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Classic hits

There are other classic hits stations in Canada, such as CJOT-FM 99.7 in Ottawa, a French language one on CFOM-FM 102.9 in Quebec City, CING-FM 95.3 in Hamilton, Hamilton's web radio station Classic Hits Online and many others.


CIRX-FM

As of 2011, due to CKDV-FM going to classic hits, CIRX-FM is the only rock station in Prince George.

CIUP-FM

Rawlco, however, describes CIUP-FM as a classic hits station, but remains an adult hits station because of fewer currents/recurrents at the station alongside 1990s & 2000s songs there.

KAJE

However, since the flip of rival KKBA to adult hits in June 2011, KAJE changed entirely to a classic hits format, mainly due to no post-2000 songs at the station.

Kimberley Crossman

She has also worked as a fill-in host on New Zealand radio station Classic Hits, periodically co-hosting the Auckland breakfast show with Jason Reeves and Justin Brown whilst usual host Stacey Morrison was on maternity leave in 2012.

KNTX

Much of the schedule consists of news headlines from ABC News, CBS News, and the Texas State Network with the rest of the schedule filled with community news and classic hits from Cumulus Media Networks' "Classic Hits" satellite feed and more.

KQQL

On December 27, 2009, the station tweaked to a classic hits format and dropped most 1960s titles, and added some 1990s titles, while emphasizing on 1970s and 1980s music.

KZJK

In September 1983, after playing "Old Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Seger for 48 hours straight, they launched a new format, "Twenty Years of Rock and Roll" as classic hits "K-JO 104".

Millinocket, Maine

The area is served by several radio stations, mainly Millinocket-licensed WSYY-FM 94.9 (classic hits/adult contemporary) and WSYY 1240(CBS Sports Radio).

Rouge FM

By 2012, most of the classic hits & ballads returned due to the 35th anniversary of flagship CITE-FM Montreal, going towards its old RockDétente direction.

WestStar TalkRadio Network

The network also distributes Goddard's Gold and The 70s, two oldies/classic hits syndicated series hosted by KOOL-FM long-time Phoenix-based on-air radio broadcaster Steve Goddard, and An American Christmas, an annual special hosted by Mannheim Steamroller.

WGWE

The station, with a tower atop Fourth Street in the village of Little Valley, broadcasts a loosely defined classic hits format on 105.9 MHz and operates under the ownership of the Seneca Nation of Indians; the Seneca nation purchased WGWE's construction permit from Randy Michaels in early 2009.

WLGC

WLGC-FM, a classic hits radio station (105.7 FM) licensed to Greenup, Kentucky, United States

WSMM

The station broadcasts at 102.3 MHz and broadcasts an oldies/classic hits format branded as 97.7 and 102.3, The Stream, in simulcast with WSSM 97.7 FM Goshen.

WUBU

The station's original owner was Larry Langford, Jr., a former Chicago air personality who owned the similarly formatted WLLJ-AM 910 in Cassopolis, Michigan and continues to own that station today (now as classic hits-formatted WGTO).

WWCB

WWCB (1370 AM) is an oldies/classic hits radio station licensed to Corry, Pennsylvania and serving Corry, Union City, eastern Erie County, Pennsylvania and Clymer, New York from its studio located at 122 North Center Street (PA 426) in downtown Corry and a transmitter facility off of West Columbus Avenue (U.S. Route 6).


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1996 Wimbledon Championships

The performance ran for twenty minutes and consisted of Richard's classic hits such as Living Doll and Congratulations, as well as the Elvis Presley hit "All Shook Up".

1ZW

The station then became part of the Community Radio Network in 1998 with all content outside the breakfast show being fed from Taupo and in 2001 part of the Classic Hits FM network with the station name becoming Classic Hits Radio Waitomo.

Boom FM

It is the only Boom FM station not using the classic hits format, though its logo uses the same lettering and 45 RPM plastic insert device as its Quebec counterparts.

Carly Simon: Live from Martha's Vineyard

It featured Simon and a live band performing the majority of her Coming Around Again album as well as her classic hits such as "Anticipation", "You're So Vain", and "Nobody Does It Better".

Don't Say No

It stands as Squier's biggest career album, including the classic hits "In the Dark", "Lonely Is the Night", "My Kinda Lover" and "The Stroke".

G107

WGSM (aka G107), a Classic Hits radio station serving the Westmoreland County area

Karunaratne Abeysekera

Abeysekera was also behind the Sinhala translation of classic hits such as ' Master Sir' written and composed by Nimal Mendis.

KEWL-FM

Additional programming includes ABC Radio News, Huckabee Report, Casey Kasem and the American Top 40, the 70's Classic Hits Show, Dick Bartley's Classic Countdown Show and Dick Clark's Rock, Roll and Remember Radio Show and Daily Music Calendar.

KIRO-FM

On August 12, 2008 at 4:23 AM, KBSG's frequency began to simulcast sister news/talk radio station KIRO; the final song as a classic hits station, Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones, faded out as the FM station joined KIRO AM's Wall Street Journal This Morning in progress.

KLOU

In the late 2000s, KLOU dropped its "103.3 KLOU" branding and oldies format for a more classic hits approach as "My 103.3", launching with Bachman-Turner Overdrive's Takin' Care of Business In 2010, the station rebranded to 70s and 80s hits as "Rewind 103.3." On May 31, 2011, KLOU shifted their format to back to 1960s-early 1980s classic hits, and rebranded as "Oldies 103.3".

Ö2

Music programming is chosen through based on many criteria and is mostly made up of oldies, classic hits and even traditional Volksmusik.

Reunited – Cliff Richard and The Shadows

It features re-recordings of their classic hits from the late 1950s and early 1960s, and three songs from the Rock and roll era not previously recorded by them back then, C'mon Everybody, Sea Cruise, and the album's only single Singing the Blues.

Sovereign Communications

Marie, Michigan market, except for college radio station WLSO and the two classic hits stations owned by Darby Advertising under their "Radio Eagle" format (WUPN & WMJT).

The Lost 45s

"The Lost 45s" with "Barry Scott" is an American Classic Hits retro music radio program playing Top 40 hits from the 70s and 80s that you don't often hear anymore.

Tommy Funderburk

The album contains a cappella versions of classic hits from the seventies, for example "Stairway to Heaven", "I Shot the Sheriff", "What's Goin' On", and "Sir Duke".

WHIO-FM

From 2000 until 2006, "The Point" aired classic hits from the late 1970s and 1980s and was briefly simulcast on WDTP, 95.3 in Xenia before reverting to the WZLR calls as classic rock-formatted "The Eagle." Before that it was WCLR at first as "Clear 95" airing easy listening music (as did its predecessor WPTW-FM for many years) when the transmitter was moved from its studios to its present location near the rural community of Houston just north of Piqua in 1986.

WQUS

U.S. 103.1's format has a base of Classic Rock/Classic Hits, but the station also plays some alternative rock and other rock songs from the 1990s (such as "Counting Blue Cars" by Dishwalla) and up to recurrent product (such as "Paralyzer" by Finger Eleven).

WZPR

On May 14, 2009 WZPR started simulcasting sister station Classic Hits 104.9 WFMZ.