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Re: Radio Reacts To Guns N' Roses Single
Someone tell me the difference between active and mainstream rock.
According to Wikipedia:
Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across Canada and the United States. Active rock plays current rock artists with a mix of classic rock songs. An active rock station may include songs by known and popular artists such as Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, and AC/DC in its playlist. Whereas a modern rock or classic rock station would not. Similar to active rock stations, mainstream rock stations play current rock music, but concentrate more on classic rock than active rock stations do.
Mainstream rock stations are between classic rock and active rock on the programming spectrum, in that they play more classic rock than active rock stations, but play more modern rock than classic rock stations. In many ways, mainstream rock is a successor to the widespread album-oriented rock (AOR) format created in the 1970s.
So it goes Classic/Mainstream/Active/Modern in the mix of old to new rock.
Re: Radio Reacts To Guns N' Roses Single
bigbri wrote:Someone tell me the difference between active and mainstream rock.
According to Wikipedia:
Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across Canada and the United States. Active rock plays current rock artists with a mix of classic rock songs. An active rock station may include songs by known and popular artists such as Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, and AC/DC in its playlist. Whereas a modern rock or classic rock station would not. Similar to active rock stations, mainstream rock stations play current rock music, but concentrate more on classic rock than active rock stations do.
Mainstream rock stations are between classic rock and active rock on the programming spectrum, in that they play more classic rock than active rock stations, but play more modern rock than classic rock stations. In many ways, mainstream rock is a successor to the widespread album-oriented rock (AOR) format created in the 1970s.
So it goes Classic/Mainstream/Active/Modern in the mix of old to new rock.
That made my head hurt.
Someone revise that.
Re: Radio Reacts To Guns N' Roses Single
CD was #1 for the fourth straight day on WKLQ in Grand Rapids. I just heard the countdown and the do the top five requested of the day. The funny thing is that AC/DC and Metallica were not on the top five at all. This is the best rock station in GR so this great news. They did chop the intro off when they played the song. This was the first time I heard it on WKLQ.
