Are they going to play more 80’s country?
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- Thread starter neosolbrudda
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Honestly not sure
One of our local country stations has a "Legends Lunch" half-hour every weekday at noon. It's pretty much evenly split between '80s and '90s country, although they will dip back into the '70s for songs like Wille Nelson's "On the Road Again." Most of the time, though, the "legends" that get played are people like Trisha Yearwood and Clint Black. There's a slot or two every hour set aside for gold, but that's usually a song from the late '90s or early '00s.
I hate to say it, but "Classic" has evolved. Example: KLUV. They are a Classic Hits station that plays mostly 80's and 70's here and there. If you're in your 40's or 50's, the music you grew up is now considered "Classics".
I would guess no. The core seems to be 90s and 00s.
Why are they playing The Judds, Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson, Alabama, Eddie Rabbitt etc? Sounds like 80’s country music to me.
Right now, they seem to be doing all Texas, regardless or era or genre.
But before 6PM, they did one 80s song every other hour. So as I said, the core appears to be 90s and 00s.
"The core" does not equate to "all." A format with '90s and '00s at its core could very well have some '80s and '10s tracks in the library. George Strait fans want to hear "Amarillo by Morning" as well as "Write This Down." Carrie Underwood fans like "Good Girl" as well as "Jesus Take the Wheel."
I listened for a few minutes the other night and only heard 2010s 100%.
How many minutes? How many songs? Listen for three hours, at least, and then report back. The percentages should begin to even out, unless the PD lied in the interview with Country Aircheck.
Those figures are from Mediabase monitored airplay for the period of 6a-Midnight on March 17.
KPLX is still airing Lia from Midnight to 5a which plays mostly currents and recurrents.
Not long, but long enough to know that if those percentages were true, it would have been apparent. I know a little something about music rotations.
"Report back" LOL
So what does Preston have to gain by lying to an internet media outlet that focuses on country radio?
BTW, I'm just completing my 10th minute of listening. So far I've heard "Indian Outlaw" ('90s), "It Goes Like This" ('10s), and "Beautiful Mess" ('00s). It's "apparent" to me that KPLX is doing just what its PD says it's doing.
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Still listening to KPLX, same pattern of '90s,'00s and '10s after nearly an hour. This is a good-sounding station. The '90s titles they're playing fit well with the later material and I'm hearing quite a few songs by core artists (Travis Tritt, Brooks and Dunn, Dierks Bentley, etc.) that most current-based country stations aren't using in their limited gold libraries.
That's true. The same publication I referenced earlier, Country Aircheck, compared the playlist of KPLX with co-owned currents-based station KSCS, and showed the breakdown this way:
2020s: 64%
2010s: 31.6%
2000s: 4.3%
1990s: 0%
So you can see there's a big hole for KPLX with its new music policy.
KSCS sounds like 92.9 the Bull (KDBL) over here in Yakima, WA. Who's Garth Brooks? Travis Tritt? Trisha Yearwood? Alan Jackson? Seriously, to the playlist you'd think none of those artists even exist. There's hardly a song that was recorded before 2005. Thank goodness for classic country stations that keep that era alive and well.
I listened for about three hours on Saturday, albeit no more than about an hour consecutively. The newest song I heard was about three years old (Jon Pardi “Heartache Medication”), and I believe the oldest I heard was “Neon Moon” (1992). I'd estimate about 75% of what I heard was popular between 1997 and 2012.
That's what I'm hearing today. One '80s song -- "Amarillo By Morning" -- and four early '90s hits (two by Garth Brooks, one by Tim McGraw, one by Brooks and Dunn), along with a couple of songs from the mid-'10s. The rest fit your parameters. Another thing I've noticed: only one song by a female artist (Carrie Underwood) in nearly two hours. Must be what Texans want from a country station. Also, two concerts are being advertised: Morgan Wallen and Willie Nelson. Are either even played on this station?
Heard Restless Heart “And She Cries” today
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