Trends are funny. Funny in an interesting way, and often caused by forces not necessarily obvious. Such an example is top 40 radio, represented locally by KIIS (102.7 FM). The station, which almost ...

CHICAGO - The posters hanging on the walls of the broadcasting booth at Nine FM are as eclectic as the music the radio station plays - Pink Floyd and Aerosmith sharing space with the Marx Brothers, ...

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- One of the surest ways to feel older is to listen to the radio and hear songs from your childhood -- or, even worse, your adulthood -- described as ''oldies." If over the years it ...

According to the latest Nielsen ratings for metro Los Angeles released last week, oldies-formatted KRTH (101.1 FM) dominated the city, with a 6.4 share of the audience of listeners aged six and over, ...

To be clear, when I say “in town,” I mean broadcasting from Playas de Rosarito, a suburb of Tijuana in Baja California, Mexico. And when I say “new oldies station,” I mean four hours per day, on a ...

Have you noticed that the older you get, the newer the oldies on the radio become? If you're in your sixties, your oldies are Elvis and doo-wop. If you're in your fifties, your oldies are Motown and ...