Documenting the history of radio in Dallas & Fort Worth
NOW WITH A FULL FORTY YEARS OF ARBITRON RADIO RATINGS FOR DALLAS/FORT WORTH

              NEW!!!!
DFW Radio Archives unearths ratings from over 60 years ago!! 
Dallas radio ratings from the 1930's and 40's - exclusively on DFWRadioArchives.com!!
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         1920 - 1965
THE BIRTH AND EVOLUTION OF RADIO IN NORTH TEXAS
A year-by-year chronological look at the birth and evolution of radio stations in Dallas and Fort Worth.

    Origins - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s
  
                  Crossley Ratings - 1935-1946
                     Hooper Ratings - 1958-59

 

                 1966 - now
             YEAR-BY-YEAR  R
ATINGS HISTORIES

Click on a year to see a brief summary of that year's radio highlights.  Additionally, all of that year's Arbitron listening surveys are listed showing the top ten stations.  
(From 1966 to 1973 Arbitron measured Dallas and Fort Worth separately. Only the top 5 stations during those years.)  
        1966 - 1967 - 1968 - 1969
        1970 - 1971 - 1972 - 1973 - 1974 - 1975 - 1976 - 1977 - 1978 - 1979
        1980 - 1981 - 1982 - 1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986 - 1987 - 1988 - 1989
        1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999
        2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 -
2006 - 2007

 

 

 


 

 

 




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