Trends are funny. Funny in an interesting way, and often caused by forces not necessarily obvious. Such an example is top 40 radio, represented locally by KIIS (102.7 FM). The station, which almost ...

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- One of the surest ways to feel older is to listen to the radio and hear songs from your childhood -- or, even worse, your adulthood -- described as ''oldies." If over the years it ...

According to the latest Nielsen ratings for metro Los Angeles released last week, oldies-formatted KRTH (101.1 FM) dominated the city, with a 6.4 share of the audience of listeners aged six and over, ...