Today's Best Hits

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Today's Best Hits
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Type Radio network
Country
Programming
Format Hot adult contemporary
Ownership
Owner Westwood One
History
Closed2014 (2014)
Former names
Best Hits, Best Variety
Coverage
AvailabilityNational; also distributed in Canada, Europe, Armed Forces Radio

Today's Best Hits was an American radio network with a Hot Adult Contemporary format. It played many contemporary songs. It also featured many retro (1980s) hits, and on Saturday night, it played only requested retro songs. The network was previously known as Best Hits, Best Variety. Today's Best Hits was a property of Cumulus Media Networks (now Westwood One).

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"Retro Radio", the first nationwide radio broadcast devoted solely to music from the 1980s, was launched on Saturday nights in 1997. The show was created and hosted by Thom "Booray" Daniels until 2000. The format was dissolved as Cumulus Media Networks merged with Westwood One, as there was already a "Hot AC" satellite-fed format provided by that network.

Sample hour of programming

On-air personalities before closure

Former on-air personalities

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