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Show prep for Top 40 / CHR stations

Top 40 / CHR radio show prep

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For You showing your show, ready by 6:00 am with 6 stories, and Swap on the first story

Top 40 / CHR

What Top 40 / CHR morning shows need

  • What’s trending right now

    The viral moment, the surprise drop, the award-show headline. A Top 40 show sounds late if it hears about it at lunch.

  • Pop stars, not just songs

    Listeners follow the artists: tours, collabs, feuds and fan moments make the best breaks.

  • Fast, tight breaks

    Short, punchy content between hits, with a hook in the first line.

How it works

How Radio Content Pro preps a Top 40 / CHR show

  1. Set your format

    Choose Top 40 / CHR on your profile and tell Ava who listens and where.

  2. Ava picks

    Every morning, For You fills with the stories that fit your show, each with a tease.

  3. In your voice

    «In my voice» writes each story the way you talk, checked against the story.

  4. Ready by your time

    Set a ready-by time and how many stories. Your show is built in running order.

Inside the app

Built for Top 40 listeners

Stories picked for Top 40 listeners

Set your format to Top 40 / CHR and For You picks for your show, not a generic feed. Not right? Press «Not for me» and pick «Not my format»; Ava learns.
  • Music news from other genres is filtered out of For You. Browse still has every story.
  • Politics, crime and other hard news are played down, unless your interests ask for news.
  • Set your market and local stories come from there.
A story page with The Story, Why it matters and Key facts

What everyone’s talking about

«Top 10 today» in Browse shows the most talkable stories of the last 24 hours, and For You picks the ones that fit your audience.
  • Written like a Top 40 host: «In my voice» uses your Character Profile.
  • «Key facts» and «Article source» keep the original story a tap away.
A story written in your voice, with «Verified against the story — ready for air.»

Ready before you are

Set a ready-by time and how many stories. Ava builds your show in running order, and can email it to you.
  • Reorder stories and add your own notes in Show Builder.
  • Copy, print or email your show.
The Show schedule card: ready by 6:00 am, days on air, 6 stories, Email it to me ticked

The format

What is the Top 40 / CHR radio format?

Top 40, or CHR (Contemporary Hit Radio), plays the biggest current hits across pop, hip hop and dance. It is the format of what’s new: the songs, the artists and the moments everyone is talking about today. Morning shows live on speed, energy and being first to the conversation.

  • CHR
  • Contemporary Hit Radio
  • Pop radio
  • Hit radio
  • Mainstream Top 40

Included

Everything else comes with it

Ask Ava

Ask Ava about Radio Content Pro for Top 40 / CHR

In the app, Ava takes any question about a story: an angle, a tease, a phone topic or a rewrite. Here, ask her how it would work on your show.
Ava Hart smiling, ready to help with your show

Ask Ava. Thinking about Radio Content Pro for your Top 40 show? Ask me.

Try it on tomorrow’s Top 40 show.

Start free. Set your format. See what Ava picks.

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Questions

Top 40 / CHR show prep questions

Is Top 40 the same as CHR here?

Yes. Set Top 40 or CHR as your format and Ava picks for that audience. Hot AC and Rhythmic have their own pages.

Can I keep it clean for a family audience?

Yes. Tell Ava in «Your notes to Ava», and skip topics for good with «Stories to skip».

Does Top 40 / CHR cost extra?

No. Radio Content Pro is $199 a month or $1,999 a year, for any format.

Can I try it first?

Yes. Start a 7-day free trial and get full access, no card needed. Pick a plan when you are ready to keep going.

I’m already a member. Does my price change?

No. Existing members keep their current rate.

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