Contemporary hit radio (also known as CHR, Contemporary Hits, or Top 40) is a radio format that is common in the United States and Canada that focuses on playing current and recent popular music as determined by the top 40 music charts. There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on rock, pop, or urban music. Used alone, CHR most often refers to the CHR/pop format. The term Contemporary Hit Radio was coined in the early 1980s by Radio & Records magazine to designate Top 40 stations which continued to play hits from all musical genres as pop music splintered into adult contemporary, urban contemporary and other formats. CHR can refer to Chain Home Radar Cherokee language Contemporary hit radio Constraint Handling Rules Châteauroux-Déols Marcel Dassault Airport in France (IATA code: CHR) In role-playing games, chr refers to charisma. ... A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ... Top 40 is a radio format based on frequent repetition of songs from a constantly-updated list of the forty best-selling singles. ... For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Pop music (disambiguation). ... Urban is in or having to do with cities, as distinct from rural areas. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ... Radio and Records (R&R) is a weekly trade magazine that tracks radio airplay from the various genres including Pop, Country, R&B and many others. ... Top 40 is a radio format based on frequent repetition of songs from a constantly-updated list of the forty best-selling singles. ... Adult contemporary music, frequently abbreciated to just AC, is a type of radio format that plays mainstream and pop music, without hip-hop or rap since, as per the name, it is geared more towards adults than teens. ... The term urban contemporary was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s. ...

The term top 40 is also used to refer to the actual list of hit songs, and, by extension, to refer to pop music in general. The term has also been modified to describe Top 50; Top 30; Top 20; Top 10; Hot 100 (each with its number of songs) and Hot Hits radio formats, but carrying more or less the same meaning and having the same creative point of origin with Todd Storz as further refined by Gordon McLendon as well as Bill Drake. For other uses, see Pop music (disambiguation). ... Robert Todd Storz (1924 – April 13, 1964) is credited with being the father of the Top 40 radio format, which Gordon McLendon then went on to perfect with great commercial success during the 1950s and 1960s. ... Gordon Barton McLendon (born June 8, 1921 in Paris, Texas; died September 14, 1986) is widely credited for perfecting, with great commercial success, the Top 40 radio format during the 1950s and 1960s which was first invented by Todd Storz. ... His real name is Philip Yarbrough, but he is known by his on-air name, Bill Drake. ...

Variations

• CHR/dance — playing dance remixes of popular songs with perhaps some current hits from the dance charts. Pure dance-music radio stations (as opposed to CHR/rhythmic and Rhythmic AC formats such as MOViN) are not very common but tend to have loyal audiences in the markets where they do exist. Examples include WDRE on Long Island, NY, KNRJ in Phoenix, AZ, KNGY in San Francisco, and WDVW in New Orleans. see also: Hot Dance Airplay
• CHR/urban (also known as mainstream urban) or CHR/rhythmic (also known as rhythmic contemporary) — focusing on hip-hop and R&B. There are subtle differences between CHR/rhythmic and the urban contemporary format; urban stations will often play R&B and soul songs that CHR/rhythmic stations will not, and CHR/rhythmic stations, despite playlists heavy with urban product, sometimes have white disc jockeys and formatic elements resembling CHR/Pop, which includes R&B-influenced pop and/or dance tracks. WWPR in New York, WGCI in Chicago, and KMEL in San Francisco are are among the mos successful CHR/urban stations in the United States. WBBM-FM in Chicago, KYLD in San Francisco, WQHT in New York, and KPWR in Los Angeles are among the most successful CHR/Rhythmic stations in the U.S. and among the pioneers of the format.
• Adult CHR — these stations typically are hybrids of CHR/pop and the hot adult contemporary (Hot AC) format. Some Adult CHR stations may play more rhythmic or dance product than typical Hot AC outlets, while still shying away from hardcore hip hop. Examples include KBMX in Duluth, MN and WKRQ in Cincinnati, OH, which both report as Hot AC to R&R and Mediabase. WSTR-FM in Atlanta also falls in the Adult CHR category, but is listed in R&R and Mediabase as a CHR/Pop reporter. see also: Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks
• CHR/pop (also known as Mainstream CHR) — plays pop, urban, alternative and rock hits, and sometimes 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 originated in the 1950s. WHTZ in New York City and KIIS in Los Angeles are two of the best-known and most-imitated CHR/Pop stations in the U.S. see also: Top 40 Mainstream
• CHR/rock — Stations with this format are similar to the CHR/pop format, but also incorporate charting Modern Rock and Modern AC titles in an upbeat presentation. This format is heard on stations such as WIXX in Green Bay, WI and WMGI in Terre Haute, IN.
• CHR/'80s — arguably now an oldies format based around the 1980s decade, this was a popular format in some markets around the turn of the 21st century, but its popularity seems to have peaked, with some '80s stations evolving into Hot AC by adding '90s and later music to their playlists and others simply changing format. Two of the more popular '80s stations remaining include WPOI in Tampa, FL and WMXQ in Jacksonville, FL.

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History

Although predated by the music marketing concept of the hit parade, the Top 40 radio format was created in response to the drift of USA mass media audiences from radio to television. Both Storz and Gordon McClendon (of Dallas station KLIF) are credited with creating Top 40. With the loss of audience came the loss of sponsors and big budget radio productions, and since competing directly with the new visual medium was untenable, putting something on radio that wasn't available on TV became vital. Recorded music provided low-cost and fully produced entertainment requiring only segues between presentations. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ...

Although hit music shows such as American Bandstand occasionally appeared, television wouldn't attempt to directly compete with Top 40 radio until many years later with the rise of MTV, the early incarnation of which was a cable television version of Top 40. Dick Clark, host of American Bandstand American Bandstand was a long-running dance music television show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989. ... This article is about the original U.S. music television channel. ...

The original Top 40 radio concept as devised in the 1950s did not emphasize any one genre of music or set of artists, instead playing, literally, the top 40 songs that people in a given broadcasting area wanted to hear played. While this meant that the up and coming rock and roll genre was often a popular music choice, out-of-genre Top-40 hits included gospel songs ("Oh, Happy Day!" by the Edwin Hawkins Singers), patriotic songs ("Ballad of the Green Berets" by S/Sgt. Barry Sadler), novelties ("The Thing" by Phil Harris), and even the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" as performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Top 40 also spawned the first generation of star disk jockeys, whose between-song patter and connection with the listeners became as important as the songs themselves. the first thing that was invented was the automatic DILDO. Education grew explosively because of a very strong demand for high school and college education. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Gospel, from the Old English good tidings is a calque of Greek () used in the New Testament (see Etymology below). ... Edwin Hawkins is a gospel and R&B musician. ... Ballad of the Green Berets is a patriotic song in the ballad style about the Green Berets, an elite special force in the U.S. Army. ... SSgt. ... Phil Harris and Alice Faye Phil Harris (born Wonga Philip Harris) (June 24, 1904 – August 11, 1995) was an American singer, songwriter, jazz musician and comedian. ... The Battle Hymn of the Republic is a patriotic anthem written by Julia Ward Howe for the United States during the American Civil War as a replacement for the words to the marching song John Browns Body. ... The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a large choir sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons). ... For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ... Patter is a glib rapid speech, that accompanies and comments some actions, e. ...

According to Eberley (1982, p.219) "The driving rhythms of rock fit snugly into the unity and consistency of Top 40. For if it were one thing that Top 40 compounded, it was unity - all components (commercials, public service announcements, the excitement) were compatible with the music. The Gestalt was greater than the sum of the parts." Look up gestalt in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

As a format, Top 40 radio waned in the mid-1970s with the expansion of FM radio with its superior sound and more varied programming. Much of the popular audience moved to more sophisticated and targeted formats such as Album Oriented Rock. Radio stations began to specialize in particular types of music rather than playing current hits regardless of genre. The all-hits format has never completely died, however, and has experienced sporadic resurgences on the FM band, although it has been most commonly called contemporary hit radio (CHR) since the 1980s. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... FM radio is a broadcast technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. ... Album Oriented Rock, abbreviated AOR, was originally an American FM radio format focusing on album tracks by rock music artists rather than singles releases. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ...

Key contributors

Todd Storz

Credit for the format is widely given to Todd Storz, who was the director of radio station KOWH-AM in Omaha, Nebraska in the early 1950s. At that time typical AM radio programming consisted largely of blocks of pre-scheduled, sponsored programs of a wide variety, including radio dramas 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 jukeboxes were played over and over. He expanded his stable of radio stations, purchasing WTIX-AM in New Orleans, 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. In 1954, Storz purchased WHB-AM, a high-powered station in Kansas City, Missouri 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 rock and roll music, especially that of Elvis Presley. A 1950's 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. Robert Todd Storz (1924 – April 13, 1964) is credited with being the father of the Top 40 radio format, which Gordon McLendon then went on to perfect with great commercial success during the 1950s and 1960s. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... “Omaha” redirects here. ... Official language(s) English Capital Lincoln Largest city Omaha Largest metro area Omaha Area  Ranked 16th  - Total 77,421 sq mi (200,520 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 430 miles (690 km)  - % water 0. ... Radio drama is a form of audio storytelling broadcast on radio. ... A Zodiac jukebox A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that can play specially selected songs from self-contained media. ... WTIX is a All-Talk station based in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... NOLA redirects here. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... WHB-AM is a commercial sports radio station in Kansas City, Missouri, broadcasting on 810 AM. While its five directional towers are located along Interstate 435 in the Northland, its studios are located in the suburb of Overland Park, Kansas, also the headquarters of its owner, Union Broadcasting. ... Nickname: Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri. ... Official language(s) English Capital Jefferson City Largest city Kansas City Largest metro area St Louis[1] Area  Ranked 21st  - Total 69,709 sq mi (180,693 km²)  - Width 240 miles (385 km)  - Length 300 miles (480 km)  - % water 1. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... “Elvis” redirects here. ...

Gordon McLendon

Although Todd Storz is regarded as the father of the Top 40 format, Gordon McLendon of Dallas, 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 PAMS jingles. McLendon's successful KLIF in Dallas, which went Top 40 around 1953 or 1954, soon became perhaps the most imitated radio station in America. 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 disc jockey patter. Various groups (including Bartell Broadcasters), emphasized local variations on their Top 40 stations. Gordon Barton McLendon (born June 8, 1921 in Paris, Texas; died September 14, 1986) is widely credited for perfecting, with great commercial success, the Top 40 radio format during the 1950s and 1960s which was first invented by Todd Storz. ... Dallas redirects here. ... Official language(s) No official language See languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Largest metro area Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 261,797 sq mi (678,051 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ... PAMS of Dallas (Production,Advertising and Merchandising Services)was the most famous jingle production company in American broadcasting. ... For information on the Dallas AM radio station with the call letters KLIF from 1947 through 1990, see KFXR (AM). ... For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ...

Rick Sklar

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Bill Drake

Bill Drake built upon the foundation established by Storz and McLendon to create a variation called Boss Radio. This format began at KHJ Los Angeles in May of 1965, and was further adapted to stations across the western USA. It was later broadcast by American disc jockeys as a hybrid format on Swinging Radio England which broadcast from onboard a ship anchored off the coast of southern England in international waters. At that time there were no commercial radio stations in the UK, and BBC radio offered only sporadic top 40 programming. Other noteworthy North American top 40 stations that used the "Drake" approach included KFRC in San Francisco; CKLW in Windsor, ON; WRKO in Boston; WHBQ in Memphis, TN; WOLF in Syracuse, NY; and WOR-FM in New York City. His real name is Philip Yarbrough, but he is known by his on-air name, Bill Drake. ... 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... KHJ Radio in Los Angeles, California broadcasting Spanish-language entertainment programming as La Ranchera. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Swinging Radio England (SRE) was a top 40 offshore commercial station billed as the Worlds Most Powerful that operated briefly from 3 May to 13 November of 1966 from a ship anchored in the North Sea, three and a half miles off Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The terms international waters or trans-boundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regional seas and estuaries, rivers, lakes, groundwater systems (aquifers), and wetlands [1]. Oceans and seas, waters... KFRC is an AM and FM broadcast radio station in San Francisco, California in the United States. ... CKLW is a 50,000 watt AM radio station broadcasting at 800 kHz located in Windsor, Ontario. ... WRKO is an AM radio station based in Boston, Massachusetts, currently owned by Entercom and broadcasting on 680 kHz. ... WHBQ is an AM radio station in Memphis, Tennessee, in the United States of America. ... Wolf Wolf Man Mount Wolf Wolf Prizes Wolf Spider Wolf 424 Wolf 359 Wolf Point Wolf-herring Frank Wolf Friedrich Wolf Friedrich August Wolf Hugo Wolf Johannes Wolf Julius Wolf Max Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf Maximilian Wolf Rudolf Wolf Thomas Wolf As Name Wolf Breidenbach Wolf Hirshorn Other The call... Radio station WOR-FM was signed on the air in New York in 1948. ...

Mike Joseph and Hot Hits

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, WTIC-FM 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 WFBL ("Fire 14", which played its top 14 hits in very tight rotation) in Syracuse, NY, in 1979. Then WCAU-FM in Philadelphia 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 WBBM-FM Chicago, WHYT (now WDVD) Detroit, WMAR-FM (now WWMX) Baltimore, KITS San Francisco, and WNVZ Norfolk. Hot Hits was a radio format created by consultant Mike Joseph in 1980. ... WTIC-FM is a radio station primarily serving the Hartford, Connecticut market, though its signal can be picked up throughout most of Connecticut and into Springfield, Massachusetts. ... WFBL, located at 1390 kHz on the AM dial, is a talk radio station owned by Buckley Broadcasting and serving the city of Syracuse, New York. ... 98. ... WBBM-FM,B96, is a very successful Rhythmic Top 40 outlet in Chicago, Illinois. ... WDVD is a hot adult contemporary radio station in Detroit, Michigan, broadcasting at 96. ... The World-Wide Media eXchange is a protocol and service for GEO coded data that is in development by Microsoft. ... KITS is a San Francisco, California, USA-based radio station broadcasting at 105. ... WNVZ, also known as Z104, is a Rhythmic Top 40 outlet serving the Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Portsmouth-Hampton-Newport News radio market. ...

Don Pierson

Don Pierson took the formats of Gordon McLendon, Boss Radio and PAMS jingles to the United Kingdom in the form of Wonderful Radio London, (A Pirate Radio Ship) and subsequently revolutionized the popular music format. On the 14th August 1967 The Marine Offences Act was introduced in the UK and the Pirate Stations were shut down. Donald Grey Pierson was born October 11, 1925 and died age 70 on March 30, 1996 at Eastland, Texas. ...

The British Broadcasting Corporation where chosen by the UK Government to come up with a Station to replace the Pirates, And so in 1967 BBC Radio 1 started broadcasting having employed many of the DJ's from the Pirate stations (Tony Blackburn, Kenny Everett & John Peel Etc) and obtained re-sings of the PAM's Jingles.

In fact it was Tony Blackburn who played the first Pop record on Radio 1, The Move. Flowers In The Rain.

See also

• List of radio formats
• Urban Top 40
• List of Number 1 Hits (USA)
• Radio Caroline - pirate radio offshore station (1964-present) broadcasting off the coast of England.
• Wonderful Radio London - a rival pirate radio offshore station to Radio Caroline (1964-1967).
• Fab 40 - Radio London's top 40 chart
• Casey Kasem
• Rick Dees
• Ryan Seacrest
• Z100 (WHTZ/New York)
• KIIS-FM (KIIS-FM/Los Angeles)
• Top 40 Mainstream

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References

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• Music in the Air: America's Changing Tastes in Popular Music (1920-1980), by Eberley, P.K. New York, 1982.
• Studying Popular Music, by Middleton, Richard. - Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1990/2002. ISBN 0-335-15275-9.
• Durkee, Rob. "American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century." Schriner Books, New York City, 1999.
• Battistini, Pete, "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem The 1970s." Authorhouse.com, January 31, 2005. ISBN 1-4184-1070-5.
• Douglas, Susan, "Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination," New York: Times Books, 1999.
• Fong-Torres, Ben, "The Hits Just Keep On Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio", San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 1998.
• MacFarland, David, "The Development of the Top 40 Radio Format", New York: Arno Press, 1979.
• Fisher, Mark, "Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation", New York: Random House, 2007.
• Goulart, Elwood F. 'Woody', "The Mystique and Mass Persuasion: Bill Drake & Gene Chenault’s Rock and Roll Radio Programming", 2006.

External links

• The Reel Top 40 Radio Repository - a non profit Internet Museum of this "artform".
• Rock Radio Scrapbook - Canada's aircheck archive celebrating the Golden Years of North American Top 40 radio".
• Hot Hits information site

• Contemporary hit radio at RadioStationWorld
• Tunecaster Online Pop And Rock Music Encyclopedia - United States music charts and popular artists pages.
• Puttin' On The Hits - an ebook by former Top 40 Program Director John Long.
• Boss Radio Forever The History of KHJ Radio, Los Angeles.