Radio formats Radio formats Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations in Canada and the United States. While many current artists are played on both active rock and modern rock stations, an active rock station plays a mix of current artists with popular classic rock songs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Active rock"
Adult Album Alternative (also Triple-A, AAA, or Adult Alternative) is a radio format which has a broader, more diverse playlist than most formats and tends to appeal more to adults than to teenagers. Less played tracks are also common. Musical selection tends to be on the fringe of mainstream popular music and rock music as well as many other music genres such as alternative rock, alternative country, jazz, folk music, world music and blues. The musical selections tend to shy away from hard rock and rap music. Some Triple-A stations bill themselves under the slogan "World Class Rock". ...more on Wikipedia about "Adult album alternative"
Adult contemporary music, frequently abbreviated AC, is a type of radio format that plays mainstream contemporary pop music, excluding hip hop and rap (mainly since it is geared more toward adults than teens, despite the fact that most singers are adults, yet perform music for all ages.). AC is generally divided into 2 groups; "Hot AC", also known as "Adult Top 40" or "Adult Alternative", and "Soft AC", also known as "Lite". Some radio stations play only Hot AC; some play only Soft AC, and some play both. It is not thus usually considered a specific genre of music, as it is merely an assembly of selected tracks of musicians of many different genres. On the other hand it is believed that many musicians will include a certain song on their album or release a certain single designed to "cross over" and get played on AC stations (such as Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful", Avril Lavigne's "Complicated" or Britney Spears' "Everytime", all three of which charted on the Hot and Soft AC charts). ...more on Wikipedia about "Adult contemporary music"
Adult hits (sometimes also called variety hits or classic hits) is a radio format which emerged in the early 2000s. The format is most famously associated with the Jack FM brand, although the format and the Bob FM brand both predate Jack. However, not all stations which play the format use one of these brands — other brands associated with the format include "Joe", "Mike", "Max", "Dave", "Giant", "Simon", "Charlie", "Freedom", "Pirate" and "Big Daddy". ...more on Wikipedia about "Adult hits"
Album-oriented rock, abbreviated AOR and originally called Album-oriented radio, was originally an American FM radio format focusing on album tracks by rock artists. ...more on Wikipedia about "Album-oriented rock"
All-news radio is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcast of news. ...more on Wikipedia about "All-news radio"
The terms alternative rock and alternative music were coined in the early 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired music genres which didn't fit into the mainstream genres of the time. At times it was used as catch-all phrase for rock music from underground artists in the 1980s and rock music in general in the 1990s and 2000s. More specifically, it is made up mostly of genres that appeared in the 1980s and became popular or well known by the 1990s, such as indie rock, grunge, post-punk, gothic rock, and college rock. Most alternative bands were unified by their collective debt to punk, which laid the groundwork for underground and alternative music in the 1970s. Though the genre is considered to be rock, some of its genres were influenced by folk music, reggae, techno and jazz music among other genres. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alternative rock"
Arrow is a radio format that plays 1970s era classic rock that was briefly popular in a number of markets. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arrow (radio format)"
Beautiful Music was a mostly-instrumental music format that was prominent in American radio from the 1960s through the 1980s. "Mood music", " easy listening", " elevator music", and (inaccurately) " Muzak" are other common terms for the format and the style of music that it featured. Beautiful Music can also be regarded as a subset of MOR music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beautiful music"
The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression. The form evolved in the United States in the communities of former African slaves from spirituals, praise songs, field hollers, shouts, and chants. The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative of the blues' West African pedigree. The blues has been a major influence on later American and Western popular music, finding expression in ragtime, jazz, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, hip-hop, and country music, as well as conventional pop songs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blues"
Bob FM is the on-air brand of several FM radio stations in Canada and the United States. Bob FM stations in Canada are all owned by CHUM Limited; those in the United States are owned by a variety of companies. Bob FM stations follow much the same format as the more famous (although newer) Jack FM brand, and are officially classified as variety hits or adult hits by radio research companies. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bob FM"
Boss Radio was the name chosen to promote two new radio programming formats which were both launched in May, 1965 on both KHJ-AM broadcasting from Los Angeles and on Swinging Radio England broadcasting from the motor vessel Laissez Faire anchored three and a half miles off the Frinton-on-Sea, Essex coast of England in international waters. Although the name of the format was the same, its application on both stations was quite different and while the KHJ version actually came on the air that month, the SRE version which was born in May of that year would take several months more to actually hit the airwaves. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boss Radio"
CHR is an abbreviation for contemporary hit radio, a radio format that has become fairly common in the United States and Canada as of the 2000s decade. CHR is the contemporary brand for the tradition of top 40 radio. The format focuses more on playing new music as it does on playing songs that have become hits in recent years or decades. There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on rock, pop, or urban music. A more thorough list would include: ...more on Wikipedia about "CHR"
Christian radio is a radio format that focuses on transmitting programming with a Christian message. Many such broadcasters play popular music of Christian influence, though many programs have talk or news programming covering associated topics that can have a political angle to them. Many Christian radio stations are commercial in nature, and select music in a manner intended to increase profitability of advertisers, thereby increasing the value of the station's advertising, and the station's profits. Other Christian radio stations are supported by listeners, or by Christian organizations or institutions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Christian radio"
Classic Country is a radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country hits from past decades. ...more on Wikipedia about "Classic country"
Classic hits is a popular music radio format, a variation on the classic rock theme that provides most of the playlist of classic rock with an addition of contemporaneous R&B and pop hits as well, striking a balance between the mostly '70s-focused classic rock genre and the more broad-based oldies format. A major market example is WROR in Boston, Massachusetts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Classic hits"
Classic rock was originally conceived as a radio station programming format which evolved from the album oriented rock (AOR) format in the mid- 1980s. In the United States, this rock music format now features a limited playlist of songs ranging from late 1960s through today with more emphasis on the earlier hits by artists associated with the loosely-defined "classic rock era". ...more on Wikipedia about "Classic rock"
Community radio is a type of radio service that caters to the interests of a certain area, broadcasting material that is popular to a local audience but is overlooked by more powerful broadcast groups. The term has somewhat different meanings in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Australia. In the UK, it originated in the many illegal pirate radio stations that came about from the influx of Afro-Caribbean migrants in cities such as London, Birmingham, Bristol, and Manchester in the 1970s. Therefore, "community radio" remains synonymous with "pirate radio" for many people there. In America, community radio is more commonly non-profit and non-commercial, often using licenced class D FM band transmitters, although pirate radio outlets have been operated in many places. Canadian and Australian community stations operate somewhat similarly to their American counterparts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Community radio"
Contemporary Christian Music (or CCM) is a somewhat outdated term originally used in the 1970s to describe a new form of pop/ rock music that was lyrically based in the Christian faith. This music had its roots in " Jesus Music", which sprung from the hippie Jesus Movement of the early 70s. Artists such as 2nd Chapter of Acts, Love Song, Barry McGuire, and Larry Norman were making folky pop music about their faith in Jesus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Contemporary Christian music"
Country music, also called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the Southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, Celtic Music, Blues, Gospel music, and Old-time music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Country music"
Easy listening music is a style of popular music which emerged in the mid- 20th century. Around 1980, it was the most listened to radio format in America, although it soon became scarce as a format not because its listeners were too few but because they were getting too old and therefore less desirable for radio advertisers. This type of music features simple, catchy melodies, cool, laid-back harmonies and occasionally rhythms suitable for dancing. While it is mostly instrumental music, some singers, such as Andy Williams, Jack Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck and Eydie Gorme had vocal styles which were highly compatible with this style. Much of the work of some other pop vocalists, including Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones, and Mel Torme was too frenetic or swing-oriented to be played in an easy listening format. Beautiful music is a subset of easy listening music, since as a radio format it had rigid standards for instrumentation (e.g., few or no saxophones) and restrictions on how many vocal pieces could be played in an hour. ...more on Wikipedia about "Easy listening"
Electronica is a rather vague term that covers a wide range of electronic or electronic-influenced music. The term has been defined by some to mean modern electronic music that is not necessarily designed for the dance-floor, but rather for home listening. The origins of the term are murky, although it appears to have been coined by British music paper Melody Maker in the mid- 1990s, originally to describe the electronic rock band Republica. The term subsequently gained a life of its own, and became popular in the United States as a means of referring to the then-novel mainstream success of post-Rave global electronic dance music. Prior to the adoption of "electronica" as a blanket term for more experimental dance music, terms such as electronic listening music, braindance and intelligent dance music (IDM) were common. ...more on Wikipedia about "Electronica"
Énergie is a network of French-language Top 40 outlets broadcasting throughout the province of Quebec, in Eastern Canada. They offer a personality-driven mix of francophone and anglophone pop hits and cutting-edge programs, catering to a young adult audience. Although the flagship station is CKMF-FM Montreal, the 10 stations in the network usually have their own talent for each of their own makets. They are owned by Astral Media. ...more on Wikipedia about "Énergie"
"Free FM" is the moniker and on-air brand of several FM talk radio stations in the United States owned by CBS Radio, created because of Howard Stern's departure to Sirius Satellite Radio in January 2006. Free FM was given its name to re-establish that you pay for satellite radio. In his last days on FM radio, Stern attacked the "Free FM" moniker, arguing that while it may cost nothing to listen, "Free FM" is far from free, in regards to FCC censorship. ...more on Wikipedia about "Free FM"
Freeform, or freeform radio, is a radio station programming format in which the disc jockey is given total control over what music to play, regardless of music genre or commercial interests. Freeform radio stands in contrast to with most commercial radio stations, in which DJs have little or no influence over programming structure or playlists. In the United States, freeform DJs are still bound by Federal Communications Commission regulations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Freeform (radio format)"
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