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Lone Star 92.5 Wins Me Over

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Kharris

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I had serious doubts but by Willie I think they're on to something! The Texas flavor generates the pride factor and local feel. The processing makes Johnny Cash more rockin' - you can actually hear the drums now on some of his older stuff so it segues well into ZZ or Stevie.

The demo that remembers the "Progressive Country" of the 70s will eat this up. And Willie's sweepers are clever. I'm anxious to see how this goes - we've got to find a way to overcome growing resistance to stop sets.

The Bone can capitalize on this by going back to some of the fun rock they used to play, along with the required Zep, and backing off Free Bird. If they just increase the Stevie and ZZ it's going to get real boring around here. And they've got to get rid of that terrible morning show.

A Golden-moment-gone-bad was Lone Star's segue from Jr. Brown's "Highway Patrol" into Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner". It sounded weird going from Jr. into that long synthesizer intro. If it had been programmed to kick right into the Strat it would have killed!
 
Kharris said:
The demo that remembers the "Progressive Country" of the 70s will eat this up. And Willie's sweepers are clever. I'm anxious to see how this goes - we've got to find a way to overcome growing resistance to stop sets.
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Okay, let's call it '75. And let's say that 'demo' was 20 in 1975. If my math is correct (and I'm a RTF major, so math ain't my strong suit) that 20 year old is now 52. Which means they have 2 more years in that prime demo before advertisers start losing interest...

It'll be interesting to see if they can survive on an aging demo...I know when I was sampling them on my drive home today I heard the early Allman Brothers, 70's era ZZ top and old Bob Seger...In other words, nothing from the last 30 years...

And yeah, there's a demo that is going to lap that stuff up...The question becomes will teh advertisers lap up a station of those lappers...
 
They are playing 3 separate genres, Classic Rock (which ended about 15 years ago), Outlaw Country (Waylon, Willie, Coe, etc) and Americana/Texas country (which is generally less than 10 years old).

They could be playing more of the Americana as well as more variety, but they may be going for a slow transition that direction to quell as much mutiny as possible.
 
They were digging a bit deeper with the classic rock just before the switch. Now they have ruined KZPS.
 
dalradiogal said:
They were digging a bit deeper with the classic rock just before the switch. Now they have ruined KZPS.
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Yep....if you saw more than the 12+ numbers , you saw KZPS had a stellar book.
 
jd said:
Here's an interesting post from the archives: www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,17269.0.html
Looks like somebody else was impressed with "Lone Star" when it first appeared on KZPS HD-2 back in '05. Maybe it was the Slobberbone tunes...
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Kzps could win me over by going deeper and staying deep with Rock, on their HD-2 Channel. Not "These are the commercial Hits that we never had room to play"......
But..... these are the cool songs that we never had room to play ! !
 
The playlist seems to be stabilizing and overall it sounds interesting in my opinion. They're playing a wider variety of artists. I wouldn't be suprised if Lonestar captured a few good books.
 
Regarding the country - rock dichotomy:

(1)It is much easier to listen to some music you may not be as fond of mixed in with music you are than it is to listen to all music you are fond of mixed in with commercials.
(2)The sweet spot of the gray area between the two genres seems to be if every song was without lyrics, both would assume it is their genre.
(3)The number of live cuts in the rotation is part of its genius.

Only real complaint is that the Springsteen and Mellencamp seem weighted a bit to heavy or perhaps they are just to clustered and therefore seem that way.
 
As my TSL grows (esp on weekends) I'm starting to hear the same songs waaaay too often. Seems to be 10-15 songs I hear every time I tune in. They need to thing the herd a bit and open up the playlist some.

They have hooked some of us.......just don't run it into the ground. ;)
 
pragmatic_problemsolver said:
Regarding the country - rock dichotomy:

(1)It is much easier to listen to some music you may not be as fond of mixed in with music you are than it is to listen to all music you are fond of mixed in with commercials.
(2)The sweet spot of the gray area between the two genres seems to be if every song was without lyrics, both would assume it is their genre.
(3)The number of live cuts in the rotation is part of its genius.

Only real complaint is that the Springsteen and Mellencamp seem weighted a bit to heavy or perhaps they are just to clustered and therefore seem that way.
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But chicks like it.... Bow down to what chicks like, and you'll never have another complaint !! (JK)

They can drop the Black Crowes and George Thg. as well.

Add Micheal Murphey from the Wild fire era, but not Wildfire in particular.

Who Knew ? ?
 
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