{"id":505864,"date":"2026-06-18T10:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/505864\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:13:10","slug":"nys-cbs-fm-and-l-a-s-k-earth-dominate-classic-hits-top-10-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/505864\/","title":{"rendered":"NY\u2019s CBS-FM And L.A.\u2019s \u2018K-Earth\u2019 Dominate Classic Hits\u2019 Top 10. | Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Audacy\u2019s WCBS-FM New York (101.1) and \u201cK-Earth 101\u201d KRTH Los Angeles place first and second in Inside Radio\u2019s Top 10 ranking of classic hits-formatted stations, based on persons 6+ weekly cume delivery during Nielsen\u2019s winter 2025 wave (January-to-March three-month average, Mon.-Sun, 6am-12am).<\/p>\n<p>CBS-FM and \u201cK-Earth,\u201d both Marconi Award winners for Classic Hits Station of the Year, deliver a cume north of 2 million, and, coincidentally, were early believers in spotlighting older hits, having initially adopted an all-oldies format in the same year, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Audacy lands six stations in classic hits\u2019 top 10, with the rest lining up from fourth to seventh: \u201c98.7 The Spot\u201d KSPF Dallas; WOMC Detroit (104.3), the 2025 Marconi Classic Hits Station of the Year winner; \u201cBig 98.1\u201d WOGL Philadelphia; and \u201cBig 94.5\u201d KOOL Phoenix, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: auto; max-width: 100%; border: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insideradio.com\/app\/TOP10\/Top10-ClassicHits-June2026FF.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Audacy is the only company with more than one station in the top 10. The remaining four spots are claimed by: Cumulus Media\u2019s WLS-FM Chicago (94.7), the only other station with a cume over 1 million; iHeartMedia\u2019s \u201cKool 108\u201d KQQL Minneapolis, where mornings are hosted by longtime Twin Cities voice and Minnesota Broadcaster\u2019s Hall of Fame inductee Lee Valsvik; Cox Media Group\u2019s \u201c97.1 The River\u201d WSRV Atlanta, where 34-year Atlanta radio veteran Axel Lowe handles mornings; and Beasley Media Group\u2019s WROR Boston (105.7), which flipped to oldies a year after CBS-FM and \u201cK-Earth,\u201d in 1973.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audacy\u2019s WCBS-FM New York (101.1) and \u201cK-Earth 101\u201d KRTH Los Angeles place first and second in Inside Radio\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,710,61,60,278,43],"class_list":["post-505864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-free","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}