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Yes, before the Mac was a catalog band, they were a white album and Rumours band, as you can probably guess. The Mighty Met (KMET) DJs (Jim Ladd, Mike Harrison, Mary Turner, Bob Coburn [who reported live from the 1982 US Festival], Paraquat Kelley, and so on) played the band's monster hits and album cuts. By the time Tango rolled out, that particular era on AOR radio was essentially over. The Eighties had its own AOR heroes, and the older guys still lucky enough to be on the air through the corporate buyouts and format changes stuck to playing Gold Dust Woman and Go Your Own Way, not Everywhere and Seven Wonders.
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By the time "Tango" came out, KMET changed into a Spanish station and KLOS 95.5 was the main AOR station in L.A.
I remember they played "Big Love," and "Seven Wonders," heavily when they were new, and "Isn't it Midnight," got quite a bit of airplay too, despite that song not being a single. For some reason, "Everywhere," and "Little Lies," got heavier play on the pop stations, but KLOS played them. But the first 3 songs I mentioned were in heavy rotation on KLOS.
Sigh. That was when AOR stations still played new and old music. Before Alternative Rock was split into it's own format.
I loved the days when you would hear all formats of Rock on one station.
It wasn't uncommon to hear Fleetwood Mac, Guns and Roses etc all on one station.