Radio format
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Music radio formats constantly evolve and each format can often be sub-divided into many speciality formats. Many of the following radio formats are available only regionally or through specialized venues such as satellite radio or Internet radio.
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List of music radio speciality formats
- Active rock
- Adult album alternative (or just adult alternative) (AAA or Triple-A)
- Adult contemporary music (AC)
- Adult standards / nostalgia (pre-rock)
- Adult hits
- Album rock / album-oriented rock (AOR)
- Alternative rock
- Americana
- Big band
- Bluegrass
- Caribbean (reggae, soca, merengue, cumbia, salsa, etc.)
- Christmas music (usually seasonal, mainly December)
- Classic hits
- Classic rock
- Classical
- College radio
- Comedy
- Contemporary Christian (which is also known as CCM)
- Contemporary hit radio (CHR), occasionally still informally known as top-40 / hot hits)
- Contemporary classical music
- Country music:
- New country/Young country
- Dance (dance top-40)
- Ethnic/International
- Educational
- Full-service
- freeform radio (DJ-selected)
- General service
- Hot adult contemporary (Hot AC)
- Hispanic rhythmic
- Indian music
- Jazz
- Lite adult contemporary (Lite AC)
- Mainstream rock
- middle of the road (MOR)
- Modern adult contemporary (Modern AC)
- Modern rock
- New adult contemporary (New AC)
- Oldies - Primarily 1955-early '80s pop music
- Progressive rock
- Psychedelic rock
- Quiet Storm (most often a "day-part" format at Urban Stations, i.e. 7p-12 midnight,)
- Radio documentary
- Ranchera
- Regional Mexican (Banda, corridos, ranchera, conjunto, mariachi, norteño, etc.)
- Revolution CHR
- Rhythmic adult contemporary
- Rhythmic contemporary (Rhythmic Top 40)
- Rock
- Rock en español
- Romántica (Spanish AC)
- Smooth jazz
- Soft adult contemporary (soft AC)
- Soft rock
- Soul music
- Space music
- Spanish sub-formats:
- Traditional pop music
- Tropical (salsa, merengue, cumbia, etc.)
- Urban:
- Urban contemporary (mostly rap, hip hop, soul, and R&B artists)
- Urban adult contemporary (Urban AC) - R&B, soul and sometimes gospel music, without rap
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