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Changes in Radio 2012
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After having 13 years of three almost identical country FMs it's TIME one of them change their format. I know Nashville has often had three top-40 or rock stations, each a little different..but come on...we DON'T need THREE cornball country stations. Now WSM-FM will never change their format since they "beat out " the other two in the last arbitron report. I don't care if it's hot a/c, talk, alternative, a new a/c that plays songs that Mix 92-9 ..just something different than "nare-nare" ,boot-stompin' , hee-haw depressing country crap.
roadrunner said:
I feel the same way, but don't see it happening. KDF would be the logical choice, but has had good momentum in the last 2 years. I have a feeling that momentum is gonna be lost without Jack Shell and with the morning show, who was great on 94.7, doing nothing but teasing listeners to "stay tuned to find out" and having WAY too many commercials. I can see KDF going younger and WSM going older country. I'd like to see some change because ~24 to ~35 year-olds (including myself) have no "pop" or "hits" music station in Nashville. 92.9 is getting better, but needs to lay off the women-only airchecks and slow, sappy songs. I actually heard David Guetta on there the other day, which was refreshing. 107 and 106 are geared too much for teen girls and Jack might as well be a classic rock station. With all the college graduates moving to Nashville for school, and staying after for a career; we need a radio station!
I've given up on non-country nashville radio and listen to KKPK http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=kkpk&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.929peakfm.com%2F&ei=DxYRT4fZHdLbtwflz92AAg&usg=AFQjCNHGbvt4jDHVs1xXsmYxhn6_lvGKWw&cad=rja all day now at work. No reason Cumulus can't have this format here.
I'm only 24, but despite having 3 FM country stations, if 650 had an FM translator I'd listen to them quite a bit. I like the variety in music they play, including old Elvis tunes. I just can't stand the AM quality. AM died before I was born.
roadrunner said:
That's the funniest post I've seen here in a while.
Hey! Wake up! You live in bloody NASHVILLE, buddy. You're lucky ALL the stations don't play that "nare nare" stuff. It's where they make it, for God's sake.
You probably go to Italy and complain that all the food has marinara sauce on it. Go to Detroit and complain about all those damned car companies stinkin' up the place.
You must be the same guy who can't understand why DC has so many news stations.
TheBigA said:
Don't tell me to "wake up"! I'm not a complainer. I just think TWO is enough ...(not to mention two powerful rimshots) compared to a lot of cities who only have ONE and btw I think it's ludicrous that NYC has ZERO. And I never said a word about DC .... I just think 3 is overkill for any format, including top 40 or rock. So I'm not a big country fan. So what.
roadrunner said:
You picked the wrong city to live in, dude. It's the friggin' country music capital of the world. You say the word "Nashville" to people anywhere in the world, and they think of "nare-nare," hee-haw, and boot stompin' crap. Most people are shocked when you tell them there's other music there.
Haven't ever liked mainstream country and I've called Nashville home for years now. Get along with the "nare-nares" just fine, only tune in enough of their music to know what's going on. However, I love alt country, and of course some of that gets recorded here too. I'd love a real alt country station, just not holdin' my breath we'd get one here. The smattering of alt country tunes on Lightning or the few that popped up on 650 just isn't enough. The Little Willies released last week a fantastic new album that iTunes labels "country", but you'll never hear it on country radio. Pity.
TheBigA said:
When I moved there in the late 60's, Nashville only had a single fulltime country station and it wasn't even licensed to Nashville: Cal Young's WENO was in Madison, complete with a ranch. WSM, aside from the Opry, relegated country to overnights with Ralph Emery and early morning with Flatt and Scruggs. WKDA, where I later worked, was still top 40.
There was some surprise when WSM (AM) finally went all country in the late 70's. Likewise SM95 went country in 1982, generating some surprise since it was still doing pretty well in the 25-54 demo.
There was a time decades ago when some of the leading families and the bluebloods resented the country image that Nashville acquired. They were proud of Vanderbilt, the Hermitage and the "Athens of the South" reputation but didn't much care for trappings of country music.
One isolated incident comes to mind when I was having a late Saturday lunch at the Cain-Sloan restaurant, overlooking the Ryman. The Opry crowd has already started forming on the streets below. A table nearly with several Brahmins looked out the window and haughtily (and loudly) pronounced: I do wish they would move that thing to Knoxville.
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Bob E. Nelson said:There was a time decades ago when some of the leading families and the bluebloods resented the country image that Nashville acquired. They were proud of Vanderbilt, the Hermitage and the "Athens of the South" reputation but didn't much care for trappings of country music.
One isolated incident comes to mind when I was having a late Saturday lunch at the Cain-Sloan restaurant, overlooking the Ryman. The Opry crowd has already started forming on the streets below. A table nearly with several Brahmins looked out the window and haughtily (and loudly) pronounced: I do wish they would move that thing to Knoxville.
LOL & Priceless, Bob. Every time I hear people wonder why there are more UT fans than Vandy fans at a UT-Vandy football game played in Nashville, I always remind them how much the Vanderbilt crowd is embarrassed over Nashville being County Music USA, and then explain that they look down their noses at football just as much as they do country music.
That is stereotyping at its very worst. Besides, everyone knows that what gets played on "country" radio is not really "country" anymore. That probably explains why half of it crosses over to 92.9! :TheBigA said:
Ironically, the Opry eventually moved east, but not that far east, when they relocated to the Opry house in '74. Ironically, Cain-Sloan itself is no longer here. That location (downtown) is probably the one that was dynamited to make room for a parking lot a couple of years after I first moved here.Bob E. Nelson said:One isolated incident comes to mind when I was having a late Saturday lunch at the Cain-Sloan restaurant, overlooking the Ryman. The Opry crowd has already started forming on the streets below. A table nearly with several Brahmins looked out the window and haughtily (and loudly) pronounced: I do wish they would move that thing to Knoxville.
firepoint525 said:That probably explains why half of it crosses over to 92.9! :
So instead of four country stations in Nashville, there actually are five.
Then again, back in the 60s, you could hear Roger Miller, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Marty Robbins, and Merle Haggard on the pop stations.
jetfli said:
The real reason there would be more UT fans than Vandy fans at a UT-Vandy game in Nashville has a lot to do with the fact that Vandy's team was, until very recently, atrocious.
Perhaps Waylon Jennings would not have been the ideal Nashville ambassador, but Taylor Swift, Lady A, and other pop-country acts have been very well embraced by the "Vanderbilt crowd".
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