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id="toc-Key_contributors-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Todd_Storz" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Todd_Storz"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>Todd Storz</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Todd_Storz-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Gordon_McLendon" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gordon_McLendon"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Gordon McLendon</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gordon_McLendon-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Rick_Sklar" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rick_Sklar"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Rick Sklar</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Rick_Sklar-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bill_Drake" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bill_Drake"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>Bill Drake</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bill_Drake-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Mike_Joseph_and_hot_hits" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Mike_Joseph_and_hot_hits"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>Mike Joseph and hot hits</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mike_Joseph_and_hot_hits-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Don_Pierson" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Don_Pierson"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.6</span> <span>Don Pierson</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Don_Pierson-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Countdowns,_shows_and_personalities" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Countdowns,_shows_and_personalities"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Countdowns, shows and personalities</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Countdowns,_shows_and_personalities-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Formats_and_radio_stations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Formats_and_radio_stations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Formats and radio stations</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Formats_and_radio_stations-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Formats and radio stations subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Formats_and_radio_stations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-America" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#America"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>America</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-America-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Brazil" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Brazil"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Brazil</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Brazil-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Trinidad_and_Tobago" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Trinidad_and_Tobago"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Trinidad and Tobago</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Trinidad_and_Tobago-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-United_States" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#United_States"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>United States</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-United_States-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-California" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#California"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4.1</span> <span>California</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-California-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-New_York" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#New_York"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4.2</span> <span>New York</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-New_York-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Guyana" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Guyana"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5</span> <span>Guyana</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Guyana-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-United_Kingdom" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#United_Kingdom"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.6</span> <span>United Kingdom</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-United_Kingdom-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ukraine" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ukraine"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.7</span> <span>Ukraine</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ukraine-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-France" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#France"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.8</span> <span>France</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-France-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Italy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Italy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.9</span> <span>Italy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Italy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Netherlands" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Netherlands"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.10</span> <span>Netherlands</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Netherlands-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Germany" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Germany"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.11</span> <span>Germany</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Germany-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Switzerland" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Switzerland"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.12</span> <span>Switzerland</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Switzerland-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sweden" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sweden"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.13</span> <span>Sweden</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sweden-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Indonesia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Indonesia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.14</span> <span>Indonesia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Indonesia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Lebanon" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Lebanon"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.15</span> <span>Lebanon</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Lebanon-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> 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href="#Sri_Lanka"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.19</span> <span>Sri Lanka</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sri_Lanka-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Philippines" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Philippines"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.20</span> <span>Philippines</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Philippines-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Mainland_China" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Mainland_China"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.21</span> <span>Mainland China</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mainland_China-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Hong_Kong" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hong_Kong"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.22</span> <span>Hong Kong</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hong_Kong-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Taiwan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Taiwan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.23</span> <span>Taiwan</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Taiwan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Japan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Japan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.24</span> <span>Japan</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Japan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Thailand" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Thailand"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.25</span> <span>Thailand</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Thailand-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Vietnam" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Vietnam"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.26</span> <span>Vietnam</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Vietnam-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-International" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#International"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.27</span> <span>International</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-International-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div 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href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_hit_radio" title="Contemporary hit radio – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Contemporary hit radio" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%BE_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88" title="پاپ رادیو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="پاپ رادیو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BB%A8%ED%85%9C%ED%8F%AC%EB%9F%AC%EB%A6%AC_%ED%9E%88%ED%8A%B8_%EB%9D%BC%EB%94%94%EC%98%A4" title="컨템포러리 히트 라디오 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="컨템포러리 히트 라디오" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radijska_postaja_suvremenih_hitova" title="Radijska postaja suvremenih hitova – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Radijska postaja suvremenih hitova" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_hit_kontemporer" title="Radio hit kontemporer – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Radio hit kontemporer" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_hit_radio" title="Contemporary hit radio – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Contemporary hit radio" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%99%D7%95_%D7%9C%D7%94%D7%99%D7%98%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%A2%D7%9B%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D" title="רדיו להיטים עכשוויים – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="רדיו להיטים עכשוויים" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHR" title="CHR – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="CHR" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHR" title="CHR – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="CHR" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_hit_radio" title="Contemporary hit radio – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Contemporary hit radio" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_hit_radio" title="Contemporary hit radio – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Contemporary hit radio" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" 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id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Radio format</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Pop radio" redirects here. For the radio station, see <a href="/wiki/Taipei_Pop_Radio" title="Taipei Pop Radio">Taipei Pop Radio</a>.</div> <p><b>Contemporary hit radio</b> (also known as <b>CHR</b>, <b>contemporary hits</b>, <b>hit list</b>, <b>current hits</b>, <b>hit music</b>, <b>top 40</b>, or <b>pop radio</b>) is a <a href="/wiki/Radio_format" title="Radio format">radio format</a> that is common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the <a href="/wiki/Top_40" title="Top 40">Top 40</a> <a href="/wiki/Record_chart" title="Record chart">music charts</a>. There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on <a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">rock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Urban_contemporary" class="mw-redirect" title="Urban contemporary">urban music</a>. Used alone, <i>CHR</i> most often refers to the CHR-pop format. The term <i>contemporary hit radio</i> was coined in the early 1980s by <i><a href="/wiki/Radio_%26_Records" title="Radio & Records">Radio & Records</a></i> magazine to designate <a href="/wiki/Top_40" title="Top 40">Top 40</a> stations which continued to play hits from all musical genres as pop music splintered into <a href="/wiki/Adult_contemporary_music" title="Adult contemporary music">Adult contemporary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Urban_contemporary" class="mw-redirect" title="Urban contemporary">Urban contemporary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Contemporary_Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Contemporary Christian">Contemporary Christian</a> and other formats. </p><p>The term "top 40" is also used to refer to the actual list of hit songs, and, by extension, to refer to <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop music</a> in general. The term has also been modified to describe <b>top 50</b>; <b>top 30</b>; <b>top 20</b>; <b>top 10</b>; <b>hot 100</b> (each with its number of songs) and <b>hot hits</b> radio formats, but carrying more or less the same meaning and having the same creative point of origin with <a href="/wiki/Todd_Storz" title="Todd Storz">Todd Storz</a> as further refined by <a href="/wiki/Gordon_McLendon" title="Gordon McLendon">Gordon McLendon</a> as well as <a href="/wiki/Bill_Drake" title="Bill Drake">Bill Drake</a>. The format became especially popular in the mid-sixties as radio stations constrained <a href="/wiki/Disc_jockey" title="Disc jockey">disc jockeys</a> to numbered play lists in the wake of the <a href="/wiki/Payola" title="Payola">payola</a> scandal. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Variations">Variations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Variations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mainstream_CHR">Mainstream CHR</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Mainstream CHR"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100">Billboard Hot 100</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mainstream_Top_40" class="mw-redirect" title="Mainstream Top 40">Mainstream Top 40</a></div> <p>Also known as CHR/pop or teen CHR. Plays <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Electronic_dance_music" title="Electronic dance music">dance</a>, and sometimes <a href="/wiki/Urban_contemporary" class="mw-redirect" title="Urban contemporary">urban</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alternative_rock" title="Alternative rock">alternative</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">rock</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Country_music" title="Country music">country</a> crossover as well. Often referred as "<a href="/wiki/Top_40" title="Top 40">Top 40</a>"; in terms of incorporating a variety of genres of music, CHR/pop is the successor to the original concept of top 40 radio which originated in the 1950s. Examples of CHR/pop stations in the United States, Canada, and Brazil include <a href="/wiki/WHTZ" title="WHTZ">WHTZ</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a> (NY), <a href="/wiki/KIIS-FM" title="KIIS-FM">KIIS-FM</a> in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> (CA), <a href="/wiki/KYLD" title="KYLD">KYLD</a> and <a href="/wiki/KMVQ-FM" title="KMVQ-FM">KMVQ-FM</a> in <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> (CA), <a href="/wiki/KHKS" title="KHKS">KHKS</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dallas" title="Dallas">Dallas</a> (TX), <a href="/wiki/KRBE" title="KRBE">KRBE</a> in <a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston</a> (TX), <a href="/wiki/CFBT-FM" title="CFBT-FM">CFBT-FM</a> in <a href="/wiki/Vancouver" title="Vancouver">Vancouver</a> (BC), <a href="/wiki/CKFM-FM" title="CKFM-FM">CKFM-FM</a> and <a href="/wiki/CKIS-FM" title="CKIS-FM">CKIS-FM</a> in <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a> (ON), <a href="/wiki/KSMG" title="KSMG">KSMG</a> in <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio" title="San Antonio">San Antonio</a> (TX), <a href="/wiki/WIOQ" title="WIOQ">WIOQ</a> in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> (PA), <a href="/wiki/WPRO-FM" title="WPRO-FM">WPRO-FM</a> in <a href="/wiki/Providence,_Rhode_Island" title="Providence, Rhode Island">Providence</a> (RI), <a href="/wiki/WXKS-FM" title="WXKS-FM">WXKS-FM</a> in <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> (MA), <a href="/wiki/WIFC" title="WIFC">WIFC</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wausau,_Wisconsin" title="Wausau, Wisconsin">Wausau</a> (WI), <a href="/wiki/WWPW" title="WWPW">WWPW</a> and <a href="/wiki/WWWQ" title="WWWQ">WWWQ</a> in <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a> (GA), <a href="/wiki/WKSC-FM" title="WKSC-FM">WKSC-FM</a> in <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a> (IL), <a href="/wiki/WFLZ" class="mw-redirect" title="WFLZ">WFLZ</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tampa,_Florida" title="Tampa, Florida">Tampa</a>/<a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg,_Florida" title="St. Petersburg, Florida">St. Petersburg</a> (FL), <a href="/wiki/WHYI-FM" title="WHYI-FM">WHYI-FM</a> in <a href="/wiki/Miami" title="Miami">Miami</a> (FL), <a href="/wiki/KLUC" class="mw-redirect" title="KLUC">KLUC</a> in <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas" title="Las Vegas">Las Vegas</a> (NV), <a href="/wiki/WNCI" title="WNCI">WNCI</a> in <a href="/wiki/Columbus,_Ohio" title="Columbus, Ohio">Columbus, Ohio</a> (OH), <a href="/wiki/WZPL" title="WZPL">WZPL</a> (IN) in <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis" title="Indianapolis">Indianapolis</a>, <a href="/wiki/KDWB" class="mw-redirect" title="KDWB">KDWB</a> in <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis" title="Minneapolis">Minneapolis</a>/<a href="/wiki/St._Paul,_Minnesota" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Paul, Minnesota">St. Paul</a> (MN), and <a href="/wiki/Jovem_Pan_FM" title="Jovem Pan FM">Jovem Pan FM</a> (with language) in <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>. The stations generally gain large popularity with this format. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adult_CHR">Adult CHR</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Adult CHR"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Adult_Top_40" class="mw-redirect" title="Adult Top 40">Adult Top 40</a></div> <p>These stations typically are hybrids of the contemporary hit radio (CHR/pop) and <a href="/wiki/Adult_contemporary_music#Hot_adult_contemporary" title="Adult contemporary music">Hot AC</a> formats. This format contains a strong focus on current charts, contemporary and recurrent hits as well as placing a minority of older, classic hits from the 2000s and early to mid 2010s onto the playlist. Adult CHR stations play pop-friendly rhythmic, dance and hip hop titles alongside standard mainstream pop and pop rock fare, and often shying away from the most rhythmic CHR titles until they are established hits on the format. </p><p>Examples in the U.S. include <a href="/wiki/WIXX" title="WIXX">WIXX</a> in Green Bay, <a href="/wiki/WKRQ" title="WKRQ">WKRQ</a> in Cincinnati and <a href="/wiki/KZZO" title="KZZO">KZZO</a> in Sacramento. United Kingdom (UK) media regulator <a href="/wiki/Ofcom" title="Ofcom">Ofcom</a> states: "where a format requires a contemporary and <a href="/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Singles Chart">chart music</a> service, the main diet must be of modern music, reflecting the charts of today and recent months. Older, classic tracks would not be out of place, but only as spice to the main offering."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The adult CHR format is sometimes utilized by stations which are heritage Top 40/CHR outlets in their respective markets which have been in the format since the 1970s or 1980s or FM successors to former AM top 40s, with examples in the UK including the <a href="/wiki/Hits_Radio_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="Hits Radio Network">Hits Radio Network</a> compiled of heritage radio stations including <a href="/wiki/Clyde_1" title="Clyde 1">Clyde 1</a> in <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a> and <a href="/wiki/Radio_City_(Liverpool)" class="mw-redirect" title="Radio City (Liverpool)">Radio City</a> in <a href="/wiki/Liverpool" title="Liverpool">Liverpool</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rhythmic_CHR">Rhythmic CHR</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Rhythmic CHR"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Rhythmic_contemporary" title="Rhythmic contemporary">Rhythmic contemporary</a></div> <p>Also known as CHR/rhythmic, rhythmic crossover, or CHR/urban. These stations focus on <a href="/wiki/Hip_hop_music" title="Hip hop music">hip-hop</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dance-pop" title="Dance-pop">dance-pop</a>. There are differences between CHR/rhythmic and the <a href="/wiki/Urban_contemporary" class="mw-redirect" title="Urban contemporary">urban contemporary</a> format; urban stations will often play <a href="/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues">R&B</a> and <a href="/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music">soul</a> songs that CHR/rhythmic stations will not, and CHR/rhythmic stations, despite playlists heavy with urban product, sometimes have white disc jockeys and will include <a href="/wiki/Electronic_dance_music" title="Electronic dance music">EDM</a> and rhythmic pop music that urban outlets will not play. <a href="/wiki/WQHT" title="WQHT">WQHT</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>, and <a href="/wiki/KPWR" title="KPWR">KPWR</a> in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> are among the most successful CHR/rhythmic stations in the U.S. and among the pioneers of the format. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bilingual_CHR">Bilingual CHR</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Bilingual CHR"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bilingual Spanish CHRs (such as <a href="/wiki/WPOW" title="WPOW">WPOW</a> in Miami, <a href="/wiki/KHHM" title="KHHM">KHHM</a> in Shingle Springs, California, <a href="/wiki/KKPS" title="KKPS">KKPS</a> and <a href="/wiki/KBFM" title="KBFM">KBFM</a> in Brownsville, Texas, <a href="/wiki/WKAQ-FM" title="WKAQ-FM">WKAQ</a> and <a href="/wiki/WXYX" title="WXYX">WXYX</a> in San Juan, Puerto Rico, <a href="/wiki/KBHH" title="KBHH">KBHH</a> in Fresno, California, <a href="/wiki/WRUM" title="WRUM">WRUM</a>-HD2 in Orlando, Florida and <a href="/wiki/KLLI_(FM)" title="KLLI (FM)">KLLI (FM)</a> in Los Angeles) combine current and recent mainstream and rhythmic CHR hits with recent Latin pop hits, targeting young Latina listeners. Similarly, bilingual French CHRs (such as <a href="/wiki/CKOI-FM" title="CKOI-FM">CKOI-FM</a> in Montreal) are common in some Canadian markets, and combine anglophone and French pop hits. Filipino-based CHR stations (such as <a href="/wiki/DWFO" title="DWFO">DWFO</a>, <a href="/wiki/DWTM" title="DWTM">DWTM</a>, <a href="/wiki/DWRX" title="DWRX">DWRX</a>, <a href="/wiki/DWRT-FM" title="DWRT-FM">DWRT-FM</a>, <a href="/wiki/DWCZ" title="DWCZ">DWCZ</a>, and <a href="/wiki/DYIO" title="DYIO">DYIO</a>) are also common in major Philippine market areas, which feature current mainstream and rhythmic CHR hits with recent <a href="/wiki/Music_of_the_Philippines" title="Music of the Philippines">OPM</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pinoy_pop" title="Pinoy pop">P-Pop</a> hits. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gold-based_CHR">Gold-based CHR</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Gold-based CHR"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gold-based CHRs combine a more limited base of currents and recurrents from the mainstream, rhythmic and/or adult CHR formats with a broader playlist of gold from the 2000s and 2010s. Stations from this format may also be called <a href="/wiki/Rhythmic_adult_contemporary" title="Rhythmic adult contemporary">rhythmic hot AC</a> if their library is particularly rhythmic-leaning. Examples include <a href="/wiki/WPOW" title="WPOW">WPOW</a> and <a href="/wiki/WFLC" title="WFLC">WFLC</a> in Miami, <a href="/wiki/WKFS" title="WKFS">WKFS</a> in Cincinnati, Ohio, <a href="/wiki/WBBM-FM" title="WBBM-FM">WBBM-FM</a> in Chicago, <a href="/wiki/WMOV-FM" title="WMOV-FM">WMOV</a> in Hampton Roads and <a href="/wiki/WKTU" title="WKTU">WKTU</a> in New York City. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="CHR/dance"><span id="CHR.2Fdance"></span>CHR/dance</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: CHR/dance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Dance/Mix_Show_Airplay" title="Dance/Mix Show Airplay">Dance/Mix Show Airplay</a></div> <p>Playing <a href="/wiki/Electronic_dance_music" title="Electronic dance music">dance</a> remixes of popular songs with perhaps some current hits from the dance charts. Pure dance-music radio stations (as opposed to CHR/rhythmic and <a href="/wiki/Rhythmic_AC" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhythmic AC">rhythmic AC</a> formats such as MOViN) are not very common but tend to have loyal audiences in the markets where they do exist. Examples include <a href="/wiki/WPTY" title="WPTY">WPTY</a> on <a href="/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island">Long Island, NY</a> and <a href="/wiki/KNHC" title="KNHC">KNHC</a> in <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>. This format is very popular on internet radio stations such as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.vpndigital1.com">KVPN Digital Broadcasting (VPN Digital 1) Los Angeles</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="CHR/rock"><span id="CHR.2Frock"></span>CHR/rock</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: CHR/rock"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Album-oriented_rock#Spin-off_formats" title="Album-oriented rock">Album-oriented rock § Spin-off formats</a></div> <p>Stations with this format, a modernized <b>Rock 40</b> format, are similar in some ways to the Adult CHR and Mainstream CHR/Pop formats, but also incorporate <a href="/wiki/Modern_rock" title="Modern rock">modern rock</a>/<a href="/wiki/Alternative_rock" title="Alternative rock">alternative</a>/<a href="/wiki/Active_rock" title="Active rock">active rock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Modern_AC" class="mw-redirect" title="Modern AC">modern AC</a> titles in an upbeat presentation. Examples include <a href="/wiki/KSXY" title="KSXY">KSXY</a> in Santa Rosa, California, <a href="/wiki/WDJQ" title="WDJQ">WDJQ</a> in Canton, Ohio, <a href="/wiki/WIXX" title="WIXX">WIXX</a> in Green Bay, Wisconsin, <a href="/wiki/KKCK" title="KKCK">KKCK</a> in Marshall, Minnesota, and <a href="/wiki/WMOM" title="WMOM">WMOM</a> in Ludington, Michigan. </p><p>An early version of rock-leaning CHR is <b>Rock 40</b>, which was popular in the late 1980s. This format, developed by Joint Communications who <a href="/wiki/Service_mark" title="Service mark">service marked</a> the name in 1987, is a young-male-targeted hybrid of CHR and <a href="/wiki/Album-oriented_rock" title="Album-oriented rock">album-oriented rock</a> (AOR) that combines the formatics of the former with the music mix of the latter. After a short period of successful ratings, the Rock 40 format began to decline because it was too similar to conventional AOR yet lacked appeal among CHR fans who desired less emphasis on rock. According to <a href="/wiki/Lee_Abrams" title="Lee Abrams">Lee Abrams</a>, a pioneer of the AOR format, Rock 40 was "too wimpy for the real rockers and too hard for the mainstream people".<sup id="cite_ref-RR_1989-07-20_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RR_1989-07-20-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stations that previously broadcast the format include <a href="/wiki/KEGL" title="KEGL">KEGL</a> in Dallas, <a href="/wiki/KKLQ_(FM)" title="KKLQ (FM)">KQLZ</a> (Pirate Radio) in Los Angeles, <a href="/wiki/KFBT" title="KFBT">KRZR</a> in Fresno, California, <a href="/wiki/WDAF-FM" title="WDAF-FM">KXXR</a> in Kansas City, and <a href="/wiki/WMMS" title="WMMS">WMMS</a> in Cleveland.<sup id="cite_ref-RR_1989-11-17_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RR_1989-11-17-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rock 40 stations eventually segued to CHR or an AOR spinoff format such as <a href="/wiki/Active_rock" title="Active rock">active rock</a> or <a href="/wiki/Modern_rock" title="Modern rock">modern rock</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_variations">Other variations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Other variations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are also variations targeting minority ethnic groups, such as <b>CHR/español</b> (<a href="/wiki/Latin_pop" title="Latin pop">Latin pop</a>), and <b>CHR/Tejano</b> (<a href="/wiki/Tejano_music" title="Tejano music">Tex-Mex and Tejano</a>) which are commonly found in <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a>, <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a>. In Greater China (People's Republic of <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a>), there is also <a href="/wiki/Mandopop" title="Mandopop">Mandopop</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cantopop" title="Cantopop">Cantopop</a> which are the top 40 variants in that language. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Key_contributors">Key contributors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Key contributors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Todd_Storz">Todd Storz</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Todd Storz"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Credit for the format is widely given to <a href="/wiki/Todd_Storz" title="Todd Storz">Todd Storz</a>, who was the director of radio station <a href="/wiki/KCRO" title="KCRO">KOWH</a>-AM in <a href="/wiki/Omaha,_Nebraska" title="Omaha, Nebraska">Omaha, Nebraska</a> in 1951. At that time typical AM radio programming consisted largely of full-service "<a href="/wiki/Block_programming" title="Block programming">block programming</a>": pre-scheduled, sponsored programs of a wide variety, including <a href="/wiki/Radio_drama" title="Radio drama">radio dramas</a> and variety shows. Local popular music hits, if they made it on the air at all, had to be worked in between these segments. Storz noted the great response certain songs got from the record-buying public and compared it to the way certain selections on <a href="/wiki/Jukebox" title="Jukebox">jukeboxes</a> were played over and over. He expanded his domain of radio stations, purchasing <a href="/wiki/WQNO" title="WQNO">WTIX-AM</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>, Louisiana, gradually converted his stations to an all-hits format, and pioneered the practice of surveying record stores to determine which singles were popular each week. Storz found that the more people heard a given song on the radio or from the jukebox, the more likely they were to buy a copy; a conclusion not obvious in the industry at the time. In 1952 he purchased what was then WLAF-AM in Lafayette, Indiana and constructed WAZY-AM/FM which is still the longest running top 40 FM station in existence to this day. In 1954, Storz purchased <a href="/wiki/WHB" title="WHB">WHB</a>-AM, a high-powered station in <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri" title="Kansas City, Missouri">Kansas City, Missouri</a>, which could be heard throughout the Midwest and Great Plains, converted it to an all-hits format, and dubbed the result "top 40". Shortly thereafter WHB debuted the first "top 40 countdown", a reverse-order playing of the station's ranking of hit singles for that week. Within a few years, top 40 stations appeared all over the country to great success, spurred by the burgeoning popularity of <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a> music, especially that of <a href="/wiki/Elvis_Presley" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis Presley</a>. A 1950s employee at WHB, Ruth Meyer, went on to have tremendous success in the early to mid-60's as program director of New York's premiere top 40 station at that time, WMCA. </p><p>Storz Broadcasting Company consisted of six AM radio stations, all featuring top 40 in the sixties. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gordon_McLendon">Gordon McLendon</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Gordon McLendon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although Todd Storz is regarded as the father of the top 100 format<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>, <a href="/wiki/Gordon_McLendon" title="Gordon McLendon">Gordon McLendon</a> of <a href="/wiki/Dallas" title="Dallas">Dallas</a>, Texas, is regarded as the person who took an idea and turned it into a mass media marketing success in combination with the development in that same city of <a href="/wiki/PAMS" title="PAMS">PAMS</a> jingles. McLendon's successful Mighty 1190 <a href="/wiki/KLIF_(AM)" title="KLIF (AM)">KLIF</a> in Dallas, along with his two other <a href="/wiki/Texas_Triangle" title="Texas Triangle">Texas Triangle</a> stations, 610 <a href="/wiki/KILT_(AM)" title="KILT (AM)">KILT (AM)</a> Houston and 550 <a href="/wiki/KTSA" title="KTSA">KTSA</a> San Antonio, which went top 40 during the mid to late 1950s, soon became perhaps the most imitated radio stations in America. With careful attention to programming, McLendon presented his stations as packages to advertisers and listeners alike. It was the combination of top 40 and PAMS jingles which became the key to the success of the radio format itself. Not only were the same records played on different stations across America, but so were the same jingle music beds whose lyrics were resung repetitively for each station to create individual station identity. To this basic mix were added contests, games and <a href="/wiki/Disc_jockey" title="Disc jockey">disc jockey</a> patter. Various groups (including <a href="/wiki/Bartell_Group" title="Bartell Group">Bartell Broadcasters</a>) emphasized local variations on their top 40 stations. </p><p>Gordon McLendon would operate approximately a dozen and a half AM, FM and TV stations at various times, experimenting with formats other than top 40 (including <a href="/wiki/Beautiful_music" title="Beautiful music">beautiful music</a> and all-news). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rick_Sklar">Rick Sklar</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Rick Sklar"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the early 1960s <a href="/wiki/Rick_Sklar" title="Rick Sklar">Rick Sklar</a> also developed the Top 40 format for radio station <a href="/wiki/WABC_(AM)" title="WABC (AM)">WABC</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> which was then copied by stations in the eastern and mid-western United States such as <a href="/wiki/WWKB" title="WWKB">WKBW</a> and <a href="/wiki/WLS_(AM)" title="WLS (AM)">WLS</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bill_Drake">Bill Drake</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Bill Drake"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Bill_Drake" title="Bill Drake">Bill Drake</a> built upon the foundation established by Storz and McLendon to create a variation called "<a href="/wiki/Boss_Radio" title="Boss Radio">Boss Radio</a>". This format began in California in early 1961 at <a href="/wiki/KSTN_(AM)" title="KSTN (AM)">KSTN</a> in Stockton, then expanded in 1962–63 to <a href="/wiki/KWRU" title="KWRU">KYNO</a> in Fresno, in 1964 to <a href="/wiki/KLSD" title="KLSD">KGB</a> in <a href="/wiki/San_Diego" title="San Diego">San Diego</a>, and finally to <a href="/wiki/KHJ_(AM)" title="KHJ (AM)">KHJ</a> in Los Angeles in May 1965; it was further adapted to stations across the western US. Boss Radio was later broadcast by American disc jockeys as a hybrid format on <a href="/wiki/Pirate_radio" title="Pirate radio">pirate radio</a> station <a href="/wiki/Swinging_Radio_England" title="Swinging Radio England">Swinging Radio England</a>, broadcasting from on board a ship anchored off the coast of southern England in international waters. At that time there were no commercial radio stations in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">UK</a>, and <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio" title="BBC Radio">BBC radio</a> offered only sporadic top 40 programming. Other noteworthy North American top 40 stations that used the Drake approach included <a href="/wiki/KFRC_(defunct)" class="mw-redirect" title="KFRC (defunct)">KFRC</a> in <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>; <a href="/wiki/CKLW" title="CKLW">CKLW</a> in <a href="/wiki/Windsor,_Ontario" title="Windsor, Ontario">Windsor, Ontario</a>; <a href="/wiki/WRKO" title="WRKO">WRKO</a> in <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>; <a href="/wiki/WHBQ_(AM)" title="WHBQ (AM)">WHBQ</a> in Memphis; <a href="/wiki/WOLF_(AM)" title="WOLF (AM)">WOLF</a> in <a href="/wiki/Syracuse,_New_York" title="Syracuse, New York">Syracuse, New York</a>; and <a href="/wiki/WEPN-FM" title="WEPN-FM">WOR-FM</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>. Most listeners identified Boss Radio with less talk, shorter jingles and more music. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mike_Joseph_and_hot_hits">Mike Joseph and hot hits</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Mike Joseph and hot hits"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mike Joseph's "hot hits" stations of the late 1970s and early 1980s attempted to revitalize the format by refocusing listeners' attention on current, active "box-office" music. Thus, hot hits stations played only current hit songs—no oldies unless they were on current chart albums—in a fast, furious and repetitive fashion, with fast-talking personalities and loud, pounding jingles. In 1977, <a href="/wiki/WTIC-FM" title="WTIC-FM">WTIC-FM</a> in Hartford, CT, dropped its long-running classical format for Joseph's format as "96 Tics" and immediately became one of the top radio stations in the market. The first Joseph station to use the term "hot hits" on the air was <a href="/wiki/WFBL" title="WFBL">WFBL</a> ("Fire 14", which played its top 14 hits in very tight rotation) in Syracuse, NY, in 1979. Then <a href="/wiki/WOGL" title="WOGL">WCAU-FM</a> in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> switched to hot hits as "98 Now" in the fall of 1981 and was instantly successful. Other major-market stations which adopted the hot hits format in the early 1980s included <a href="/wiki/WBBM-FM" title="WBBM-FM">WBBM-FM</a> <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, WHYT (now <a href="/wiki/WDVD" title="WDVD">WDVD</a>) <a href="/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit</a>, WMAR-FM (now <a href="/wiki/WWMX" title="WWMX">WWMX</a>) <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a>, which we might add was not successful against market leader WBSB B104, <a href="/wiki/KITS" title="KITS">KITS</a> San Francisco, and <a href="/wiki/WNVZ" title="WNVZ">WNVZ</a> <a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia" title="Norfolk, Virginia">Norfolk</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Don_Pierson">Don Pierson</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Don Pierson"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Don_Pierson" title="Don Pierson">Don Pierson</a> took the formats of Gordon McLendon, boss radio and PAMS jingles to the UK in the form of <a href="/wiki/Wonderful_Radio_London" title="Wonderful Radio London">Wonderful Radio London</a>, (a <a href="/wiki/Pirate_radio" title="Pirate radio">pirate radio</a> ship) and subsequently revolutionized the popular music format. On 14 August 1967 The Marine Offences Act was introduced in the UK and the pirate stations were shut down. </p><p>The British Broadcasting Corporation were chosen by the UK government to come up with a station to replace the pirates, and so in 1967 <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_1" title="BBC Radio 1">BBC Radio 1</a> started broadcasting, employing many of the DJ's from the pirate stations (<a href="/wiki/Tony_Blackburn" title="Tony Blackburn">Tony Blackburn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kenny_Everett" title="Kenny Everett">Kenny Everett</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Peel" title="John Peel">John Peel</a> etc.) and obtaining re-sings of the PAMS jingles. </p><p>In fact<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> it was Tony Blackburn who played the first pop record on Radio 1, the Move's "Flowers In The Rain". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Countdowns,_shows_and_personalities"><span id="Countdowns.2C_shows_and_personalities"></span>Countdowns, shows and personalities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Countdowns, shows and personalities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Billboard_number-one_singles" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Billboard number-one singles">List of number-one hits (United States)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Dees_Weekly_Top_40" title="Rick Dees Weekly Top 40">Rick Dees Weekly Top 40</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Top_40" title="American Top 40">American Top 40</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sean_Hamilton" title="Sean Hamilton">Sean “Hollywood” Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Official_Big_Top_40" class="mw-redirect" title="The Official Big Top 40">The Official Big Top 40</a>, Global Radio's nationally syndicated chart show in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, airing on both the <a href="/wiki/Heart_(radio_network)" title="Heart (radio network)">Heart</a> and <a href="/wiki/Capital_(radio_network)" title="Capital (radio network)">Capital</a> networks. It was previously known as <a href="/wiki/Hit40UK" title="Hit40UK">Hit40UK</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asia_Pop_40" title="Asia Pop 40">Asia Pop 40</a>, a Top 40 chart program in the Asian region</li> <li>The World Chart Show</li> <li>Pânico, Hit Parade And The 7 Best in <a href="/wiki/Jovem_Pan_FM" title="Jovem Pan FM">Jovem Pan FM</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Formats_and_radio_stations">Formats and radio stations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Formats and radio stations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Public_broadcasting" title="Public broadcasting">National public</a>/<a href="/wiki/State_media" title="State media">state-owned</a> <a href="/wiki/Radio_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Radio station">radio networks</a> in <b>bold</b>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="America">America</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: America"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>See <a href="/wiki/Category:Contemporary_hit_radio_stations_in_the_United_States" title="Category:Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States">Category:Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States</a>, <a href="/wiki/Category:Contemporary_hit_radio_stations_in_Canada" title="Category:Contemporary hit radio stations in Canada">Category:Contemporary hit radio stations in Canada</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Category:Contemporary_hit_radio_stations_in_Mexico" title="Category:Contemporary hit radio stations in Mexico">Category:Contemporary hit radio stations in Mexico</a>.</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Brazil">Brazil</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Brazil"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jovem_Pan" title="Jovem Pan">Jovem Pan</a> - CHR/<a href="/wiki/News" title="News">News</a>/<a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">Pop</a>/Top40 radio network</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jovem_Pan_FM" title="Jovem Pan FM">Jovem Pan FM</a> - CHR/<a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">Pop</a>/Top40 radio network</li> <li><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix_FM" class="extiw" title="pt:Mix FM">Mix FM</a> - CHR/<a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">Pop</a> radio network</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Trinidad_and_Tobago">Trinidad and Tobago</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Trinidad and Tobago"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/95_The_Ultimate_One" title="95 The Ultimate One">95 The Ultimate One</a>, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hott_93" title="Hott 93">Hott 93</a>, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Star_947" title="Star 947">Star 947</a>, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago</li> <li>Music Radio 97, <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Spain" title="Port of Spain">Port of Spain</a>, Trinidad and Tobago</li> <li>Platinum Hits 103.5, <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Spain" title="Port of Spain">Port of Spain</a>, Trinidad and Tobago</li> <li>Heartbeat 104.1, <a href="/wiki/Valsayn" title="Valsayn">Valsayn</a>, Trinidad and Tobago</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States">United States</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="California"><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: California"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/KIIS-FM" title="KIIS-FM">KIIS-FM 102.7</a> - <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="New_York"><a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: New York"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/WHTZ" title="WHTZ">WHTZ-FM 100.3</a> - <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Guyana">Guyana</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Guyana"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mix_90.1FM" title="Mix 90.1FM">Mix 90.1FM</a>, Georgetown, Guyana</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: United Kingdom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_1" title="BBC Radio 1">BBC Radio 1</a></b> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_1Xtra" title="BBC Radio 1Xtra">BBC Radio 1Xtra</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_1_Dance" title="BBC Radio 1 Dance">BBC Radio 1 Dance</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_1_Relax" title="BBC Radio 1 Relax">BBC Radio 1 Relax</a></b></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_(radio_network)" title="Capital (radio network)">Capital</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Capital_UK" title="Capital UK">Capital UK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_Dance" title="Capital Dance">Capital Dance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_Xtra" title="Capital Xtra">Capital Xtra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_Xtra_Reloaded" title="Capital Xtra Reloaded">Capital Xtra Reloaded</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_Cymru" title="Capital Cymru">Capital Cymru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_Liverpool" title="Capital Liverpool">Capital Liverpool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_London" title="Capital London">Capital London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_Manchester_and_Lancashire" title="Capital Manchester and Lancashire">Capital Manchester and Lancashire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_Mid-Counties" title="Capital Mid-Counties">Capital Mid-Counties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_Midlands" title="Capital Midlands">Capital Midlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_North_East" title="Capital North East">Capital North East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_North_West_and_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Capital North West and Wales">Capital North West and Wales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_Scotland" title="Capital Scotland">Capital Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_South" title="Capital South">Capital South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_South_Wales" title="Capital South Wales">Capital South Wales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_Yorkshire" title="Capital Yorkshire">Capital Yorkshire</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hits_Radio" title="Hits Radio">Hits Radio</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hits_Radio_UK" title="Hits Radio UK">Hits Radio UK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hits_Radio_Pride" title="Hits Radio Pride">Hits Radio Pride</a></li> <li>Hits Radio Chilled</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hits_Radio" title="Hits Radio">Hits Radio London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hits_Radio_Manchester" title="Hits Radio Manchester">Hits Radio Manchester</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ukraine">Ukraine</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Ukraine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hit_FM_(Russia)" title="Hit FM (Russia)">Hit FM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Europa_Plus" title="Europa Plus">Europa Plus</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="France">France</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: France"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Mouv%27" title="Mouv'">Mouv'</a></b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Italy">Italy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Italy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/RTL_102.5" title="RTL 102.5">RTL 102.5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radio_Kiss_Kiss" title="Radio Kiss Kiss">Radio Kiss Kiss</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Netherlands">Netherlands</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Netherlands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/NPO_3FM" title="NPO 3FM">NPO 3FM</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/NPO_FunX" title="NPO FunX">NPO FunX</a></b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Germany">Germany</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Germany"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Bayern_3" title="Bayern 3">Bayern 3</a> - <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Hr3" title="Hr3">hr3</a> - <a href="/wiki/Frankfurt" title="Frankfurt">Frankfurt</a></b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Switzerland">Switzerland</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Switzerland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Couleur_3" class="mw-redirect" title="Couleur 3">Couleur 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/Swiss_French" title="Swiss French">French</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Radio_SRF_3" title="Radio SRF 3">Radio SRF 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Standard_German" title="Swiss Standard German">German</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/RSI_Rete_Tre" title="RSI Rete Tre">RSI Rete Tre</a> – <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Italian" title="Swiss Italian">Italian</a></b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sweden">Sweden</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Sweden"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Sveriges_Radio_P3" title="Sveriges Radio P3">Sveriges Radio P3</a></b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Indonesia">Indonesia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Indonesia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prambors_FM" title="Prambors FM">Prambors FM</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prambors_FM" title="Prambors FM">Prambors Radio Jakarta 102.2 FM</a> (officially open took place on 18 March 1971<span class="noprint">; 53 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1971-03-18</span>)</span>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prambors_FM" title="Prambors FM">Prambors Radio Makassar 105.1 FM</a> (officially open took place on 1 July 2003<span class="noprint">; 21 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2003-07-01</span>)</span>)</li></ul></li> <li>Trax FM <ul><li><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trax_FM" class="extiw" title="id:Trax FM">Trax Jakarta</a></li> <li>Trax 90.2 FM Semarang</li> <li>Trax 95.1 FM Palembang</li></ul></li> <li>Gen FM <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gen_98.7_FM" title="Gen 98.7 FM">Gen 98.7 FM Jakarta</a></li> <li><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_FM_Surabaya" class="extiw" title="id:Gen FM Surabaya">Gen 103.1 FM Surabaya</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cosmopolitan_FM" title="Cosmopolitan FM">90.4 Cosmopolitan FM</a></li> <li>Indika 91.6 FM</li> <li>Sonora 92.0 FM Jakarta <ul><li>Sonora 98.0 FM Surabaya</li></ul></li> <li>97.5 FM Motion Radio</li> <li><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/OZ_Radio" class="extiw" title="id:OZ Radio">OZ Radio</a> <ul><li><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/OZ_Radio" class="extiw" title="id:OZ Radio">OZ Radio Bandung 103.1 FM</a></li> <li><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/OZ_Radio" class="extiw" title="id:OZ Radio">OZ Radio Jakarta 90.8 FM</a></li></ul></li> <li>Istara 101.1 FM Surabaya</li> <li>EBS 105.9 FM Surabaya</li> <li>DJ 94.8 FM Surabaya</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lebanon">Lebanon</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Lebanon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mix_FM_Lebanon" title="Mix FM Lebanon">Mix FM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virgin_Radio_Lebanon" title="Virgin Radio Lebanon">Virgin Radio</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Malaysia">Malaysia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Malaysia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eight_FM" title="Eight FM">Eight FM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GoXuan_(radio_station)" title="GoXuan (radio station)">goXuan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hitz_(radio_station)" title="Hitz (radio station)">Hitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/My_(radio_station)" title="My (radio station)">My</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Era_(radio_station)" title="Era (radio station)">Era</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_Zealand">New Zealand</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: New Zealand"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Edge_(radio_station)" title="The Edge (radio station)">The Edge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ZM_(radio_station)" title="ZM (radio station)">ZM</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ZM_Whangarei" title="ZM Whangarei">ZM Whangarei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ZM_Auckland" title="ZM Auckland">ZM Auckland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ZM_Waikato" title="ZM Waikato">ZM Waikato</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ZM_Wellington" title="ZM Wellington">ZM Wellington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ZM_Christchurch" title="ZM Christchurch">ZM Christchurch</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Singapore">Singapore</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Singapore"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Ria_897" title="Ria 897">Ria 897</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/YES_933" title="YES 933">YES 933</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/987FM" title="987FM">987 (Singapore's Number 1 Hit Music Station)</a></b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sri_Lanka">Sri Lanka</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Sri Lanka"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yes_FM" title="Yes FM">Yes FM</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Philippines">Philippines</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Philippines"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Metro_Manila" title="Metro Manila">Metro Manila</a>: </p> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/DWFO" title="DWFO">Republika FM1</a> (<a href="/wiki/Public_broadcasting" title="Public broadcasting">state-owned station</a>)</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DWTM" title="DWTM">Magic 89.9</a> (<a href="/wiki/Commercial_broadcasting" title="Commercial broadcasting">major commercial station</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/DWRX" title="DWRX">Monster RX 93.1</a> (<a href="/wiki/Commercial_broadcasting" title="Commercial broadcasting">major commercial station</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/DWRT-FM" title="DWRT-FM">99.5 Play FM</a> (<a href="/wiki/Commercial_broadcasting" title="Commercial broadcasting">major commercial station</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mainland_China">Mainland China</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Mainland China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/China_National_Radio" title="China National Radio">CNR Music Radio</a> - National CHR (<a href="/wiki/Mandopop" title="Mandopop">Mandopop</a>)/Top40 radio</b></li> <li><b><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%9B%BD%E9%99%85%E5%B9%BF%E6%92%AD%E7%94%B5%E5%8F%B0" class="extiw" title="zh:中国国际广播电台">CRI Hit FM</a> - National CHR (<a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">Western Pop</a>)/Top40 radio</b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Shanghai_Media_Group" title="Shanghai Media Group">POP 101</a> - Shanghai CHR (<a href="/wiki/Mandopop" title="Mandopop">Mandopop</a>)/Top40 radio</b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Shanghai_Media_Group" title="Shanghai Media Group">KFM 981</a> - Shanghai CHR (<a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">Western Pop</a>)/Top40 radio</b></li> <li>AsiaFM 96.5 - Chengdu - Sichuan Commercial CHR (<a href="/wiki/Mandopop" title="Mandopop">Mandopop</a>)/Top40 radio</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hong_Kong">Hong Kong</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Hong Kong"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E9%9B%BB%E5%8F%B0%E7%AC%AC%E4%BA%8C%E5%8F%B0" class="extiw" title="zh:香港電台第二台">RTHK Radio 2</a> - Hong Kong <a href="/wiki/Public_broadcasting" title="Public broadcasting">Public</a> CHR (<a href="/wiki/Cantopop" title="Cantopop">Cantopop</a>)/Top 40 radio</b></li> <li><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B1%E5%92%A4903" class="extiw" title="zh:叱咤903">Ultimate 903 (叱咤903) (90.3 - 92.1 FM)</a> - Hong Kong Commercial CHR (<a href="/wiki/Cantopop" title="Cantopop">Cantopop</a>)/Top 40 radio</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Taiwan">Taiwan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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class="external text" href="https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-RandR-IDX/IDX/90s/90/RR-1990-07-20-OCR-Page-0060.pdf">"Whatever Happened To Rock 40?"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Radio_%26_Records" title="Radio & Records">Radio & Records</a></i>. p. 60<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 18,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Radio+%26+Records&rft.atitle=Whatever+Happened+To+Rock+40%3F&rft.pages=60&rft.date=1989-07-20&rft.aulast=Kojan&rft.aufirst=Harvey&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanradiohistory.com%2Fhd2%2FIDX-Business%2FMusic%2FArchive-RandR-IDX%2FIDX%2F90s%2F90%2FRR-1990-07-20-OCR-Page-0060.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AContemporary+hit+radio" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-RR_1989-11-17-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-RR_1989-11-17_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKojan1989" class="citation magazine cs1">Kojan, Harvey (November 17, 1989). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-RandR-IDX/IDX/80s/89/RR-1989-11-17-OCR-Page-0052.pdf">"Rock 40 Vs. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 18,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Radio+%26+Records&rft.atitle=Rock+40+Vs.+AOR%3A+The+Story+So+Far&rft.pages=52&rft.date=1989-11-17&rft.aulast=Kojan&rft.aufirst=Harvey&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanradiohistory.com%2Fhd2%2FIDX-Business%2FMusic%2FArchive-RandR-IDX%2FIDX%2F80s%2F89%2FRR-1989-11-17-OCR-Page-0052.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AContemporary+hit+radio" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Format in the UK specified by OFCOM - CHR/Pop - Contemporary / Current / Recurrent hits, may contain older music. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060505061843/http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/formats/">[1]</a></li> <li>Mass Media Moments in the United Kingdom, the USSR and the US, by Gilder, Eric. - "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu Press, Romania. 2003 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/973-651-596-6" title="Special:BookSources/973-651-596-6">973-651-596-6</a></li> <li>Music in the Air: America's Changing Tastes in Popular Music (1920–1980), by Eberley, P.K. New York, 1982.</li> <li>Studying Popular Music, by Middleton, Richard. - Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1990/2002. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-335-15275-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-335-15275-9">0-335-15275-9</a>.</li> <li>Durkee, Rob. "American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century." Schriner Books, New York City, 1999.</li> <li>Battistini, Pete, "American Top 40 with <a href="/wiki/Casey_Kasem" title="Casey Kasem">Casey Kasem</a> The 1970s." Authorhouse.com, January 31, 2005. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4184-1070-5" title="Special:BookSources/1-4184-1070-5">1-4184-1070-5</a>.</li> <li>Douglas, Susan, "Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination," New York: Times Books, 1999.</li> <li>Fong-Torres, Ben, "The Hits Just Keep On Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio", San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 1998.</li> <li>MacFarland, David, "The Development of the Top 40 Radio Format", New York: Arno Press, 1979.</li> <li>Fisher, Mark, "Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation", New York: Random House, 2007.</li> <li>Goulart, Elwood F. 'Woody', "The Mystique and Mass Persuasion: Bill Drake & Gene Chenault's Rock and Roll Radio Programming <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.bossradioforever.com/html/ebook.html">[2]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080510153231/http://www.bossradioforever.com/html/ebook.html">Archived</a> 2008-05-10 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>", 2006.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080915185733/http://www.choicehits.net/">Choice Hits</a> - a weekly music chart charting the week's top songs.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160628151912/http://www.reelradio.com/">The Reel Top 40 Radio Repository</a> - a non profit Internet Museum of this "art form".</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rockradioscrapbook.ca">Rock Radio Scrapbook</a> - Canada's aircheck archive celebrating the Golden Years of North American Top 40 radio".</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stevemcvie.com">Hot Hits information site</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tvradioworld.com/directory/Radio_Formats/radio_formats_CHR.asp">Contemporary hit radio</a> at RadioStationWorld</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tunecaster.com">Tunecaster Online Pop And Rock Music Encyclopedia</a> - United States music charts and popular artists pages.</li> <li>Puttin' On The Hits - an ebook by former Top 40 Program Director John Long.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bossradioforever.com">Boss Radio Forever</a> The History of KHJ Radio, Los Angeles.</li></ul>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1&useformat=desktop" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&oldid=1257502723#CHR/rock">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Contemporary_hit_radio&oldid=1257502723#CHR/rock</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Radio_formats" title="Category:Radio formats">Radio formats</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Popular_music" title="Category:Popular music">Popular music</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Record_charts" title="Category:Record charts">Record charts</a></li></ul></div><div id="mw-hidden-catlinks" class="mw-hidden-catlinks mw-hidden-cats-hidden">Hidden categories: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_with_short_description" title="Category:Articles with short description">Articles with short description</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Short_description_matches_Wikidata" title="Category:Short description matches Wikidata">Short description matches Wikidata</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:All_articles_with_unsourced_statements" title="Category:All articles with unsourced statements">All articles with unsourced statements</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_with_unsourced_statements_from_May_2018" title="Category:Articles with unsourced statements from May 2018">Articles with unsourced statements from May 2018</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_with_unsourced_statements_from_September_2014" title="Category:Articles with unsourced statements from September 2014">Articles with unsourced statements from September 2014</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Webarchive_template_wayback_links" title="Category:Webarchive template wayback links">Webarchive template wayback links</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 15 November 2024, at 06:49<span class="anonymous-show"> (UTC)</span>.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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