Bobby Bones DID NOT air in mornings on Big 95.5. It does currently air on Alpha's suburban Country stations.
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89X To Return?
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It actually did before it signed off. They began with Mason and Reed, then just Alabama before switching to Bones.
May I reference your own article? 😄
Big 95.5 Chicago Moves Bobby Bones To Mornings
As expected following to exit of morning hosts Mason & Remy in April, iHeartMedia Country "Big 95.5" WEBG Chicago is
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Completely forgot about that period.May I reference your own article? 😄
Big 95.5 Chicago Moves Bobby Bones To Mornings
As expected following to exit of morning hosts Mason & Remy in April, iHeartMedia Country "Big 95.5" WEBG Chicago is
But also Rock 95.5's existence is to give iHeart something male to sell in cluster combos that they were lacking previously. And the station is matching or outperforming Big in target demos.
Bones might not be on the Air in the Motor City but are they playing the commercials on another station? I believe all the national sponcers want is clearance.
"Ocho para las ocho" or "faltan 8 minutos para las ocho".
iHeart doesn't insist Bobby Bones get clearances in all markets. Some iHeart country stations have good local morning shows and the company leaves them on. Maybe they're clearing Bones' commercials but we don't know. In some cases, Bones airs in the evening, in other cases, the show doesn't run at all in that market. I wonder if CIMX was the only Canadian affiliate of Bones.
I always wondered about that move to switch 89X to country. Detroit already has country on 99.5 WYCD and Windsor already has country on 95.9 CJWF. That station runs at 8,000 watts while CIMX is 90,000 watts, so 88.7 has advantages over 95.9. But having three Country stations covering Windsor seems like overkill.
I always wondered about that move to switch 89X to country. Detroit already has country on 99.5 WYCD and Windsor already has country on 95.9 CJWF. That station runs at 8,000 watts while CIMX is 90,000 watts, so 88.7 has advantages over 95.9. But having three Country stations covering Windsor seems like overkill.
It isn't. Premiere has a deal with Orbyt Media for Canadian syndication.
Bobby Bones Expands Canadian Footprint.
“The Bobby Bones Show” adds two Canadian country stations to its affiliates through a partnership with Canadian syndication group Orbyt Media: Corus Radio “Country 99” CFPG-FM Winnipeg and Enanov Communications
Different owners have different agendas. They each approach the format in their own way.
After Thomas Rhett’s ‘All the Bars are Closed’, ‘IMX segued into ‘The Gambler’ and some alternative songs Johnny Cash covered (Hurt, Personal Jesus, Rusty Cage and Man Comes Around). Nice lead-in!
Intro piece mentioning The Big 8 and 89X…and it has returned with Jane’s Addiction leading it off!
Intro piece mentioning The Big 8 and 89X…and it has returned with Jane’s Addiction leading it off!
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Cash covered those songs, not the other way around.
The Cash album with those covers was released in 2002.
By the way, launching the FOURTH country station serving Detroit/ Windsor in November 2020 will go down as one of the most spectacularly STUPID moves in North American radio history.
The incumbent Windsor country station was only pulling about a 4 share in Essex County at the time.
Fun fact - I think New Country 93.1's PD at time of death was also Pure Country 89's PD at time of death.
The incumbent Windsor country station was only pulling about a 4 share in Essex County at the time.
Fun fact - I think New Country 93.1's PD at time of death was also Pure Country 89's PD at time of death.
Good catch! Fixed.
This start has been beautiful so far. I’ve long believed that if God shuts a door He will open a window. We lost WLUM but gained CIMX. If CIMX can be the same forward thinking station they were historically before 2017 (where they were kneecapped by having to obey stronger CanCon rules and subsequently having to abandon Detroit to focus on Windsor only), this will hopefully put a salve on the wound losing WLUM will leave.
WZDH will likely get vaporized by this, but that station is just a low effort copy of KVIL anyway.
So far the station has been giving CanCon a middle finger and have played more Detroit-based artists with zero Canadian presence in these opening minutes. I don’t expect that to stick for long but its clear they want to penetrate Detroit again.
WZDH will likely get vaporized by this, but that station is just a low effort copy of KVIL anyway.
So far the station has been giving CanCon a middle finger and have played more Detroit-based artists with zero Canadian presence in these opening minutes. I don’t expect that to stick for long but its clear they want to penetrate Detroit again.
This is one of the things I don't get the logic behind. This is like if NBC ran Jimmy Fallon in only most of their markets but in some of them ran a local schmo. You're just withholding those markets from the guy who has connections to the Nashville stars that hold their interest.
Bobby isn't the only DJ who has those connections. A lot of the heritage local morning hosts have the same access and do the same interviews he does.
I want 89X to focus on classics. I say that as someone who actually lives within listening range and witnessed firsthand the litany of errors from 2014 to 2020. A little bit of new music is fine but it shouldn't be the backbone.
Bell Media chose to abandon the U.S. market. The station had already been running on fumes since 2014, in large part due to poor programming decisions, which drove listeners away on both sides of the border. In the post Dave & Chuck era, they lacked a good strategy.
Final book in the Windsor market had 89X around a 2 share in 2020, almost certainly the worst performance in the brand's history. In the 00s and the first half of the 2010s, I never saw them finish lower than a 4.x share in Windsor. At times, they cracked a 6 share there.
I am eager to see how (or if) WDZH responds.
Just heard the Arkells - had to have happened sometime soon!
So far, they seem to be more gold-emphasizing. Whether or not newer music will be played remains to be seen.
EDIT: I spoke too soon. They are playing some currents/recurrents - Mumford & Sons and Noah Kahan.
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Three Days Grace, a homegrown Canadian artist who CIMX played first, have a hit building on Alternative with “Apologies”. I would expect that to be the first current if they show up.