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i'm not a country radio fan generally, so take this with a grain of salt...but the country radio stations in that town sound about as lame as any i have ever heard. why in the world is that? you would think it would be very much the other way around. i mean, if country radio in nashville is that lame, whats that say about the format overall?
 
I think the entire format is boring. I also think it is insulting to rural, Southern people. When I do listen, I just do it so it will tick me off.


It hasn't always been this way, for about fifteen minutes, back in the 80's, I could hear Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle, Foster and Lloyd, and The Desert Rose Band on country radio. Sure there was plenty of music I didn't like back then too, but now I don't hear anything I like.

I don't hear any "soul" in today's mainstream country.
 
deltas69 said:
"country" music died a long time ago...they just keep propping the "body" up with manufactured pall bearers..
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Speakin of Pall Bearers - noticed the July #'s for WSM-AM? Let's hope the update tomorrow for August fairs a bit better, cause that music that was country is not playin in peoria. (Yes, these the the pre-ppms and it's not the end of the world, but just interesting that this post came up today.)

Oh, and if you're going to pick a station with current country success, I don't wanna jinx it, but Citadel's showing pretty well, despite being lame to a non country fan! First post jitters are "Incredible." ;D
 
What does it say about a company that does not think their country music station, which they hope to generate mucho dinera does not have a full time GM or full time PD. Kelley is also PD of a Memphis station and a Dallas station.

Radio has been sliding down a slippery slope for some time.

Want to hear some good country radio? Go to Pandora and create your own station.

No lame dj's to wade through to your favorite Dixie Chick song. Just dial it up.

Because of the advent of I-Pod, MP3, Smart Phones, Pandora, etc. music has really become a personal choice, and not a community choice liek a brick and mortar radio station.
 
IMHO, Nashville country radio will officially become lame on the afternoon of December 15...
 
It's always interesting to me to hear from country music fans visiting Nashville, who find country radio in this city — other than the House Foundation — less than spectacular. When asked what they expected, they say drop-ins from stars, live music from local musicians, on air discussions with songwriters, but most of all they expect DJs who are engaged with the music industry.
 
jetfli said:
It's always interesting to me to hear from country music fans visiting Nashville, who find country radio in this city — other than the House Foundation — less than spectacular. When asked what they expected, they say drop-ins from stars, live music from local musicians, on air discussions with songwriters, but most of all they expect DJs who are engaged with the music industry.
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We had a station like that once. It was called WSM-AM. Not only would advertisers not buy it, you couldn't give it away. They fired everybody. Welcome to the 21st Century
 
jetfli said:
It's always interesting to me to hear from country music fans visiting Nashville, who find country radio in this city — other than the House Foundation — less than spectacular. When asked what they expected, they say drop-ins from stars, live music from local musicians, on air discussions with songwriters, but most of all they expect DJs who are engaged with the music industry.
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You get all of that from Lightning 100, only it is with their artists, not country music people.
 
D-J: I guess all the other posters know the significance of 12/15. Could you explain it to a radio outisder? Thanks-
 
they say drop-ins from stars, live music from local musicians, on air discussions with songwriters thats the way ralph did it for years..of course that was back when country was country..
 
Journeyman said:
We had a station like that once. It was called WSM-AM.
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Huh? Sounds like you haven't listened lately. They have artists and songwriters dropping by all the time, with artist-hosted shows, exclusive live music from local musicians, and something called the Grand Ole Opry.

You guys need to quit ranting and start listening. Because unless someone listens, it all becomes self-fulfilling prophesy.
 
deltas69 said:
they say drop-ins from stars, live music from local musicians, on air discussions with songwriters thats the way ralph did it for years..of course that was back when country was country..
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And now Eddie Stubbs does exactly the same thing...except he's about 40 years younger than Ralph.

You whiners need to listen to WSM at 2PM each weekday: Artist hosted shows with Dierks Bentley, Pam Tillis, Jim Lauderdale, and more.

It's easy to complain. It takes time to listen. The past ain't comin' back, but if you don't listen now, you'll kill the future. Don't blame it on big corporate radio is you're the one not listening.
 
I was totally surprised to see the first two months of PPM weekly/monthly info was so unkind to AM. (Unless you're a regional spanish station.) I knew it wouldn't be good, but this bad. Whew! I gotta say BigA - while you're being painfully striaghtforward - you're being honest. I think the WSM-AM game is over, but Gaylord might just be the ONLY company to stick it out without going to a talk or sports format. In this case, they are going the community a service vs. obviously getting rich of this. It's a sad reality. Then again, this new pre-PPM info is certainly not going to
lead to a knee-jerk reaction from Gaylord (or anybody). Time will tell in nine months to a year.
 
TheBigA said:
Journeyman said:
We had a station like that once. It was called WSM-AM.
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Huh? Sounds like you haven't listened lately. They have artists and songwriters dropping by all the time, with artist-hosted shows, exclusive live music from local musicians, and something called the Grand Ole Opry.

You guys need to quit ranting and start listening. Because unless someone listens, it all becomes self-fulfilling prophesy.
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That's right, when out-of-towners come in and say they expected to hear it on Nashville Country Radio, and there are still getting on the one station that basically pioneered it, you can only assume one thing... the people who took that survey never made it over to the AM side of the dial. And from the preliminary PPMs, it looks like a lot of Nashvillians aren't either.
 
jetfli said:
And from the preliminary PPMs, it looks like a lot of Nashvillians aren't either.
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And that's the point. If the stations that consistently win in the ratings are basically no-talk jukeboxes, what is the motivation for a station to do something else? No one get's paid for "art."

The people who are on this board are radio fans. If THEY don't know what 650 is doing, then game over. No point losing money when even radio fans don't care. I read where critics say all somone has to do is make a commitment to great radio and the listeners will come, and that's BS. Because here's a station that's doing more than anyone else, and they're the 4th rated country station. Sure, they fired some staff, and it's not as cushy a gig as it was 30 years ago. But tell me a station that's better.
 
Tibbs2 said:
Gaylord might just be the ONLY company to stick it out without going to a talk or sports format.
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I think the time for that is passed because there are too many sports stations, and talk radio is dead.

But this is a company that just spent hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up after a flood. I don't know a radio-only company that could survive that.
 
TheBigA said:
jetfli said:
And from the preliminary PPMs, it looks like a lot of Nashvillians aren't either.
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And that's the point. If the stations that consistently win in the ratings are basically no-talk jukeboxes, what is the motivation for a station to do something else? No one get's paid for "art."

The people who are on this board are radio fans. If THEY don't know what 650 is doing, then game over. No point losing money when even radio fans don't care. I read where critics say all somone has to do is make a commitment to great radio and the listeners will come, and that's BS. Because here's a station that's doing more than anyone else, and they're the 4th rated country station. Sure, they fired some staff, and it's not as cushy a gig as it was 30 years ago. But tell me a station that's better.
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You can't say that people don't want that kind of programming until you try it on FM. A lot of people won't flip over to AM because they would rather hear ANYTHING on FM over something good on AM. They just won't put up with the AM buzz. If it doesn't work on FM, then you can say it doesn't work.
 
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