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The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio ( OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States where it was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the 1950s, when television gradually superseded radio as the medium of ...
1960–2000. A new format, All-news radio, became popular on the AM band in major cities in the late 1960s. National Public Radio (later NPR) was incorporated in February 1970 under the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967; its television counterpart, PBS, was created by the same legislation.
Radio DJ Alan Freed on New York City's WINS (AM) in 1955. Alan Freed is commonly referred to as the "father of rock and roll" due to his promotion of the music and his introduction of the term rock and roll on radio in the early 1950s. Freed also made a practice of presenting music by African-American artists rather than cover versions by white ...
A radio format or programming format (not to be confused with broadcast programming) describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. [1] The radio format emerged mainly in the United States in the 1950s, at a time when radio was compelled to develop new and exclusive ways to programming by competition with television. [2]
Easy listening. Easy listening (including mood music [5]) is a popular music genre [6] [7] [8] and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s. [9] It is related to middle-of-the-road (MOR) music [1] and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, non- rock vocals and instrumental covers of selected popular ...
Beautiful music (sometimes abbreviated as BM, B/EZ or BM/EZ for "beautiful music/easy listening") is a mostly instrumental music format that was prominent in North American radio from the late 1950s through the 1980s. Easy listening, elevator music, light music, mood music, and Muzak are other terms that overlap with this format and the style ...
Alias Jimmy Valentine. Alka-Seltzer Time. Al Pearce. Amanda of Honeymoon Hill. The Amazing Mr. Malone. The Amazing Mr. Tutt. The Amazing Nero Wolfe. The American Album of Familiar Music. The American Forum of the Air.
Rock & Roll began to dominate popular music starting in the mid-1950s with origins in a variety of genres including blues, rhythm & blues, country, and pop. Major rock artists of the 1950s include Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ritchie Valens, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Bill Haley, and ...