Sentence examples for rock format from inspiring English sources

The third station Merlin bought from Emmis, WLUP (97.9 FM) in Chicago, is not changing from its classic rock format.

While the station did adopt a free-form rock format in 1967, it did not begin using the slogan "Where Rock Lives" that year.

By the 1980's, smaller stations began breaking away from this album-oriented rock format with New Wave artists like Talking Heads and U2.

This fueled speculation that a rock format station was returning to the city, even as in recent days the station broadcast rock, pop and smooth jazz to test its equipment and reach.

It buckled significantly in 2008, when WQCD-FM, the New York beacon long branded as CD101.9, switched to a rock format, like many other smooth jazz stations across the country.

Once one of the New York area's top stations, K-Rock has seen its share plunge in recent years, going from a rock format to talk and back to rock again.

New owners switched to more lucrative rock formats.

The 1970s, in short, was the decade in which a pattern of rock formats and functions was settled.

There exists a yawning gap for rock formats on the dial, now controlled largely by three companies: Cumulus Media, CBS Radio and iHeartMedia, the former Clear Channel.

In 2007, the band was ranked by Mediabase as the top artist in airplay across all rock formats in the US and Canada, and Billboard named them Rock Artist of the Year.

While American college radio remained R.E.M.'s core support, the band was beginning to chart hits on mainstream rock formats; however, the music still encountered resistance from Top 40 radio.