Wyoming True Country finds a home in Laramie…

[SomeRadioGuy]

Friday May 1st New Country 96.7 Laramie becomes “True Country 96-7”

We segue from the hottest country hits to the country superstars of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s.

The music change has been in progress for 3 weeks and will continue.

We’ll debuting an all new line up of shows in a few weeks. Two syndicated shows and a local show. This is an upgrade from just a morning show and music the rest of the day.

We know people want more real country than that pop stuff and that’s what we’re bringing them… with real local flavor… from the logo being the colors of our country flag, to liners that espouse local traditions and more.

THIS is the big project I’ve been working on, slowly and will continue to work on

Shawn Faxon has done and will continue to do the smart stuff and heavy lifting.. like automation and tech stuff. I’ll be doing and continue to do imaging, music stuff, news and other stuff.

Oh yes, you have heard some Christmas tunes on 96.7 this week interspersed with the regular country. It was a happy accident that happened and we just ran it up to this name change.

 

[KilowattKat]

Those are great call letters for a Country station...KHAT. They once belonged to a legendary Country station in Phoenix, during the 50's and 60's on 1480 AM, that was owned by Ray Odom. Why not brand as K-HAT? It's a much more memorable name than True Country. I am seeing less Country stations resort to this type of bland branding, nowadays.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

Those are great call letters for a Country station...KHAT. They once belonged to a legendary Country station in Phoenix, during the 50's and 60's on 1480 AM, that was owned by Ray Odom. Why not brand as K-HAT? It's a much more memorable name than True Country. I am seeing less Country stations resort to this type of bland branding, nowadays.

K-HAT doesnt tell listeners who or what you are.. True country does

 

[KilowattKat]

K-HAT doesnt tell listeners who or what you are.. True country does

But your slogan does, I'm talking about the name. Anyways, is Y95 locally staffed? The website claims every one is local in Laramie. I was under the impression that Townsquare small town Country stations were voice tracked. From the DJ page...

At Townsquare Media Laramie, we do our best to support our local community in the most impactful ways possible. All of the content creators you see below live, work and play in the same places as you and your families -- and we know that what happens right here matters to you most. We hope you find that our original local content (found on our website and free mobile app) informs and entertains you as much as we enjoy creating it. Get to know each of us a little more by checking out our "behind the byline" facts below:

Y95 Country – Southeast Wyoming's #1 For New Country

Y95 Country, KCGY-FM Radio, a Townsquare Media station, Covering Laramie To Cheyenne, we are Southeast Wyoming's Number 1 for new country!

y95country.com

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

But your slogan does, I'm talking about the name. Anyways, is Y95 locally staffed? The website claims every one is local in Laramie. I was under the impression that Townsquare small town Country stations were voice tracked. From the DJ page...

At Townsquare Media Laramie, we do our best to support our local community in the most impactful ways possible. All of the content creators you see below live, work and play in the same places as you and your families -- and we know that what happens right here matters to you most. We hope you find that our original local content (found on our website and free mobile app) informs and entertains you as much as we enjoy creating it. Get to know each of us a little more by checking out our "behind the byline" facts below:

Y95 Country – Southeast Wyoming's #1 For New Country

Y95 Country, KCGY-FM Radio, a Townsquare Media station, Covering Laramie To Cheyenne, we are Southeast Wyoming's Number 1 for new country!

y95country.com

Y95 is based in cheyenne. theres one news/sports guy in laramie and thats it, as far as im aware, and hes for KOWB. Last i knew, no one on Y95 is based in cheyenne either.

To be fair, we're not trying to claim all of our staff is live or local.. notice, we dont say that

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

But your slogan does, I'm talking about the name. Anyways, is Y95 locally staffed? The website claims every one is local in Laramie. I was under the impression that Townsquare small town Country stations were voice tracked. From the DJ page...

At Townsquare Media Laramie, we do our best to support our local community in the most impactful ways possible. All of the content creators you see below live, work and play in the same places as you and your families -- and we know that what happens right here matters to you most. We hope you find that our original local content (found on our website and free mobile app) informs and entertains you as much as we enjoy creating it. Get to know each of us a little more by checking out our "behind the byline" facts below:

Y95 Country – Southeast Wyoming's #1 For New Country

Y95 Country, KCGY-FM Radio, a Townsquare Media station, Covering Laramie To Cheyenne, we are Southeast Wyoming's Number 1 for new country!

y95country.com

BTW, we dont really have a slogan.. boss didnt want one.. we both kinda agreed they are tired and over used. We'll set ourselves apart not in what we call ourselves but in what we say and what we do. He wanted a name that didnt time him to one segment of country music. We didnt stunt accept accidenyally playing a few Christmas tunes a day for a few days before the name change.

We're keeping it kind of simple with the entire thought in mind, "What does this do for the listeners or mean to them?" when we ask ourselves about something we do with this radio station. Our logo is in the colors of our county flag, were responding to overall community conversation about having two hot stations in the area but no station playing "that real country music stuff". Laramie isnt a news desert but not entirely far off .. Y95 does a bit.. but no tv station covers us, we have one newspaper.

 

[KilowattKat]

BTW, we dont really have a slogan.. boss didnt want one.. we both kinda agreed they are tired and over used. We'll set ourselves apart not in what we call ourselves but in what we say and what we do. He wanted a name that didnt time him to one segment of country music. We didnt stunt accept accidenyally playing a few Christmas tunes a day for a few days before the name change.

We're keeping it kind of simple with the entire thought in mind, "What does this do for the listeners or mean to them?" when we ask ourselves about something we do with this radio station. Our logo is in the colors of our county flag, were responding to overall community conversation about having two hot stations in the area but no station playing "that real country music stuff". Laramie isnt a news desert but not entirely far off .. Y95 does a bit.. but no tv station covers us, we have one newspaper.

Something I just thought of ..the KHAT calls are on the AM. So, yeah, if the AM goes away, so would the calls. Have you considered using an HD subchannel to feed 96.7? How's it going with finding a permanent site for the AM?

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

Something I just thought of ..the KHAT calls are on the AM. So, yeah, if the AM goes away, so would the calls. Have you considered using an HD subchannel to feed 96.7? How's it going with finding a permanent site for the AM?

We'd probably still ocasuionally call it KHAT, like at top of hour .. saying "True country 96-7 KHAT Laramie and KRQU HD-2 Laramie"

We are investigating all possible solutions to keeping 96.7 going in the future... wee have quotes for HD gear which we'd put on our 110W Class A.... HD from 104,.5 wouldnt reach cheyenne reliably so it isnt worth the expense and 11 Watts at 1000 feet on 98.7 would be fine.

thats if we dont find a solution to keep the AM going