The Birth of Top 40 Radio: The Storz Stations’ Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s

＂＂Top 40＂ was the pre-eminent American radio format of the 1950s and 1960s. The AM stations owned by Todd Storz and his father were principle developers of Top 40 radio. There are quotations from the memoirs of several founders of the format; four of this volume’s five principal writers were managers or program directors at Storz stations＂--