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Pages in category "Classic country radio stations in the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 306 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page)
The station musical libraries usually vary from station to station as some stations might add in a few rock and mainstream country artists that have a more traditional country influence. This type of station format is the biggest in Texas with Texas Country / Red Dirt music radio (with examples being KFWR and KHYI ), this format is also popular ...
Country. Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is primarily focused on singing stories about working-class and blue-collar American life.
National Barn Dance, the original country music radio show. (1924–1960) Grand Ole Opry, the most famous country music radio program, broadcasting on WSM from Nashville. (1925–present) Jamboree U-S-A, airing from WWVA in Wheeling, West Virginia. Spun off a popular music festival, the Jamboree in the Hills. (1933–2007).
The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio ( OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States where it was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the 1950s, when television gradually superseded radio as the medium of ...
However, in 1974, the station started playing the track "Lady" by the Chicago band Styx from an older album of theirs, resulting in other stations around the country adding the song and making the track Styx' first national Top 40 hit. [70] During the 1970s WLS ran a Sunday night music interview program called "Musicpeople". [71] [72]
Cinemagic (750) – devoted to film scores (dropped on December 7, 2021) [ 4] Radio Disney (79) – Pop music for tweens and teens (dropped on December 31, 2020) Coldplay Radio (28) – Limited time station for the band Coldplay (from July 15 until August 13, 2020) BackSpin – "old skool" rap.
At the same time, a new Country Airplay chart was introduced, which continued the former methodology of tracking plays on country stations only. [ 3 ] In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Eddy Arnold was the biggest star in country music and set several chart records, one of which endured for more than 60 years.