJ Paul in TBoGT) and is named after the Russian city of Vladivostok.
