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Country on the Cape

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MoLarryMoLarry

I'm thinking the last time there was a country station down there was the early 90's??

today Cape 104 flipped to Cape Country. Sounds pretty tight, too.
 
Maybe it makes 'cents' and dollars too. There's been alot of surveys about Country
in the RI - Mass area. Maybe this is the result.
 
Wow... what an interesting turn of events! I'm streaming it online right now and it sounds GREAT!

'CTK always did huge numbers on the Cape with that New Bedford signal... you could pretty much get it loud and clear to Chatham. Though I'm not sure if CTK ever sold spots to advertisers on the Cape. If so, this is a problem for them... if not - oh well.

Cape radio is reasonably blah... though I always thought 'COD was a decent sounding Hot AC. This is certainly a good move! I would say this will take some female numbers from COD and the Rose.
 
MoLarryMoLarry said:
I'm thinking the last time there was a country station down there was the early 90's??

today Cape 104 flipped to Cape Country. Sounds pretty tight, too.
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I believe the moniker was "Thunder 102" - at 101.9FM.

Does anyone have the first hour's playlist? I'm hoping they led off with Alan Jackson's "Gone Country". When I segued from WSYN (Classic Hits) to WYAK (Country) in Myrtle Beach, the PD manually scheduled that song for me to bust my chops (as I'd been a rock/classic hits jock for most of my radio career).
 
I think CTK may sell spots past New Bedford but not all the way to the cape. I saw something on the Boston Board about hearing a 70's Mac Davis song on Cape Country. Now it remains to be seen in Cape Cod country listeners are loyal enough to CTK or just want their country wherever they can find it. The new station needs to do more than just play the music or they will be nothing more than a country jokebox with nothing else to offer.
 
Cape 104 could have split the Rose and WCOD,WQRC, seeing as they are getting hotter all the time. If they had put a little effort into it. a good jingle package, and a little more focus etc..and someone who has a clue when it comes to CHR. I have a feeling country will bomb too..whats next?
 
Hmmmm... MassRadio... sounds like you were either let go from Cape 104 or never hired but wanted to be.

Care to share?

And the market isn't really big enough for a Hot AC, a Hotter AC and a CHR. It's the Cape... not New York.
 
I agree with Massradio. Was Cape 104 even on for a year? What will 103.9 be this time next year? Oh, right: "Sportsradio 103.9 'WCEI'."
 
listening right now on line.....

I would love to hear a oldies country show on the cape, maybe they can pick up ron dwyer for it, that man knows old country.....
 
Depends on what you consider country oldies. To fill an entire show you'd have to go pretty far back. There's a country station in Concord, NH that uses that line about "the legends" but when I hear them, those "legends" are mainly crossover artists like Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Waylon, Willie, Johnny Cash, Charlie Rich, Crystal Gayle, etc. It's all familiar stuff. Just because an audience likes Rascal Flatts & Taylor Swift doesn't mean they'll sit through Mickey Gilley & Dottie West. I would, but any country station has to be cautious with country gold.
 
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