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One of the first beautiful music radio stations in the US was KIXL in the Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas, area. As early as 1947 it played orchestral music on AM radio (1040), and later on FM (104.5). KIXL changed to KEZL (as in "easy listening") in 1973, but ended with a change to adult contemporary in 1976.
It played quarter hour sweeps of soft, instrumental music, with an occasional soft vocal. Beginning in 1967, it was simulcast with KMEO (740 AM). During this time, 96.9 used an FM suffix, as KMEO-FM, with its easy listening format offered on both AM and FM radio.
This is a list of terrestrial, satellite and internet radio stations which identify themselves as playing jazz in any of its forms (mainstream, traditional, fusion, acid, and smooth, among others), or have substantial jazz programming, that can be heard in the United States.
Spa, formerly Spa 73, is a new-age, ambient and instrumental music channel on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 68 [1] (previously 73), XM Satellite Radio channel 68 [2] (previously 72, where it replaced Audio Visions, which was XM 77) and on DISH Network channel 6068. Until February 9, 2010, it was on DirecTV channel 856.
KAHM (102.1 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station broadcasting a beautiful music and easy listening radio format. It is licensed to Spring Valley, Arizona, and it serves the Prescott / Flagstaff / Phoenix area. The station airs quarter hour sweeps of soft music, half instrumental and half vocal.
Escape has occasionally been pre-empted in favor of special programming, as for a seasonal "Radio Hanukkah" format in 2009 and 2010, and a "Live Rock Labor Day Weekend" format in 2010. On August 13, 2015, Escape was dropped from radios and DISH Network and became available only on channel 751, accessible to online users, and to users of the ...
WRR (101.1 MHz) is a listener-supported, non-commercial FM radio station in Dallas, Texas, which provides a full-time classical music radio format.WRR 101.1 plays Symphony #9 by Ludwig van Beethoven before flipping to Christmas music after Thanksgiving until January 1.
Easy listening (including mood music [5]) is a popular music genre [6] [7] [8] and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to the 1970s. [9] It is related to middle of the road (MOR) music [1] and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, non-rock vocals and instrumental covers of selected popular rock songs.