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39-397: WABF may refer to: WABF (AM) , a radio station (1480 AM) licensed to serve Mobile, Alabama, United States WBAI , a radio station (99.5 FM) licensed to serve New York, New York, United States, which held the call sign WABF from 1941 to 1953 WERM (AM) , a radio station (1220 AM) licensed to serve Fairhope, Alabama, United States, which held

78-448: A talk radio format. WABB's longtime owner, president, and general manager Bernie Dittman died on October 25, 2006, after suffering from a stroke the previous week. Dittman's daughter Betsey succeeded him after relocating to Mobile from Chicago . In its final years as WABB, the station's talk format featured a line-up of primarily nationally syndicated conservative talk programming along with some locally produced programs. Some of

117-560: A dozen and a half AM, FM and TV stations at various times, experimenting with formats other than top 40 (including beautiful music and all-news). In the early 1960s Rick Sklar also developed the Top 40 format for radio station WABC in New York City which was then copied by stations in the eastern and mid-western United States such as WKBW and WLS . Bill Drake built upon the foundation established by Storz and McLendon to create

156-768: A modernized Rock 40 format, are similar in some ways to the Adult CHR and Mainstream CHR/Pop formats, but also incorporate modern rock / alternative / active rock and modern AC titles in an upbeat presentation. Examples include KSXY in Santa Rosa, California, WDJQ in Canton, Ohio, WIXX in Green Bay, Wisconsin, KKCK in Marshall, Minnesota, and WMOM in Ludington, Michigan. An early version of rock-leaning CHR

195-792: A more limited base of currents and recurrents from the mainstream, rhythmic and/or adult CHR formats with a broader playlist of gold from the 2000s and 2010s. Stations from this format may also be called rhythmic hot AC if their library is particularly rhythmic-leaning. Examples include WPOW and WFLC in Miami, WKFS in Cincinnati, Ohio, WBBM-FM in Chicago, WMOV in Hampton Roads and WKTU in New York City. Playing dance remixes of popular songs with perhaps some current hits from

234-1094: A pioneer of the AOR format, Rock 40 was "too wimpy for the real rockers and too hard for the mainstream people". Stations that previously broadcast the format include KEGL in Dallas, KQLZ (Pirate Radio) in Los Angeles, KRZR in Fresno, California, KXXR in Kansas City, and WMMS in Cleveland. Rock 40 stations eventually segued to CHR or an AOR spinoff format such as active rock or modern rock . There are also variations targeting minority ethnic groups, such as CHR/español ( Latin pop ), and CHR/Tejano ( Tex-Mex and Tejano ) which are commonly found in Arizona , Texas , California , and Mexico . In Greater China (People's Republic of China , Taiwan , and Hong Kong ), there

273-946: A ship anchored off the coast of southern England in international waters. At that time there were no commercial radio stations in the UK , and BBC radio offered only sporadic top 40 programming. Other noteworthy North American top 40 stations that used the Drake approach included KFRC in San Francisco ; CKLW in Windsor, Ontario ; WRKO in Boston ; WHBQ in Memphis; WOLF in Syracuse, New York ; and WOR-FM in New York City . Most listeners identified Boss Radio with less talk, shorter jingles and more music. Mike Joseph's "hot hits" stations of

312-663: A variation called " Boss Radio ". This format began in California in early 1961 at KSTN in Stockton, then expanded in 1962–63 to KYNO in Fresno, in 1964 to KGB in San Diego , and finally to KHJ in Los Angeles in May 1965; it was further adapted to stations across the western US. Boss Radio was later broadcast by American disc jockeys as a hybrid format on pirate radio station Swinging Radio England , broadcasting from on board

351-556: Is Rock 40 , which was popular in the late 1980s. This format, developed by Joint Communications who service marked the name in 1987, is a young-male-targeted hybrid of CHR and album-oriented rock (AOR) that combines the formatics of the former with the music mix of the latter. After a short period of successful ratings, the Rock 40 format began to decline because it was too similar to conventional AOR yet lacked appeal among CHR fans who desired less emphasis on rock. According to Lee Abrams ,

390-731: Is a radio format that is common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 music charts . There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on rock , pop , or urban music . Used alone, CHR most often refers to the CHR-pop format. The term contemporary hit radio was coined in the early 1980s by Radio & Records magazine to designate Top 40 stations which continued to play hits from all musical genres as pop music splintered into Adult contemporary , Urban contemporary , Contemporary Christian and other formats. The term "top 40"

429-510: Is also Mandopop and Cantopop which are the top 40 variants in that language. Credit for the format is widely given to Todd Storz , who was the director of radio station KOWH -AM in Omaha, Nebraska in 1951. At that time typical AM radio programming consisted largely of full-service " block programming ": pre-scheduled, sponsored programs of a wide variety, including radio dramas and variety shows. Local popular music hits, if they made it on

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468-477: Is also used to refer to the actual list of hit songs, and, by extension, to refer to pop music in general. The term has also been modified to describe top 50 ; top 30 ; top 20 ; top 10 ; hot 100 (each with its number of songs) and hot hits radio formats, but carrying more or less the same meaning and having the same creative point of origin with Todd Storz as further refined by Gordon McLendon as well as Bill Drake . The format became especially popular in

507-491: Is powered at 5,000 watts non-directional . But at night, to avoid interference to other stations on 1480 AM , WABF reduces power to 4,400 watts and uses a directional antenna . The transmitter is on Dumaine Road at Conception Street Road in Mobile. WABF shares its transmitter site with co-owned WERM 1220 AM . The station first signed on the air on June 19, 1948 ; 76 years ago  ( 1948-06-19 ) . It

546-736: The Educational Media Foundation (EMF). That station flipped to the K-LOVE Christian Contemporary format on March 1, 2012. It adopted the call sign WLVM . The EMF sale excluded WABB AM, which the Dittman family had chosen to retain for the time being, therefore retaining the rights to the WABB call sign. The Dittman family closed the sale of the AM station to Omni Broadcasting on October 24, 2012, and

585-531: The urban contemporary format; urban stations will often play R&B and soul songs that CHR/rhythmic stations will not, and CHR/rhythmic stations, despite playlists heavy with urban product, sometimes have white disc jockeys and will include EDM and rhythmic pop music that urban outlets will not play. WQHT in New York , and KPWR in Los Angeles are among the most successful CHR/rhythmic stations in

624-1885: The 1950s. Examples of CHR/pop stations in the United States, Canada, and Brazil include WHTZ in New York (NY), KIIS-FM in Los Angeles (CA), KYLD and KMVQ-FM in San Francisco (CA), KHKS in Dallas (TX), KRBE in Houston (TX), CFBT-FM in Vancouver (BC), CKFM-FM and CKIS-FM in Toronto (ON), KSMG in San Antonio (TX), WIOQ in Philadelphia (PA), WPRO-FM in Providence (RI), WXKS-FM in Boston (MA), WIFC in Wausau (WI), WWPW and WWWQ in Atlanta (GA), WKSC-FM in Chicago (IL), WFLZ in Tampa / St. Petersburg (FL), WHYI-FM in Miami (FL), KLUC in Las Vegas (NV), WNCI in Columbus, Ohio (OH), WZPL (IN) in Indianapolis , KDWB in Minneapolis / St. Paul (MN), and Jovem Pan FM (with language) in Brazil . The stations generally gain large popularity with this format. These stations typically are hybrids of

663-552: The Midwest and Great Plains, converted it to an all-hits format, and dubbed the result "top 40". Shortly thereafter WHB debuted the first "top 40 countdown", a reverse-order playing of the station's ranking of hit singles for that week. Within a few years, top 40 stations appeared all over the country to great success, spurred by the burgeoning popularity of rock and roll music, especially that of Elvis Presley . A 1950s employee at WHB, Ruth Meyer, went on to have tremendous success in

702-1193: The U.S. and among the pioneers of the format. Bilingual Spanish CHRs (such as WPOW in Miami, KHHM in Shingle Springs, California, KKPS and KBFM in Brownsville, Texas, WKAQ and WXYX in San Juan, Puerto Rico, KBHH in Fresno, California, WRUM -HD2 in Orlando, Florida and KLLI (FM) in Los Angeles) combine current and recent mainstream and rhythmic CHR hits with recent Latin pop hits, targeting young Latina listeners. Similarly, bilingual French CHRs (such as CKOI-FM in Montreal) are common in some Canadian markets, and combine anglophone and French pop hits. Filipino-based CHR stations (such as DWFO , DWTM , DWRX , DWRT-FM , DWCZ , and DYIO ) are also common in major Philippine market areas, which feature current mainstream and rhythmic CHR hits with recent OPM and P-Pop hits. Gold-based CHRs combine

741-558: The air at all, had to be worked in between these segments. Storz noted the great response certain songs got from the record-buying public and compared it to the way certain selections on jukeboxes were played over and over. He expanded his domain of radio stations, purchasing WTIX-AM in New Orleans , Louisiana, gradually converted his stations to an all-hits format, and pioneered the practice of surveying record stores to determine which singles were popular each week. Storz found that

780-464: The call sign WABF from 1961 to 2017 WZEW , a radio station (92.1 FM) licensed to serve Fairhope, Alabama, United States, which held the call sign WABF-FM from 1966 to 1973 the ICAO code for Kornasoren Airport Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title WABF . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

819-407: The contemporary hit radio (CHR/pop) and Hot AC formats. This format contains a strong focus on current charts, contemporary and recurrent hits as well as placing a minority of older, classic hits from the 2000s and early to mid 2010s onto the playlist. Adult CHR stations play pop-friendly rhythmic, dance and hip hop titles alongside standard mainstream pop and pop rock fare, and often shying away from

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858-481: The dance charts. Pure dance-music radio stations (as opposed to CHR/rhythmic and rhythmic AC formats such as MOViN) are not very common but tend to have loyal audiences in the markets where they do exist. Examples include WPTY on Long Island, NY and KNHC in Seattle . This format is very popular on internet radio stations such as KVPN Digital Broadcasting (VPN Digital 1) Los Angeles . Stations with this format,

897-499: The development in that same city of PAMS jingles. McLendon's successful Mighty 1190 KLIF in Dallas, along with his two other Texas Triangle stations, 610 KILT (AM) Houston and 550 KTSA San Antonio, which went top 40 during the mid to late 1950s, soon became perhaps the most imitated radio stations in America. With careful attention to programming, McLendon presented his stations as packages to advertisers and listeners alike. It

936-424: The early to mid-60's as program director of New York's premiere top 40 station at that time, WMCA. Storz Broadcasting Company consisted of six AM radio stations, all featuring top 40 in the sixties. Although Todd Storz is regarded as the father of the top 100 format , Gordon McLendon of Dallas , Texas, is regarded as the person who took an idea and turned it into a mass media marketing success in combination with

975-544: The late 1970s and early 1980s attempted to revitalize the format by refocusing listeners' attention on current, active "box-office" music. Thus, hot hits stations played only current hit songs—no oldies unless they were on current chart albums—in a fast, furious and repetitive fashion, with fast-talking personalities and loud, pounding jingles. In 1977, WTIC-FM in Hartford, CT, dropped its long-running classical format for Joseph's format as "96 Tics" and immediately became one of

1014-449: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WABF&oldid=864744993 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Airport disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WABF (AM) By day, WABF

1053-786: The main offering." The adult CHR format is sometimes utilized by stations which are heritage Top 40/CHR outlets in their respective markets which have been in the format since the 1970s or 1980s or FM successors to former AM top 40s, with examples in the UK including the Hits Radio Network compiled of heritage radio stations including Clyde 1 in Glasgow and Radio City in Liverpool . Also known as CHR/rhythmic, rhythmic crossover, or CHR/urban. These stations focus on hip-hop and dance-pop . There are differences between CHR/rhythmic and

1092-433: The mid-sixties as radio stations constrained disc jockeys to numbered play lists in the wake of the payola scandal. Also known as CHR/pop or teen CHR. Plays pop , and dance , and sometimes urban , alternative , rock , and country crossover as well. Often referred as " Top 40 "; in terms of incorporating a variety of genres of music, CHR/pop is the successor to the original concept of top 40 radio which originated in

1131-569: The more people heard a given song on the radio or from the jukebox, the more likely they were to buy a copy; a conclusion not obvious in the industry at the time. In 1952 he purchased what was then WLAF-AM in Lafayette, Indiana and constructed WAZY-AM/FM which is still the longest running top 40 FM station in existence to this day. In 1954, Storz purchased WHB -AM, a high-powered station in Kansas City, Missouri , which could be heard throughout

1170-511: The most rhythmic CHR titles until they are established hits on the format. Examples in the U.S. include WIXX in Green Bay, WKRQ in Cincinnati and KZZO in Sacramento. United Kingdom (UK) media regulator Ofcom states: "where a format requires a contemporary and chart music service, the main diet must be of modern music, reflecting the charts of today and recent months. Older, classic tracks would not be out of place, but only as spice to

1209-591: The new owners changed the call sign to WTKD , following the flip to sports talk . Big Fish Broadcasting reserved the WABB call letters for their silent AM radio station in Belton, South Carolina . WABF was sold to Donald Pugh's Eternity Record Company LLC at a purchase price of $ 175,000. The transaction was consummated on July 15, 2014. On August 19, 2014, the station changed its call sign to WERM , airing an urban gospel format. The station's gospel format gave way to

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1248-527: The personalities on the station included national hosts such as Laura Ingraham , Michael Smerconish , Lou Dobbs , and Jerry Doyle . WALA-TV 's morning newscast was simulcast weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. WABB was the radio home of Mobile's minor league baseball team the Mobile BayBears from the 2001 through the 2006 seasons. On February 17, 2012, the Dittman family announced on its website that it has decided to sell WABB-FM to

1287-472: The song " Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again " by Bob Dylan . WABB-FM was originally a simulcast of its AM sister station before switching to album oriented rock a few years later. When WABB-FM made the move to the contemporary hit radio format in 1984, the AM station segued to Adult Top 40 . But as FM became the preferred band for music listening, WABB 1480 flipped to

1326-918: The standards and swap shop programming from sister station WABF in early February 2017. WABF lost its transmitter site and ran into issues finding a new site, leading to that format migrating to 1480. WERM's urban gospel music migrated to the 1220 facility, which is diplexed on the 1480 tower site. On December 6, 2017, the stations swapped call signs, with WERM assuming its current WABF calls. During its long history, WABB-AM-FM were home to many disc jockeys and news anchors who moved up to major markets and radio networks, including Scott Shannon (later with WHTZ , WPLJ and WCBS-FM in New York City ), Leslie Fram, Norman Robinson, Ron Anthony, Dennis "Hound Dog" Stacy, Michael Stuart (Marathon Mike) and Raymond Bannister. Contemporary hit radio Contemporary hit radio (also known as CHR , contemporary hits , hit list , current hits , hit music , top 40 , or pop radio )

1365-413: The station. Dittman switched WABB to a Top 40 format, aimed at young listeners looking for their favorite contemporary hits. WABB had an FM simulcast from the very beginning, starting with 107.9 MHz and later 102.1 MHz until it was discontinued in the 1950s. As FM broadcasting became more popular, the station put a new station on the air. WABB-FM (97.5 FM) began on February 5, 1973, with

1404-568: The top radio stations in the market. The first Joseph station to use the term "hot hits" on the air was WFBL ("Fire 14", which played its top 14 hits in very tight rotation) in Syracuse, NY, in 1979. Then WCAU-FM in Philadelphia switched to hot hits as "98 Now" in the fall of 1981 and was instantly successful. Other major-market stations which adopted the hot hits format in the early 1980s included WBBM-FM Chicago , WHYT (now WDVD ) Detroit , WMAR-FM (now WWMX ) Baltimore , which we might add

1443-470: Was not successful against market leader WBSB B104, KITS San Francisco, and WNVZ Norfolk . Don Pierson took the formats of Gordon McLendon, boss radio and PAMS jingles to the UK in the form of Wonderful Radio London , (a pirate radio ship) and subsequently revolutionized the popular music format. On 14 August 1967 The Marine Offences Act was introduced in the UK and the pirate stations were shut down. The British Broadcasting Corporation were chosen by

1482-600: Was owned by the Mobile Register daily newspaper. The original call sign was WABB , which stood for " A labama's B est B roadcasters." The studios were on Government Street in downtown Mobile until 1969. WABB was a network affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System , carrying its dramas, comedies, news and sports during the " Golden Age of Radio ." Owner Bernie Dittman moved to Mobile from his native Ohio to join his father J.W. at

1521-540: Was the combination of top 40 and PAMS jingles which became the key to the success of the radio format itself. Not only were the same records played on different stations across America, but so were the same jingle music beds whose lyrics were resung repetitively for each station to create individual station identity. To this basic mix were added contests, games and disc jockey patter. Various groups (including Bartell Broadcasters ) emphasized local variations on their top 40 stations. Gordon McLendon would operate approximately

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