Mainstream Top 40

This is a sample of Philadelphia’s longtime CHR, hosted by one of my favorite personalities of all time — Terry “Motormouth”…

At the start of the 90’s, as mainstream pop music became much more fragmented, many formerly “Mainstream” CHRs chose to…

  WBLI was (and may still be) an upbeat, fun-sounding CHR outlet, offering Long Island a locally focused alternative to…

“So hot, it’s cool…Thunder 107” — This aircheck represents a great example of small market Mainstream CHR in the early…

During the mid-90’s, KIDR (740 AM) in Phoenix was one of several radio stations across the U.S. affiliated with the…

By the late 80’s, it seemed that many CHRs in the United States began leaning towards either hairband or rhythmic…