Oldest and Continous TOP-40 station as of today.

[e-dawg]

Hi I'm just wondering what is the oldest and the continous Top-40 station today? Is it KDWB in Minneapolis or Kiss 108 in Boston?

[fred flintstone]

Sorry, there is no longer any such format as Top 40 and hasn't been for some 20 years.

Maybe your question should be when did the last one die?

[NoWayNoCC]

The last one that died? Probably WKIC Hazard KY in the mid-'90s.

[Time Traveler]

Hi I'm just wondering what is the oldest and the continous Top-40 station today? Is it KDWB in Minneapolis or Kiss 108 in Boston?

While there may be others, the longest running one that I am aware of is 100.7-WHYI Miami, Fl, which has been around
since at least 1973....

[thebroker]

My station, WFXY in Middlesboro Kentucky, has been Top-40 since 1969, and still is...

[Johnny Morgan]

WHOT/WHOT-FM in Youngstown, Ohio have been playing Top 40/CHR since the early 1960s.  At the time the AM format moved to the FM, it was still the same ownership.

And Fred, despite your industry nudnik terminology "gotcha" ("there is no longer any such format as Top 40"), everyone discussing this seems to know what was meant by Top 40.  So much for being an uber-industry guy.  Insulation seems to be your worst enemy.

[OldGringo]

WHOT/WHOT-FM in Youngstown, Ohio have been playing Top 40/CHR since the early 1960s.  At the time the AM format moved to the FM, it was still the same ownership.

And Fred, despite your industry nudnik terminology "gotcha" ("there is no longer any such format as Top 40"), everyone discussing this seems to know what was meant by Top 40.  So much for being an uber-industry guy.  Insulation seems to be your worst enemy.

Yeah, I remember when Jerry Starr and crew did that one very nicely for Myron Jones. 1330, with 500 watts day and 1000 watts nights.

Another older one is WKAQ in Puerto Rico. Set up by Mike Joseph in 1968, it moved to FM in the 70's and is still in the top 3 or 4 stations (out of 125) in the market and still high energy CHR.

I am not sure if there is 100% format continuity, but WAPE in Jacksonville was born as an AM Top 40 around 1958 or 1959, and is now an FM CHR.

Others I can remember that go back to the 60's are

KDON (now KDON FM) Salinas, CA
KRBE (now FM) Houston
WPGC DC (1580 was Top 40 in about 1958, I think)

[Johnny Morgan]

For my mind, and for that matter, most people, Top 40 and CHR are one and the same.

It's new popular music.  Therefore, any Top 40 AM antecedent of a now-FM CHR is fair game.

[OldGringo]

For my mind, and for that matter, most people, Top 40 and CHR are one and the same.

It's new popular music.  Therefore, any Top 40 AM antecedent of a now-FM CHR is fair game.

Agree 100%.

"CHR" was invented as a chart label by one of the trades to "be different."  CHR is Top 40.

[MN Maniac]

WAPE "The Big Ape" in Jacksonville has to rank up there somewhere.  Originally on 690AM then migrated to 95.1FM in the 1980s.