Anecdotal evidence suggest that racism was a key factor — in his book on the history of Australian radio, author and broadcaster Wayne Mac recounts that when a local Melbourne DJ of the 1960s played the new Ike and Tina Turner single " River Deep Mountain High " it was immediately pulled from the playlist by the station's program manager for being " too noisy and too black ".

BBC Radio 1 also refused to playlist the single " All I Ever Wanted " because, now in their 40s, the band did not match the radio station's demographic target audience.

He was impressed and added it to the station's playlist.

The first single, " The Very First Time ", debuted on BBC Radio 2 in January, was added to the station's " A " playlist for the week beginning 29 March and was released as a music download track on 1 April.

The band became involved in an acrimonious dispute with Radio 1 after the station refused to include the " Fun Fun Fun " single on the radio station's playlist.

In the station's early years, the station's playlist was very similar to that of CHUM-FM in Toronto, but with a less rhythmic lean.

As a result, the station's format obligations dictate a different playlist to that of the other members of the Touch network, but nonetheless the station now has a more adult sound than that prior to CN ownership.

The station's playlist includes popular Arabic ( Middle Eastern ), English ( mostly American hits ) and Spanish ( mostly Latin American ) songs so as to attract the Arabic listener.

He liked " Music Box Dancer " and added it to his station's playlist, turning the record into a Canadian hit.

As with most remaining classical music stations in the U. S., the station's playlist has changed over the years to focus on shorter and more easily assimilated pieces and away from long pieces and most vocal music including opera.

By the Fall of 2002, certain classic artists, such as Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, and Ozzy Osbourne, were added back in the station's playlist rotation.

The radio station's music director, Tony Windsor, later recalled in an interview that he had initially rejected the song for the station's playlist, but was persuaded to change his mind by DJ Kenny Everett.

The station's controller, Matthew Bannister, however denied that the failure to include the song was a ban, but merely meant that the song had not been included on the playlist of each week's 60 most regularly featured songs.

A second DJ-less channel, KRTH-HD2, features the 1955-1964 songs which have been removed from the main station's playlist and is branded as " K-Earth Classics on K-Earth HD2 ".

Once the concert went on, however, the audience's enthusiasm paved the way for WHFS to include more artists from outside the station's normal playlist on the HFStival's stages — which would, in future years, include more hip hop acts, electronica artists, and such disparate musicians as crooner Tony Bennett and performance artists the Blue Man Group.

In recent years, the station's format has gradually drifted towards classic rock with current releases rarely incorporated into the playlist, though some recent songs such as Ozzy Osbourne's 2007 hit I Don't Wanna Stop are played on the station ( Osbourne himself is a fixture on many classic rock stations ).

Today, the station's playlist consists of primarily Pop / Top 40 music.

After the relaunch in 2006, the station's playlist includes mainly modern and active rock artists, such as Alanis Morissette, Evanescence, No Doubt, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Green Day, as well as pop rock acts such as Kelly Clarkson, Christina Perri, Paramore, Neon Trees, and Avril Lavigne.

During the station's modern rock run, the playlist became more and more adventurous.

The station's playlist consisted of music almost entirely from 1964 to 1979, dividing about equally between the 1960s and 1970s, playing only a handful of pre-1964 oldies and songs from the 1980s.

Formerly, American Top 40 with Ryan Seacrest was aired on Sunday mornings, but was dropped with the station's shift in direction towards a modern rock-based playlist in 2005 ( WKKF would later pick it up ).

WQCD also ran an experiment from November 22, 2004 until August 2005, when the station's playlist included chill music, a form of relaxing music based on the music found in the beaches of Ibiza.

For commercial broadcasting, airplay is usually the result of being placed into rotation, also called adding it to the station's playlist by the music director, possibly as the result of a Pay for Play sponsored by the record label.

Its navigation system, made up of the Delta semi-automatic computer to depict the station's orbit and the Kaskad system to control its orientation, was based on that used on Salyut 4, as was its power system, which consisted of a trio of steerable solar panels together producing a peak of 4 kilowatts of power over 51 m².

For the remainder of Group W's ownership, the station's only remaining local news programming consisted of a half-hour broadcast at noon, hourly cut-ins, five-minute local inserts during the Today show, a weekly magazine program and occasional specials.

Its first equipment consisted of an RCA Victor TT10AL Television Transmitter and a 196 foot 6-section Super Turnstile Type TF-6AM Television Antenna, located atop the station's roof.

The music played at the station was phased out during the 1980s, and by 1990, the station's lineup mainly consisted of talk shows.

In November, the station loaned $ 350, 000 to Maharishi International University in Iowa. As of June 1986 the station's content consisted of " a hodgepodge of programming in 14 languages " that was broadcast on both cable and UHF in Southern California.

During the station's early years until 1976, CBUT's station IDs consisted of slides of local Vancouver landmarks with the CBUT logo ( the number 2 in Clarendon Bold typeface, contained within a stylized TV screen ) added, with the announcement " This is CBUT, Channel 2 in Vancouver ", while the ID slide used at the end of local programs on CBUT was a larger version of the station logo on a navy blue background with the announcement " This is CBC Television, Vancouver ".

At the time, the CBKST logo consisted of the name Saskatoon with the station's channel numbers contained within the O's.

In November, the station loaned $ 350, 000 to Maharishi International University in Iowa. As of June 1986 the station's content consisted of " a hodgepodge of programming in 14 languages " that was broadcast on both cable or UHF in Southern California ".

By the end of 1994, the majority of the station's music consisted of alternative rock with only a few non-modern-rock-based songs per hour.

The music consisted of Christmas songs by the station's core artists mixed with well-known Christmas music by oldies artists and some traditional easy listening type artists.

The test broadcasts consisted of two people ( possibly the station's founders ) playing music and talking in between tracks.

The original DJ lineup on 105 KITS consisted of program director Jeff Hunter 6 – 9am, followed by Doug Ritter 9am – 12pm, Gary Robbins 12 – 3pm, Todd Parker 3 – 7pm, Richard Sands 7 – midnight, and Rick Neal ( George Fryer ) midnight – 6am, Mark Van Gelder was 105 KITS first Production Director, Annette Parks ( daughter of pioneer broadcaster and Miss America Pageant Host Bert Parks ) was the station's news director, and Michele Meisner ( formerly of San Francisco's Fantasy Studios ) was music director.

A large part of the station's output consisted of the retransmission of material from the nine regional broadcasting companies which had been established in the previous three years ; within this framework Deutsche Welle attempted to emphasize educational programming for a nationwide audience.

WRCM's first staff consisted of full-timers Ken Mayfield, the station's first general manager and afternoon personality, program director and morning host, Rodney Baucom and Karen Wycoff who served as mid-day announcer and secretary.

The station's broadcast schedule consisted of older cartoons, sitcoms, and family dramas, though the new station briefly ran a few preempted CBS shows from WHDH-TV.

At this time, the station's music library consisted of 400 records.

Additionally, the station's public inspection file consisted of only a few letters from the public.

During most of the 2000s ( decade ), the station's programming mostly consisted of music videos until it became an affiliate of Spanish Broadcasting System's Mega TV on August 25, 2008.

The station's programming consisted of drama shows, movies, first-run syndicated shows, and sitcoms, but no cartoons.