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if 96.5 goes country this is the route they will take

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Gunsmoke

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It might not be a big IF, because that's probably whats going to happen. I would rather hear the advertiser unfriendly Standards or Classic Oldies on that frequency, but from what I have been hearing its going to be that new country that's not really country but a rap/rock/pop sound, floating around now-adays, where is the Possum, Buck, Kitty, Grandpa Jones and that once great sound. They will be much different than the more traditional XTU we all know and love, so I guess two country outlets can survive with different themes.
 
Same one that told me this back in December...

...will the largest city in the country finally...
have a format hole filled, that should of (A) never been empty in (L) the first place, could (T) happen, time will tell, Happy New Year.
 
Gunsmoke said:
where is the Possum, Buck, Kitty, Grandpa Jones and that once great sound.
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They're all dead. Possum and Buck last had hits in the 80s. Kitty retired in the 60s, and Grandpa Jones only really had one hit in 1962. Although he really got his dentures flapping when he sang "Mountain Dew" at the Grand Ole Opry. Even classic country doesn't play the last two.

Boston has two country stations. So does Detroit. Harrisburg has several, but it's way more country out there.

This is not to say I think Entercom will flip 96.5 to country. I think there are a lot of ways to position AC and still make money.
 
I can't imagine that Entercom is flipping 96.5 to country. I guess it's not impossible, but I remember the time when WXTU flipped and everyone said a town like Philly couldn't support a country station. They stuck with the format and now they're doing fine. So can Philly support 2 country stations? I HIGHLY doubt it. And WXTU is the known station for country in the market.
Plus, I would think there's a little unwritten agreement between the two companies that Entercom wouldn't flip it to be a competitor.
 
There's just no way Beasley paid all that money to Entercom without a contractual non-compete agreement. It will likely be a number of years before Entercom is even allowed to have a Country station in Philadelphia. So we can speculate on this idea all we want but let's not hold our breath on it actually happening.
 
Miguelito said:
There's just no way Beasley paid all that money to Entercom without a contractual non-compete agreement. It will likely be a number of years before Entercom is even allowed to have a Country station in Philadelphia. So we can speculate on this idea all we want but let's not hold our breath on it actually happening.
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But iHeart could! Hellloooooo 106.1 The Bull!

KIDDING, OF COURSE.
 
Jul said:
lol!!! I know you are joking. Music on AM radio is basically dead.
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WFAT, WKCE, WMID, I have to give the first two credit, for promoting, the best music ever made and using the term now on FM in stereophonic sound. Liners like the good old days before most of you were born. I personally enjoy them, great dose of british invasion, calif surf sounds, doo wop and country classics. Who knows, maybe they have more under 40 listeners then one may think, many young people might like this music. When WCAU-FM flipped to oldies in 1970, I was a lad of 17 and had no idea of what music they were playing, what was solid gold oldies, but I fell in love with them and so did thousands of others my age. So why do advertisers think young people would not embrace classic oldies, maybe their tired of all this junk out there now on the airwaves, I don't think the young generation changed that much in 48 years.
 
Music from less than two decades ago is quite different to a listener than music from five and six decades ago.

Audiences do change, whether you care to believe the reams of data or not. It simply is not a viable format for anyone who wants to make money in a major market. A few outliers holding on to last gasps of life don't change the reality.
 
...and in 1970, what did you think of music from 1910-1920? Now, we're talking about George M. Cohan! (By the way, you and I are the same age.)
 
Gunsmoke said:
WFAT, WKCE, WMID, I have to give the first two credit, for promoting, the best music ever made and using the term now on FM in stereophonic sound. Liners like the good old days before most of you were born. I personally enjoy them, great dose of british invasion, calif surf sounds, doo wop and country classics. Who knows, maybe they have more under 40 listeners then one may think, many young people might like this music. When WCAU-FM flipped to oldies in 1970, I was a lad of 17 and had no idea of what music they were playing, what was solid gold oldies, but I fell in love with them and so did thousands of others my age. So why do advertisers think young people would not embrace classic oldies, maybe their tired of all this junk out there now on the airwaves, I don't think the young generation changed that much in 48 years.
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You are so correct! Listen to WZML 92.9 out of Radnor, they seem to play '50's-90's. They're are a lot of people in my neighborhood in their thirties to forties that still wish you could hear sixties to seventies music on the radio in the Philly metro area. Me included. What a concept! Maybe there is hope.
Good points Gunsmoke!!!!
 
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