The Double-Wide Radio Station

The Double-Wide Radio Station

The wildly successful Adult Hits stations of the early ’00s — many of them still so — sometimes told listeners that they played “everything.” To the industry, however, they described themselves as “a mile wide and an inch deep.” They mostly combined the best of an Oldies/Classic Hits station and the list of a Hot AC. Any “oh wow” depth came mainly from the late ’70s and ’80s. Adult Hits stations were nevertheless wide enough to redefine what rad…