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Forerunners of the adult hits format appeared on radio during the 1970s. At the time, enough of a backlog of popular music from the rock and roll era had developed to support a format based on them; oldies stations, however, were still very rare, and instead, stations that did not want to bind themselves to the current top 40 playlist would mix in current hits with the hits of the past two ...
WRTH-LP is an oldies/beach music radio station licensed to Greenville, South Carolina, and serving the entire Greenville County region. It is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to broadcast on 101.5 MHz with an FCC authorized ERP (effective radiated power) of 100 watts. The station goes by the name "Oldies Radio Kool-FM"
Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV [ 1 ] in the early 1980s and the nostalgia behind it [ 2 ] is a major driver to the format.
Take a trip down memory lane as you try to identify these iconic '60s songs based on snippets of their lyrics. From rock legends like Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles to folk icons like Bob Dylan ...
By 2000, Jammin' Oldies stations had different approaches, with some playing only 60s and 70s music, and others focusing more on the 80s, with still others such as WMOJ playing early rap. KMBX played no 60s music, while WJJJ (which was co-owned with oldies WWSW ) added songs from the 80s and 90s and de-emphasized Motown .
Adult standards (also sometimes known as the nostalgia or Big Band format [1]) is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM or class A FM stations.. Adult standards started in the 1950s and is aimed at "mature" adults, meaning mainly those people over 50 years of age, [2] but it is mostly targeted for senior citizens.
So "counter-programming" the FM was simple. A broadcaster with a youth-targeted Top 40 AM station would likely target an older demographic on the sister FM, or vice versa if the AM was an older-targeted MOR station. Nearly every large market had a "progressive rock" album station, a forerunner to AOR, and a "beautiful" music station. Both ...
A Sounds of the 60s CD was released in November 2011. On 28 March 2015, Matthew presented a 25th anniversary show. In it, he selected ten of his favourite songs of the 1960s and there were tributes from Ray Davies, Helen Shapiro, Paul Jones, Marty Wilde and Petula Clark. On 27 January 2017, the BBC announced that Matthew would be retiring from ...