The sound was uniform and universal: lush string arrangements (almost never with vocals) of popular songs and show tunes, with minimal announcements. The stations called it "beautiful music" or "easy ...

Cox Media Group thinks Jacksonville needs more easy-listening rock, so this week Easy 106.5 launched and Hot 106.5 moved. After years of playing Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye and other classic rhythm ...

A local easy-listening internet radio station went live Nov. 6. EZ-Michiana offers a format of “mainly piano and orchestral instrumentals of popular and familiar songs,” Program Director Keith Thews ...

As a format change nears for Jacksonville's Jones College stations, the new owners are advising easy listening music fans that they can easily find their favorite music elsewhere. Officials with ...

For 58 years the easy-listening music station broadcast from Jacksonville, over the city and eventually over the world. Now Jones College Radio, known in recent years as Riverton Tower Radio, has ...

Easy-listening music and its maestros never had to worry about screaming teenage fans or long stadium tours. Ridiculed in the 1960s and since as “elevator music,” the gentle genre was marketed then as ...