The 40s on 4

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40s on 4
Broadcast area	United States, Canada
First air date	2001
Frequency	XM 4
Format	1930s and 1940s Music
Class	Satellite Radio Station
Owner	XM Satellite Radio
Website	the40s.xmradio.com

The 40s on 4 (or just The 40s) is a commercial-free, satellite radio station on the XM Satellite Radio platform. It mostly plays big band and swing music from 1936 to 1949. The Station Master for the channel is Marlin Taylor and the Music Director is Bob Moke.

Similar to the other decades channels, The 40s on 4 channel recreates the feeling of the time period. They are able to do this through big band/swing music, historic newscasts, top-three track countdowns from the current week in a year from 1936-1949, World War II-era patriotic songs, and Spike Jones joke novelty recordings. They also intermittently play tracks from the 1920s to early 1930s, which they refer to as the "Record Museum." This channel is the only pure music station on XM that is broadcast strictly in mono.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Programs

• Historic Newscasts - Reporter Ed Baxter (voiced by Bill Schmalfeldt) reports on the current day's events in a year from 1936 to 1949 as if they were current events. This segment airs at 3 AM, 8 AM, 12 PM, 4 PM, 8 PM, and 11 PM (EST) every day and typically lasts around 2-3 minutes.
• Harmony Square - This is a one hour presentation of barbershop quartets, both male and female. It airs at 8PM EST on Sundays and repeats at 12 AM EST.
• Big Band Jump - This is a syndicated radio program by Don Kennedy that tells the background of big band/swing songs, as well as stories about past and current swing/big band artists. Two different shows are aired at 9PM EST on Sundays and 9PM EST on Wednesdays.

[edit] Trivia

• During Academy Award season, Bob Moke would regularly introduce and play all of the Academy-Award nominated songs for a particular year between 1936 and 1949.

[edit] External links

• XM The 40s