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This essay, 2010 Readers Poll: The Greatest Station In The "Greatest Hits/Oldies" Format, Vote Now! , was written by Sean Ross for Radio-Info.com's Programming & Music column.
2010 Readers Poll: The Greatest Station In The "Greatest Hits/Oldies" Format, Vote Now!
What are the greatest stations in the Greatest Hits and Oldies formats? It's your turn to help decide in the first annual Ross On Radio readers poll. (Vote now!)
Nearly 120 stations have been nominated in seven categories—some are the "radio tourism" locations featured in Radio-Info's Ross On Radio column over the past 18 months. Many were suggested by readers in a recent call for nominations.
Balloting begins Dec. 9 and will stay open through the month of December. Winners will be announced in a January issue of Ross On Radio.
Readers can click the link found below the list of nominated stations to vote. Nominated stations are encouraged to share or post the link to the ballot.
Here are the nominees.
LARGE MARKET FM
KLTH (Oldies 106.7) Portland, Ore.
KLUV (K-Love) Dallas
KOLA Riverside, Calif.
KRTH (K-Earth 101) Los Angeles
True Oldies Channel National
WBZO (B103) Long Island, N.Y.*
WCBS-FM New York
WDUV Tampa, Fla.
WGRR Cincinnati
WGVX (Love 105) Minneapolis
WLS-FM (True Oldies 94.7) Chicago
WMJI (Majic 105.7) Cleveland
WOGL Philadelphia
WRBQ (Q105) Tampa, Fla.
XEPRS-FM (The Walrus) San Diego
MEDIUM/SMALL MARKET FM
KDES Palm Springs, Calif.
KKLZ Las Vegas
WAFN (Fun 92.7) Huntsville, Ala.
WAKY Louisville, Ky.
WCKM Glens Falls, N.Y.
WDRC-FM Hartford, Conn.
WFNE (Fun 106.7) Cape May, N.J.
WHPH (The Peach) Birmingham, Ala.
WIBG Cape May, N.J.
WLBW (The Wave) Ocean City, Md.
WLGZ (Legends 102.7) Rochester, N.Y.
WLNG Eastern Long Island, N.Y.
WNCL (Cool 101.3) Milford, Del.
WRLD (Boomer 95.3) Columbus, Ga.
WTIX-FM New Orleans
WVLT (Cruisin’ 92.1) Vineland, N.J.
AM
CKWW (AM580) Windsor/Detroit
KDAV Lubbock, Texas
KITI–AM Centralia, Wash.
KRWZ (Cruisin’ Oldies 950) Denver
KVI Seattle
WGHT (North Jersey 1500) Northern N.J.
WGVU-AM (Real Oldies 1480/850) Grand Rapids, Mich.
WHTG (Great Gold 1410) Monmouth/Ocean, N.J.
WKFB Pittsburgh
WMTR Morristown, N.J.
WQMV Waverly, Tenn.
WRNJ Northwest N.J.
NEW PLATFORMS
147KXOA.com
’60s Jangle Radio (Live 365)
AccuRadio/Chicago Radio Online.com – Chicago’s Best Oldies
GoldenHitsRadio.com
GreatBigRadio.com
HyLitRadio.com
QRockRadio.com Myrtle Beach, S.C.
RichBroRadio.com
RadioBop.com ’60s
Radioio.com Classic RnB
Radioio.com ’50s & ’60s
RewoundRadio.com
Sirius/XM ’60s on 6
Sirius/XM ’70s on 7
Tony-Mann.com Radio
TopShelfOldies.org
WFMU Rock ‘N’ Soul Ichiban
’80S/’90s/Next Gen
KBPA (Bob FM) Austin, Texas
KCBS-FM (Jack FM) Los Angeles
KDRF (Ed FM) Albuquerque, N.M.
KFMB-FM (Jack FM) San Diego
KZOY (Sunny Radio), Sioux Falls, S.D.
WAMS Dover, Del.
WARH (The Arch) St. Louis
WCJK (Jack FM) Nashville
WDRQ (Doug FM) Detroit
WFKL (Fickle 93.3) Rochester, N.Y.
WLGX (Gen-X Radio) Louisville, Ky.
WNOB (Bob FM) Norfolk, Va.
WNTR (My 107.9) Indianapolis
WOLL (Kool 105) West Palm Beach, Fla.
WOYE (Magic 97.3) San Juan, P.R.
WREW (Rewind 94.9) Cincinnati
WSMW (Simon 98.7) Greensboro, N.C.
WVBW (The Wave) Norfolk, Va.
CLASSIC R&B/JAMMIN’ OLDIES
KAJM (Mega 104.3) Phoenix
KISQ (Kiss 98.1) San Francisco
KKDA-AM (Soul 73) Dallas
KOAS (105.7 The Oasis) Las Vegas
KOKY Little Rock, Ark.
KRJO (Old Skool 1680) Monroe, La.
KUMU Honolulu
WDIA Memphis
WGVN (Groovin’ 1580) Lexington, Ky.
WRBO (Soul Classics 103.5) Memphis
WVOL (The Mighty 1470) Nashville
WXSH (Studio 106.1/95.3) Ocean City, Md.
XHRM (Magic 92.5) San Diego
INTERNATIONAL
Absolute Radio ’80s London*
4KQ Brisbane, Australia
Berliner Rundfunk Berlin, Germany*
CFZM (Zoomer Radio 740) Toronto
CHBM (Boom 97.3) Toronto
CKLG (Jack FM) Vancouver
CKRA (96.3 Capital FM) Edmonton, Alberta*
CKWS Kingston, Ontario
Gold UK
Nostalgie FM Paris
Solid Gold Network New Zealand*
Vinyl 107 Stockholm
XHFO (Universal Stereo 92.1) Mexico City
To vote for the greatest Greatest Hits stations, click here. And feel free to pass this link along to friends, colleagues, or listeners.
(Disclosure: Radio-Info's Sean Ross also works for Edison Research. Either he or Edison have worked in the last year with those stations that are asterisked.)
About the Writer
Sean Ross, one of the radio and music industry’s most widely respected writers and programming analysts, is the author of the newsletter Ross On Radio, an extension of his long-running column of the same name.




























