Radio formats

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 154. Chapters: Rock and roll, Blues, Country music, Ballad, Music radio, Soul music, World music, Talk radio, Electronica, Talk show, Christmas music, Easy listening, Christian radio, Space music, Community radio, Public broadcasting, High school radio, Adult contemporary music, Smooth jazz, Album-oriented rock, Campus radio, Oldies, Urban contemporary, Sports radio, Rhythmic oldies, Adult hits, Contemporary hit radio, Progressive talk radio, Stunting, Classic country, All-news radio, Adult standards, Freeform, Christian country music, Mexican pop music, The True Oldies Channel, Hot Hits, Progressive rock, Radio comedy, Dance radio, Americana, List of adult alternative artists, Rhythmic adult contemporary, Ranchera, Quiet storm, Bob FM, Urban adult contemporary, Mix FM, Brokered programming, Anthology series, Boss Radio, Hurban, Highway advisory radio, Souvenirs Garantis, List of international religious radio broadcasters, CKOI, Rhythmic contemporary, Interview, List of radio formats, RockDétente, Radio ballad, Middle of the road, List of international radio broadcasters, Classic hits, Soft rock, Best Country Today, Active rock, NRJ, Top 40, Rythme FM, Mainstream rock, Frank FM, Classic rock, Boom FM, Kool Gold, Modern rock, Guaranteed Music Variety, Adult album alternative, Rejoice! Musical Soul Food, The Classic Rock Experience, Conservative talk radio, Regional Mexican, Jones Variety Hits, Good Time Oldies, Jones Standards, Full service, Rock 2.0, Mainstream Country, Genuine Classic Rock, Hits Now!, AC Pure, Country Classics, AC Active, S.A.M.: Simply About Music, Oldies Plus, CD Country, Hot Country, Bright AC, Adult Rock and Roll, Mainstream urban, True Country, U.S. Country, Drive FX, Adult-oriented pop music, The Word In Praise, Hispanic rhythmic, Solid Gospel, Mix 96.7, Christian CHR, Live radio, Today's Christian Music, Hispanic urban, Children's radio. Excerpt: Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, is characterized by specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues chord progression is the most common. The blue notes that, for expressive purposes are sung or played flattened or gradually bent (minor 3rd to major 3rd) in relation to the pitch of the major scale, are also an important part of the sound. The blues genre is based on the blues form but possesses other characteristics such as specific lyrics, bass lines and instruments. Blues can be subdivided into several subgenres ranging from country to urban blues that were more or less popular during different periods of the 20th century. Best known are the Delta, Piedmont, Jump and Chicago blues styles. World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience. In the 1960s and 1970s, a hybrid form called blues-rock evolved. The term "the blues" refers to the "blue devils", meaning melancholy and sadness; an early use of the term in this sense is found in George Colman's one-act farce Blue Devils (1798). Though the use of the phrase in African-American music may be older, it has been attested to since 1912, when Hart Wand's "Dallas Blues" became th...