930 KHJ - Top 40? | November 15, 1949 (9:01) Scoped
I ran across this and quite frankly, I’m amazed. I’ll call this the very first example of a Top 40 format anywhere in the country.
I suspect that this was merely a program during the station’s broadcast day, not an entire format - in 1949 radio was much different.
What you’ll hear is a scoped version of a music program featuring artists of the day like Vaugn Monroe and other Big Band/Standards-type songs with were the popular music of the day. It’s a LOCAL program from 930 KHJ - some 15 years before “Boss Radio” was launched.
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This was “Club 930″, a 1-1/2 hour isolated musical program, sort of a local version of “Your Hit Parade” that began in the late-30s and ran for many years. Top 40 as a fulltime, non-stop format broadcast during the entire time the staion was on-the-air was first established at KOWH in Omaha, Nebraska at about this same time, coincidentally.