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'''Hits & Favorites''', also known as '''ABC AC''', is one of the 24-hour live radio formats produced by [[Citadel Media]] (through [[Citadel Broadcasting]]). '''ABC AC''' combines a highly-researched Adult Contemporary music mix targeted to women aged 25-49.
'''Hits & Favorites''', also known as '''ABC AC''', is one of the 24-hour live radio formats produced by [[Cumulus Media Networks]] (through [[Cumulus Media]]). '''ABC AC''' combines a highly-researched Adult Contemporary music mix targeted to women aged 25-49.


Citadel Broadcasting purchased ABC Radio Networks (now Citadel Media) and the ABC owned-and-operated radio stations from [[The Walt Disney Company]] in February 2006. The Citadel acquisition has been completed and did not include [[Radio Disney]] or the [[ESPN|ESPN Stations]].
[[Citadel Broadcasting]] purchased ABC Radio Networks (now Cumulus Media Networks) and the ABC owned-and-operated radio stations from [[The Walt Disney Company]] in February 2006. The Citadel acquisition has been completed and did not include [[Radio Disney]] or the [[ESPN|ESPN Stations]]. Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011.<ref name=abj-citadelcumulus>{{cite news|title=Cumulus now owns Citadel Broadcasting|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2011/09/16/cumulus-now-owns-citadel-broadcasting.html|accessdate=September 16, 2011|newspaper=Atlanta Business Journal|date=September 16, 2011}}</ref>


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==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 23:52, 17 September 2011

Hits & Favorites
TypeRadio network
Country
AvailabilityNational; also distributed in Canada, Europe, Armed Forces Radio
OwnerCitadel Media
(through Citadel Broadcasting)
Key people
Peter Stewart, Tom Kennedy, Carl Anderson
Launch date
1981
Former names
Starstation
Official website
www.hitsandfavorites.com

Hits & Favorites, also known as ABC AC, is one of the 24-hour live radio formats produced by Cumulus Media Networks (through Cumulus Media). ABC AC combines a highly-researched Adult Contemporary music mix targeted to women aged 25-49.

Citadel Broadcasting purchased ABC Radio Networks (now Cumulus Media Networks) and the ABC owned-and-operated radio stations from The Walt Disney Company in February 2006. The Citadel acquisition has been completed and did not include Radio Disney or the ESPN Stations. Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011.[1]

History

Starstation, as it was formerly known, was part of the original Satellite Music Network, with studios in Mokena, Illinois, outside of Chicago. After being acquired by ABC/Capital Cities, the format moved to studios in Dallas, Texas, along with many of the other SMN formats.

Weekday hosts

  • Frank Welch (also hosts Saturday 80's Show)
  • Richard Stevens
  • Mike Wade
  • Mary Rose
  • Donny Osmond (midday)

Weekend hosts

  • Milli Mills
  • Steve Eberhart
  • Sheryl Shannon
  • Scott Reese
  • Debbie Douglass

Former hosts

  • Citadel Media Networks had a mass firing on November 12, 2009. Those let go from the AC format include: Peter Stewart - the 20-year program director of the format, Tom Kennedy - assistant program director, Brian Kane - night time host and webmaster, and Lori St. James - longtime morning show co-host. St. James's co-host Richard Stevens now hosts a solo show on the format.
  • John McCarty hosted the Saturday 70's (later changed to 80's) Show for about a decade on the format. He died suddenly at the age of 55 on May 26, 2008 due to complications with diabetes. John was concurrently employed as the local operations manager for Traffic.com in Dallas, and had worked in local Dallas-Fort Worth radio since 1979. McCarty began his radio career in his hometown of Hopkinsville, KY in 1968.
  • Bob Leonard was the original morning man on the format, and spent nearly 25 years with the ABC Radio Networks. Leonard did many of the smooth-voiced promos for The Star Station as well. Next, Leonard became a host on the short-lived financial online talk radio site mn1.com, and is now the afternoon news anchor at WBAP-AM in Fort Worth-Dallas.

Other former hosts have included:

  • Tom Rodman
  • John Calhoun
  • Karen Williams
  • Rocky Martini
  • Robert Hall
  • Dean Richards
  • Tim Spencer
  • "VLJ"

Trivia

Richard Stevens is a former Hollywood Squares announcer and is the brother of another Squares announcer and American Top 40 host, Shadoe Stevens.

Sample hour of programming

Sources

  1. ^ "Cumulus now owns Citadel Broadcasting". Atlanta Business Journal. September 16, 2011. Retrieved September 16, 2011.

See also

Satellite Music Network