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Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

... We used to have a station in Chicago that played what most people would call elevator music. They were also the only station in Chicago that implemented Dolby FM noise reduction, and broadcast a calibration tone briefly every evening. They also had auxiliary programming on a (monaural) subcarrier with topics for doctors, sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.

In New York City in the 60's we had about 3 or more "beautiful music" stations on FM, WPAT, WRFM, WTFM, and I think WVNJ. They probably had different flavors of this music, but it sounded the same to a kid wanting rock and roll. There's lots of elevators in NYC

I think it was WEVD that had an SCA subcarrier "Physicians Radio Network" that IIRC had spots similar to those drug commercials we see on TV nowadays. "See your copy of "Physicians Radio Network Journal" for the disclaimers and side effects that include death".

WNCN, today a classic rock station, was a classical music station that also broadcast a brief calibration tone.

I especially remember what they did with the Beatles' tunes.

You can find those covers on youtube...