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Pages in category "Oldies radio stations in the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 359 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music, broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock, from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music.
WMID (1340 kHz) is a radio station licensed to Atlantic City, New Jersey, which plays "the classic oldies".Its parent company is The Jersey Giant WMID, LLC. Its studios are located in Ocean City, and its transmitter is located on Murray Avenue in Atlantic City.
It was felt that there was a need for a radio station that played only pre-1964 Oldies. So on January 5, 2004, WMTR switched to a "Classic Oldies" format, featuring songs from 1954 to 1963. The station also played a handful of oldies from the late 1960s but only by pre-1964 artists.
Chancellor Media, later to be called AMFM, developed the format with the intention of using it on other stations. [2] Just as radio in the 80s had the "urban versus churban" competition, R & B oldies radio was dividing into two camps—the straight urban oldies stations targeting African Americans, and the "Jammin' Oldies" stations with a wider ...
WJQZ (103.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits and oldies format. Licensed to Wellsville, New York, United States, the station serves the Olean area. The station is currently owned by DBM Communications, Inc. and features a locally programmed playlist spanning from the 1960s through the 1980s.
The station reclaimed its former WKIX callsign soon afterward. [16] WKIX had a very broad-based playlist incorporating some adult standards and classic country material into an oldies playlist spanning the early 1950s to early 1980s.
The station was established in 1953 as WCIN. During the 1960s, WCIN became a highly regarded soul music station featuring a variety of African-American personalities.. In 1995, then-owner J4 Broadcasting Network bought radio stations in Norfolk, Virginia; New Bern, North Carolina; and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; and began distributing its "Classic Oldies" format of 50s-70s R&B, jazz and ...