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Categories: Music radio formats
List of Music Radio formats
Music radio formats constantly evolve and each format can often be sub-divided into many speciality formats.
List of Music radio speciality formats
- 80s Hits
- Active rock
- Adult contemporary (AC)
- Adult standards /Middle of the road (MOR)
- Adult album alternative (or just Adult alternative) (AAA)
- Album oriented rock (or Adult oriented rock) (AOR)
- Alternative rock (or just Alternative)
- Beautiful music
- Big band
- Black gospel
- Blues
- Canto-pop (Cantonese pop music)
- Caribbean (reggae, soca, merengue, cumbia, salsa, etc.)
- Children's radio
- Christian
- Christian Contemporary
- Classic country
- Classic hits
- Classic rock
- Classical
- College radio
- Comedy
- Contemporary inspirational
- Contemporary hit radio (CHR)
- Country
- Dance
- Easy listening
- Educational
- Electronica
- Ethnic
- European Hit Radio (EHR)
- Freeform (Disc jockey-selected)
- General service
- Gospel
- Hindi film music
- Hot adult contemporary (Hot AC)
- Hot hits (a form of Hot 100; Top 40; Top 30; Top 20; Top 10. Especially common in Europe following the advent of offshore pirate radio station Laser 558 - briefly reborn as Laser Hot Hits.)
- Hurban /CHR (bilingual Hispanic youth format)
- Jazz
- Mainstream rock
- Modern adult contemporary (Modern AC)
- Modern rock
- Music radio
- New adult contemporary /Smooth Jazz (New AC)
- New country /Young country
- News radio
- Nostalgia
- Oldies
- Polka
- R&B ("rhythm and blues")
- Radio documentary
- Ranchera
- Rap/Hip-hop
- Regional Mexican (banda, corridos, ranchera, conjunto, mariachi, norteño, etc.)
- Religious
- Rhythmic
- Rock
- Rock en español
- Romántica (Spanish AC)
- Soft adult contemporary (Soft AC)
- Soft rock
- Soul music
- Sports (Sports/Talk)
- Standards
- Talk radio (News/Talk)
- Tejano (Texas/Mexican music)
- Top 40 (also known as Top 30; Top 20; Top 10. See also Hot Hits.)
- Tropical (salsa, merengue, cumbia, etc.)
- Urban contemporary (mostly black rap, hip-hop, soul, and R&B artists)
- Urban adult contemporary (Urban AC) (black R&B, soul and sometimes gospel music, without rap)
- Urban oldies
- Variety
- World music
Categories: Music radio formats
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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