did not appeal to CHR fans because of the lack of music other than rock. Lee Abrams said the format was "too wimpy for the real rockers and too hard for the mainstream people." Most of these stations were considered in the radio trade publications to be Top 40/CHR stations rather than AOR. For a time in the mid-to-late 1980s, Cleveland's WMMS considered themselves to be a Rock 40 station. From 1989 until 1991, WAAF in Worcester–Boston, Massachusetts, considered themselves to be a Rock 40 station. The most successful Rock 40 station, however, when it came to duration with the format was KEGL The Eagle in Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas, which was mostly a rock-leaning Top 40 station from 1981 until 1992. Active rock – The modern-day mainstream rock/AOR merge. Playing artists such as Stone Temple Pilots, Nickelback, Creed, Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, and Korn. The active rock format was pioneered by the now-defunct KNAC-FM of Long Beach–Los Angeles, California, in 1986. KNAC program director/DJ Tom Marshall and music director/DJ Michael Davis had previously worked at rock station KFMG in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Active rock was also pioneered by the nationally syndicated Z Rock network, which lasted from 1986 to 1996, and expanded upon by WXTB out of Clearwater, Florida, starting in 1990. Adult album alternative (known as Triple A or AAA) – Echoed a softer AOR without hard rock or heavy metal. For a time, Seattle's KMTT even promoted "Freeform Fridays" and the Grey Pony Tail Special to highlight the halcyon days of FM radio. WXRT in Chicago is a long-running AAA station. Other Triple A stations with strong and long heritage are KINK in Portland, Oregon; KSPN-FM in Aspen, Colorado; KFMU-FM in Oak Creek–Steamboat Springs, Colorado; WNCS The Point'' in Montpelier–Burlington, VT; WMWV in Conway, New Hampshire; WDST in Woodstock, New York; WRSI in Turners Falls–Northampton, Massachusetts; WXPN in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and KBCO in Denver–Boulder, Colorado. Modern rock or alternative rock – Pioneers in this format were KROQ-FM in Los Angeles, XETRA-FM (91X) in San Diego, KTCL in Denver (but was licensed to Fort Collins in the 1970s through 1990s), the late KCGL-FM, KJQN (now Bible Broadcasting Network O&O KYFO-FM) in Ogden–Salt Lake City, Utah; and WOXY (97X) in Mason–Cincinnati, Ohio (which today broadcasts a Spanish variety format as La Mega 97.7 while keeping the WOXY calls), all of which took the AOR programming approach to music with new