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13 unusual facts about Classic Rock


4TO FM

The station is aimed at the 35 - 54 demographic, playing a mixture of Top 40, Classic rock and pop and popular rock music.

Canal Days

Nightly concerts in the fully licensed Market Square are also a big part of the festival: Classic rock headliners, tribute bands, and local favorites provide something for every musical taste in this great outdoor venue.

Casey Shea

--Please discuss the addition of any other genres on the talk page.-->Alternative, Classic Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Folk Rock, Indie Pop, Singer-Songwriter

Charles River Broadcasting

WKPE 104.7 Orleans, Massachusetts/Cape Cod (Classic Rock, not classical) (sold to Cape Cod Broadcasting)

Classic

Classic rock is a popular radio format, playing a repertoire of old but familiar recordings.

Classic rock

KRBE-AM, Houston was another early classic rock radio station.

In 1995, the format's widespread proliferation came on the heels of Jacobs Media's (Fred Jacobs) success at WCXR, Washington, D.C., and Edinborough Rand's (Gary Guthrie) success, at WZLX, Boston.

Classic Rock

Classic rock is a radio format which plays popular rock music particularly from the late 1960s onward.

KSSZ

In 1996, the station adopted a Classic rock format, which was initially successful but a 1998 realignment of Zimmer Radio's Mid-Missouri stations sent much of the classic rock programming to co-owned KCMQ.

Thomas Goss's School of Rock

Quoted from the school's website: "The School of Rock teaches young musicians how to be in a band. Rockers-in-training learn important life skills - like how to work together, improvise, prepare new material, and perform in front of an audience - all while learning classic and modern rock that will make them better musicians. It's a great way to meet other young people interested in rock music, and to learn how to jam in a structured environment."

WHJA

The call letters at 99.3 MHz changed to WHER "Eagle 99" playing Classic rock following the acquisition by Clear Channel.

WKQY

Prior to its current format, the station aired a Classic rock format as "Eagle 100.1 & 100.9 FM", simulcasting sister station WKOY-FM.

WSGE

Classic rock is featured every Saturday night featuring mostly album cuts from the classic album rock era of the '60s and '70s.


Bloomsburg Fair

Fair week entertainment has been country music dominated but they allot two of the nights for a newer rock band and a classic rock band still in the past the fair has hosted acts such as Sugarland, Seether, Lady Antebellum, Trace Adkins, 38 Special, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Foreigner, and comedians such as Jeff Dunham and Bill Engvall.

Bôa

Their first live performance was in January 1994 at the London Forum supporting Steve and Jasmine's father, classic rock singer Paul Rodgers (of Free & Bad Company fame).

CHEZ-FM

Like Winnipeg sister CITI-FM in 2012, CHEZ 106 adopted the World Class Rock slogan, but still remains classic rock.

Classic Vinyl

Classic Vinyl is a Sirius XM Satellite Radio channel focusing on classic rock music mostly from the late-1960s to the mid-1970s.

Dick Siegel

"Angelo's" is played after every weekend morning "Over Easy" programming block on the Detroit classic rock radio station WCSX.

Electric Love Muffin

Electric Love Muffin was a Philadelphia-based hard rocking quartet of the late 1980s that spiked the melodic thrash-pop of The Replacements, Soul Asylum and other indie bands of the period with touches of country/western, classic rock and prog-rock.

Genuine Classic Rock

Its playlist comprises classic rock music released from the 1960s to the 1980s from artists such as ZZ Top, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Tom Petty and Eric Clapton among others.

Joe Lanham

The station's format consisted mainly of a mix between classic and modern rock, with heavily rotated artists including Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rush, Stone Temple Pilots, Rage Against the Machine, and Tool.

KAZM

KAZM (780 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a mixed format consisting of news, sports, variety talk, classic rock and oldies music, the Wolfman Jack show, and Coast to Coast AM at night.

Master=Dik

Master=Dik's liner notes reprint a rant by Ben Weasel from the November 1987 issue of the fanzine Maximumrocknroll wherein Weasel criticizes Sonic Youth, Hüsker Dü and several other indie rock bands from the 1980s for eschewing punk rock for a boring classic rock sound.

The Big Red Spark

The Big Red Spark was awarded nine out of ten by Geoff Barton in the October edition of Classic Rock.

The Hazey Janes

Recorded with Paco Loco (Golden Smog, The Sadies, Josh Rouse) in El Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain, the record met with significant acclaim from Q magazine, Mojo, Uncut, Classic Rock and The Word.

The Kings

As it were, the group was on the verge of a major revival as the single "This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide" became a huge radio hit in Chicago getting major play on all of the main rock stations: Classic rock WCKG, Alternative rock WXRT, and Mainstream Rock WLUP, as well as Top 40 powerhouse WLS-AM.

The Virginia Belles

Completely student-run, the Belles continue to perform an eclectic range of vocal music from oldies and classic rock to indie and R&B.

WCOA-FM

In 1993, WJLQ shifted to Urban Adult Contemporary as "Magic 100.7", which lasted only about a year before the station became "Arrow 100.7" with a classic rock format on April Fools' Day 1994, with the WWRO call letters being assigned on April 22, 1994.

WFXJ-FM

WFXJ-FM (107.5 FM) — branded The Fox 107.5 — is a commercial classic rock radio station licensed to North Kingsville, Ohio.

WKXS-FM

Still, because of low ratings, the format that included Teddy Pendergrass and Aretha Franklin was changed to classic rock on September 21, 2006.

WMLQ

After WVXU was sold to the owners of classical station WGUC in Cincinnati, all of WVXA's former repeater stations were sold off to other owners; 97.7 FM was purchased by Synergy Media, owners of classic rock station WWKR in Hart, Michigan.

WMWX

WMWX (88.9 FM) – branded ClassX – is a non-commercial classic rock radio station licensed to Miamitown, Ohio.

WRVQ

WRVQ-HD2 airs a classic rock format branded as "96.1 The Planet", also heard on FM translator W241AP 96.1 FM Midlothian, Virginia.