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unusual facts about Hot Adult Contemporary



CJEC-FM

However, on May 21, 2012 at 12 Midnight, Leclerc dropped the Rythme FM branding and adult contemporary programming from CJEC-FM, and began to identify itself as Le 91,9 FM Québec, playing a selection of hot adult contemporary music without use of personalities—the station was relaunched as WKND 91.9 (pronounced on-air as Weekend Radio 91.9) on June 20, 2012 at 6PM.

CKIX-FM

By January 2012, regarding CHOZ-FM's format shift back to hot adult contemporary, the station returned to their contemporary hit radio format as it has been always a reporter to the Canadian top 40 panel.

KEEZ-FM

While Z99 was a Hot Adult Contemporary format playing a mix of hit music from the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and today, it became a full fledged Top 40 (CHR) at night as it added hip-hop and Rhythmic Contemporary product to its rotation, thus it could be considered an Adult Top 40.

KVIL

However, as of May 2013, KVIL has leaned more hot adult contemporary/Adult Top 40 with the recent format tweaking to music from the 1990s to right now known on-air as "The New Sound of 103.7 KVIL" (the station is still listed as "AC" according to Mediabase & Nielsen BDS).

KZZO

However, after a year as a Triple-A, KZZO began evolving to Hot Adult Contemporary, later moving to Modern Adult Contemporary (after the shift of KGBY to Hot Adult Contemporary in 2007) where it would remain in that direction until June 22, 2010, when it shifted to a broader Adult Top 40 direction and adopted the "Now" approach.

New Music Weekly

Weekly editorial features include highlights of the top singles impacting radio and "spotlights" of new music from the Top40/Pop, Country, AC/Hot, and College music genres.

WEZF

As of March 2012, WEZF switched to hot adult contemporary per Mediabase reports, making WEZF have the station's second run in the hot AC format.

WMHX

On September 4, 2012, at 2PM, after playing a half-hour of "goodbye"-themed songs (ending with *Nsync's "Bye Bye Bye: and R.E.M.'s "It's The End of the World As We Know It)," WCHY flipped to a hot adult contemporary format as "Mix 105.1," launching with Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe.

WSTW

By March 2012, Philadelphia stopped having WISX as the market's only hot adult contemporary, and WSTW flipped to hot adult contemporary when Mediabase made a panel shift on WSTW from top 40 to hot AC.


see also

Q103

CKQQ-FM, a hot adult contemporary radio station in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Star 101.3

KIOI, a Hot Adult Contemporary radio station licensed to San Francisco, California

WRVW

On February 15, 1996, at 3 p.m. Central time, air personality Gator Harrison was joined in studio by pop artist Lisa Loeb, and the station changed its nickname to "107.5 The River", and its format to Hot Adult Contemporary.