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"What station has or had the longest running format in the country"

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Hi All.I was talking to a friend the other day about radio formats.He ask me "What station has or had the longest running format in the country"I said hum.Thats a good question.These days you hear about stations flipping formats like changing of seasons.
 
There's been classical music on WQXR in New York since the 1930s (though the calls and format migrated to a different frequency a few years back); unless you're counting nebulous concepts like "variety" or "full-service" as formats, you're probably not going to find much else that goes back before the late 1950s. KDWB in Minneapolis and WHOT in Youngstown have been doing top-40 (with a move from AM to FM) since the late '50s. KABC in Los Angeles has been all-talk since 1960. WINS and KYW both go back to 1965 as all-news.

Sean Ross explored the "longest-running top 40" question earlier this year here:

http://www.radio-info.com/programming/programming-music/what-is-the-longest-running-chr
 
KBPS has been owned and operated by the Portland Public Schools since its sign-on in 1923! KOAC Corvallis OR was owned by Oregon Agricultural College(now Oregon State University), when it came into existence in 1922. It is the beginning of what is now Oregon Public Broadcasting and continues on as an NPR outlet.
 
If I'm not mistaken, WSM in Nashville has been at least partially in a country music format since it signed on in 1925.
 
whitfm said:
If I'm not mistaken, WSM in Nashville has been at least partially in a country music format since it signed on in 1925.
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We will have to depend on our friends in Nashville to be the final word on this issue, but back in the 1960s I moved to a location that put Nashville on one of the two routes I could drive to go home and see famalies. WSM has been the home of the Grand Ol Opry for all those years, but I was surprised to learn as I traversed through Nashville in those years that weekday WSM was a very typical NBC middle-of-the-road station with good personable announcers that could have worked for any NBC or CBS station just about anywhere in the country. (No Southern twang!)

I don't think WSM is in the running for a long running format category.
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
whitfm said:
If I'm not mistaken, WSM in Nashville has been at least partially in a country music format since it signed on in 1925.
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We will have to depend on our friends in Nashville to be the final word on this issue, but back in the 1960s I moved to a location that put Nashville on one of the two routes I could drive to go home and see famalies. WSM has been the home of the Grand Ol Opry for all those years, but I was surprised to learn as I traversed through Nashville in those years that weekday WSM was a very typical NBC middle-of-the-road station with good personable announcers that could have worked for any NBC or CBS station just about anywhere in the country. (No Southern twang!)

I don't think WSM is in the running for a long running format category.
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You are correct if you count the 1970's "Chicken Rock" days with Pat Sajack (Wheel of Forture, before that Channel 4 and LA weather).
 
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