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Oct 30, 2026

DarnellPANELIST
34:05
And we tried it.
DarnellPANELIST
34:05
We tried AAA here.
DarnellPANELIST
34:06
It didn't work.
DarnellPANELIST
34:09
It didn't work here.
Mike HsuGUEST
55:29
So I was working at what could have been called an early alternative station.
Mike HsuGUEST
55:33
It was AAA.
Mike HsuGUEST
55:35
So it was a little more mellow, but we were more experimental.
Mike HsuGUEST
55:38
And I was bringing in the stuff that was coming out of Seattle and some of the alternative stuff.
Bruce CockburnGUEST
45:50
I think part of it, I mean, if I had a rocket launcher, I wonder where the lines are.
Bruce CockburnGUEST
45:56
And to some extent, Last Night in the World got a fair amount of radio play in the U.S. on what the AAA format was sort of a thing.
Bruce CockburnGUEST
46:07
And it hasn't been now for quite a while, so my stuff doesn't show up very much, except on TV stations very occasionally.
Bruce CockburnGUEST
46:15
But...
speaker_1ADVERTISER
18:18
three times platinum here in the U.S.
Adam ReaderHOST
18:20
The album's 1997 hit Criminal reached number 21 on the Hot 100 and also number two on the Adult Alternative chart.
Adam ReaderHOST
18:26
The song explores themes of guilt, sexual empowerment, and manipulation as Fiona confesses to taking advantage of a lover's devotion.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
18:33
Just don't know where I can begin
Adam ReaderHOST
18:55
Any Fiona fans out there, let me know in the comments.
Adam ReaderHOST
18:57
I definitely was.
Adam ReaderHOST
18:58
Both of these songs did well on the Adult Alternative Airplay chart, and it wasn't long before people began comparing Fiona to Alanis Morissette.
Adam ReaderHOST
19:06
Everything was pointing towards superstar status, but the 19-year-old Fiona wanted nothing to do with that.
Jeff BennettHOST
28:28
KXL-FM with a News Talk format as well.
Jeff BennettHOST
28:30
KINK-FM with an Adult Album Alternative format.
Jeff BennettHOST
28:33
And finally, KKCW-FM with an Adult Contemporary format.
Jeff BennettHOST
28:37
In San Antonio, Texas, the number one ranked radio station is KONO-FM with a classicist format, followed by KTKX-FM with a classic rock format, KCYY-FM with a country format, KSMG-FM with a hot adult contemporary format, and finally KHA-FM with a country format.
DriftglassGUEST
52:21
I got to
Nicole SandlerHOST
52:22
go... to Boulder, Colorado, every summer for a few years when I was doing music radio, we would have like, it was like summer camp, the AAA Summit, it was called.
Nicole SandlerHOST
52:34
And the format that I worked in AAA stood for Adult Album Alternative.
Nicole SandlerHOST
52:40
And it was a very eclectic format.
Nicole SandlerHOST
52:43
And we would have our summer convention in Boulder, Colorado, where amazing bands would play at the Fox Theater.
Viktor WiltHOST
37:06
So pathetic.
Viktor WiltHOST
37:07
And that article I was talking about from earlier was about how the AAA stations have this cool factor and the alternative stations can't figure out why they can't get the cool factor going on.
Viktor WiltHOST
37:21
And I think it's just because they're lost as a format.
Viktor WiltHOST
37:24
And so he's like, yeah, we're playing all these.
Bruce CockburnGUEST
3:52
But in terms of radio and that kind of attention, it kind of peaked in the late 80s, I would, and then into the 90s.
Bruce CockburnGUEST
4:00
As long as there was a with the AAA format on radio was very good to me in the US.
Bruce CockburnGUEST
4:06
Canadian radio was always kind of in the picture to some extent with the kind of departure from the scene of the AAA format.
Bruce CockburnGUEST
4:15
My records don't see the light of day on radio much these days, but I mean, they do on the CBC in Canada, but otherwise quite a bit more limited than it used to be.
Bruce CockburnGUEST
4:26
But, you know, I'm still doing a lot of shows and I'm, people are coming out to them so that side of things continues in a very healthy way
Bruce CockburnGUEST
3:52
But in terms of radio and that kind of attention, it kind of peaked in the late 80s, I would, and then into the 90s.
Bruce CockburnGUEST
4:00
As long as there was a with the AAA format on radio was very good to me in the US.
Bruce CockburnGUEST
4:06
Canadian radio was always kind of in the picture to some extent with the kind of departure from the scene of the AAA format.
Bruce CockburnGUEST
4:15
My records don't see the light of day on radio much these days, but I mean, they do on the CBC in Canada, but otherwise quite a bit more limited than it used to be.
Bruce CockburnGUEST
4:26
But, you know, I'm still doing a lot of shows and I'm, people are coming out to them so that side of things continues in a very healthy way
Ken HopkinsPANELIST
10:10
Why?
Molly AllenHOST
10:10
It's, I think sometimes you get this like, "Nope, you're Americana, you go on the AAA stations."
Ken HopkinsPANELIST
10:14
Why?
Molly AllenHOST
10:14
"You're never gonna be Top 40-

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