# Active rock

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'''Active rock''' is a [radio format](/source/radio_format) used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada. Active rock stations play a balance of new [hard rock](/source/hard_rock) songs with valued [classic rock](/source/classic_rock) favorites, normally with an emphasis on the harder edge of [mainstream rock](/source/mainstream_rock) and [album-oriented rock](/source/album-oriented_rock).<ref>[http://www.radioinfo.com/2012/08/19/the-state-of-rock-radio-2/ "The State of Rock Radio – Part One"]. ''RadioInfo'', August 19, 2012.</ref>

==Format background==
There is no concrete definition of the active rock format. Sean Ross, editor of ''[Airplay Monitor](/source/Airplay_Monitor)'', described active rock in the late 1990s as [album-oriented rock](/source/album-oriented_rock) (AOR) "with a greater emphasis on the harder end of the spectrum".<ref>Toby Eddings, "Active rock finds an Asylum at 93.5", ''The Sun News'', February 7, 1999</ref> ''[Radio & Records](/source/Radio_%26_Records)'' defined the format as based on current rock hits in frequent rotation and targeted to males ages 18–34, akin to the approach of [contemporary hit radio](/source/contemporary_hit_radio) (CHR) stations.<ref name="RR 1999-02-12">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-RandR-IDX/IDX/90s/99/RR-1999-02-12-OCR-Page-0086.pdf |last=Maxwell |first=Cyndee |title=How To Define An Active Rocker... |magazine=Radio & Records |page=84 |date=February 12, 1999 |access-date=July 4, 2018 }}</ref>

An active rock station may include songs by classic [hard rock](/source/hard_rock) artists whereas a [modern rock](/source/modern_rock) or alternative station would not. Additionally, an active rock station will play a very popular demand in rotation of new hard rock and [heavy metal](/source/heavy_metal_music) artists as well as hard rock and heavy metal artists from the mid-1990s and throughout the 2000s. Usually an active rock station will play predominantly newer artists and songs, while other stations will play a balance of classic and new hard rock as close to home as possible to mainstream rock without overlapping the format.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.americasmusiccharts.com/index.cgi?fmt=R2 Current Active Rock chart as reported by Mediabase]

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Category:Rock radio formats

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