KYSR TO COUNTRY?

[Yeziknoradio]

I am here to talk about country music, and the realistic chances of it happening in LA. I would personally rather hear a mix of alt country, classic country, and modern country, and think a noncommercial station playing "american" roots music would be pretty damn cool.

Anything KYSR would do would probably be too commercial, too nashville, and would not meet the commercial standards of success that KZLA fell victim to.

Now, do you want to talk more about country radio in LA, and KYSR's possible flip to it?

Someone better hurry and go country before the few country listeners rush out and get XM country radio...

 

[romer979fm]

Anything KYSR would do would probably be too commercial, too nashville, and would not meet the commercial standards of success that KZLA fell victim to.

I don't understand: I get what you mean by being "too nashville" (I'm on Music Row right now)...but are you saying KZLA
didn't fit the cookie-cutter Nashville mold? The non-mainstream variations of country (classic country...alt country...
americana) look good on paper...but are really novelty formats. A lot of early interest...then they're gone.
I've seen it happen numerous times...as upstarts try to unseat WSIX and WSM...make a run and then fall back.

I don't think KZLA was poorly programmed (don't get me started onhow they 'weren't going after the country lifestyle'...
that's crap...see the previous 'redneck' posts). KZLA just ran out of audience as the demographics keep changing.

 

[zumahans]

---->I don't understand: I get what you mean by being "too nashville" (I'm on Music Row right now)...but are you saying KZLA didn't fit the cookie-cutter Nashville mold?

I'm on thin ice here, I am not by any means a "country" music fan. I listen to the Grand Ol' Opry, and love it. But the rest of the week, I'm listening to alt country. I am not a regular listener of ANY cookiecutter nashville station - as I said, the music is a bit too overproduced, and the lyrics too syrupy, for me.

In this alt-country fan's opinion, KZLA sounded not dissimilar to WSYX, which I get on XM. Not my cup of Coors. But not bad.

---->The non-mainstream variations of country (classic country...alt country...
americana) look good on paper...but are really novelty formats. A lot of early interest...then they're gone. I've seen it happen numerous times...as upstarts try to unseat WSIX and WSM...make a run and then fall back.

I think you're right. I think they are niche formats, which is why I suggest a noncom station. and I think mainstream country, in this market, is a niche market as well. If KCSN, a class A FM station with a good signal only in the SF Valley and Santa Clarita, concentrated most dayparts on nashville country and ran the other novelties around it, I think it would do well.

Certainly better than the third choice for classical music in the one third of LA that can pick it up.

----->I don't think KZLA was poorly programmed (don't get me started onhow they 'weren't going after the country lifestyle'...that's crap...see the previous 'redneck' posts). KZLA just ran out of audience as the demographics keep changing.

You're right.