Editing Music radio (section)

===Easy listening===
[[Easy listening]] and [[adult contemporary]] are related formats that play largely down-tempo pop music of various styles. The difference is mostly in the era and styles covered -- [[Easy Listening]] is mostly older music done in the style of standards from the early 20th century (typical artists include [[Johnny Mathis]] and [[Frank Sinatra]]) combined with [[Big Band]] music and more modern performers in the same style such as [[Céline Dion]] and [[Josh Groban]], while [[Adult Contemporary]] focuses more on newer pop music from the 1970s on. An ancestor to the easy listening format is [[Beautiful Music]], a now-rare format (though XM features one channel of it, called Sunny) focusing mostly on smooth jazz or classical arrangements of pop music and original compositions in a similar vein.  Perhaps the best-known Adult Contemporary station currently in operation is [[WLTW]] in [[New York City]], better known as 106.7 Lite FM. [[Hot adult contemporary]] is a hybrid format that crosses adult contemporary with top-40.

[[Jazz]] stations generally play either traditional jazz forms or [[smooth jazz]]. The jazz station, more than any other except the college station, is stereotyped as having a small listenership and a somewhat overly highbrow on-air personality, and many are college-run stations. California State University Long Beach sponsors KJAZZ 88.1, which has a fairly significant online listenership as well. Two very well known smooth jazz stations are WNUA in [[Chicago]] and 94.7 The Wave in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], both of which were introduced in 1987, and still continue to enjoy tremendous success in the format today.  Also, [[WUCF-FM]] in [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]] has been playing jazz music since 1978. Both traditional and smooth jazz stations have been in severe decline, both on commercial and noncommercial stations, since the 2000s, in part because of the formats' lower profitability compared to other formats (adult contemporary for commercial stations, [[NPR]]-driven news/talk for noncommercial ones).

[[Blues]] programming is generally limited to niche programs on stations that primarily broadcast other formats. An exception to this is [[CIDG-FM]], an all-blues station based in the Canadian city of [[Ottawa]].

Dance music is a niche, and so-called "rhythmic pop" stations have had a fierce but not always commercially sustainable following. There was a wide spectrum of disco-format radio stations during the late 1970s, but virtually all of them died out during the [[disco backlash]]; [[WXKS-FM|WXKS]] in Boston is one of the few notable survivors, now a [[Clear Channel Communications]]-owned top-40 station of considerable influence. Nevertheless, there are a large number of dance music stations available both on the internet and on satellite radio, mostly specializing in various forms of [[electronica]].  Both major US satellite radio services include disco stations.