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Ready for four country stations again?

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Nu_Roo_2

Sorry if I got anyone's hopes up there, but I got a kick out of the first line in the "First Listen" section of Today's Ross on Radio: 

"READY FOR MARKETS WITH FOUR COUNTRY stations again?"  Then he goes on to talk about how Oklahoma City just got an (OMG!) fourth country station.  Of course he doesn't mention (and I'm sure doesn't know) that Columbus already has five.

Yet another demonstration of:
(1) How royally screwed up Columbus radio is, and
(2) How nationally anonymous Columbus radio tends to be

(1) and (2) are very much related, of course.
 
When you think of a Radio Market with 5 country stations, you think that this market would be somewhere in Arkansas or around there. You don't usally think of Columbus, Ohio. Hell, Columbus probably got more country stations then any market in the south. It just doesn't make sense to me. Why? Why does Columbus got to be the one with the most country stations. :'(

I mean, can anyone even find another market that's got 5 or more?
 
I know this doesn't explain why in the hell Columbus has five country signals, but i'm guessing that station owners go with the format because 1-It's an easy sell, and 2-Country listeners are loyal to the format. Still, Columbus has more format holes in it than a block of Swiss cheese. Pathetic. :mad:
 
You hit it on the nail Alan. Not only is country cheap to run, country listeners that actually like nothing but country will put all 5 stations on their presets. However, having that many country stations has to be dangerous to the powerhouse. No matter how loyal they are, when one station is playing commercials, the listener will just flip to the next country station. Don't really know much about country, but that's just my guess.
 
alans613 said:
wilson1000 said:
need more country
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I hope you're being sarcastic.
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Maybe it's hypnosis. If you tune in all five country stations within 15 minutes, you end up under a country spell. I'll leave it to the conspiracy theorists to come up with a reason for this nefarious plot.
 
If 105.7 could get back all of their cume from their country days they still wouldn't have enough people for a poker game. That was back before the move-in to Hilliard, and as I recall the only reason Hot Country 105.7 had any ratings at all is that Arbitron tallied bovine cume for awhile. That test was branded an udder failure after too many diaries were eaten, and 105.7 owner Jacor complained that Arbitron was failing to count phantom cud.
 
Nu_Roo_2 said:
If 105.7 could get back all of their cume from their country days they still wouldn't have enough people for a poker game. That was back before the move-in to Hilliard, and as I recall the only reason Hot Country 105.7 had any ratings at all is that Arbitron tallied bovine cume for awhile. That test was branded an udder failure after too many diaries were eaten, and 105.7 owner Jacor complained that Arbitron was failing to count phantom cud.
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105.7 was known as Kix Country. Yes they didn't do so well, If I remember Jacor changed formats to a simlucast of K 95.5 after about 4 or 5 months after launching the Kix format.
 
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