Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
During this era, nearly all of radio's most popular programs were broadcast on one of three networks: NBC Red, NBC Blue, or CBS' Columbia network. The top-rated radio programs on American radio from each season: [40] [41] 1930–31, 1931–32: Amos 'n' Andy (Pepsodent, NBC-WJZ) 1932–33, 1933–34: The Chase and Sanborn Hour (Eddie Cantor, NBC ...
Radio stations across the board are used, from Top 40 Mainstream (which plays a wide variety of music that is generally the most popular songs of the time) to more genre-specific radio stations such as urban radio and country music. Paid plays of a song or treatment as bumper music do not count as an impression. During the early years of the ...
This is a list of songs which received the most airplay per week on radio stations in the United States as ranked and published by Billboard magazine on the Radio Songs (formerly Hot 100 Airplay) chart during the 2020s.
Pop Airplay (also called Mainstream Top 40, Pop Songs, and Top 40/CHR) is a 40-song music chart published weekly by Billboard Magazine that ranks the most popular songs of pop music being played on a panel of Top 40 radio stations in the United States.
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, [1] radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story: "It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a ...
This relationship ended on November 30, 1991, as American Top 40 started using the airplay-only side of the Hot 100 (then called Top 40 Radio Monitor). The ongoing splintering of Top 40 radio in the early 1990s led stations to lean into specific formats, meaning that practically no station would play the wide array of genres that typically ...
Also known as CHR/pop or teen CHR. Plays pop, and dance, and sometimes urban, alternative, rock, and country crossover as well. Often referred as "Top 40"; 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.
The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater; Hollywood Theater of the Ear; Imagination Theater; NPR Playhouse; NPR's serialized adaptations of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi; A Prairie Home Companion; Radio Spirits; Sears Radio Theater; Seeing Ear Theater; When Radio Was; The Zero Hour