Southern Ky AMERICANA?

[Sgt Preston]

Is there an AMERICANA format FM station in Bowling Green (or nearby)KY or a progressive/alternative format station (other than College radio)?

 

[w9wi]

Is there an AMERICANA format FM station in Bowling Green (or nearby)KY or a progressive/alternative format station (other than College radio)?

Prog/alt, no, except for 91.7 at WKU. I don't recall hearing Americana up there either (spent a couple of days around Mammoth Cave last fall) except what WSM is doing.

 

[dfwrunner]

Is there an AMERICANA format FM station in Bowling Green (or nearby)KY or a progressive/alternative format station (other than College radio)?

What the heck is americana?

I think KTFW's country legends would work well in Louisville, So IN.

 

[marconi jr]

Louisville already has one.

WRKA-FM 4.7 4.8 4.4 4.2 4.1 Country Oldies Cox

 

[radiorob2.0]

WSM-AM has added Americana and some Bluegrass to their playlist. As far as Progressive/Alternative, 102.9 out of Nashville is still listed as Alternative, but I believe they have drifted more mainstream. The closest signal with something resembling Progressive would be 100.1 also out of Nashville. However, they are a Class A focused on Nashville.

 

[oxford777]

Is there an AMERICANA format FM station in Bowling Green (or nearby)KY or a progressive/alternative format station (other than College radio)?

870 AM in Leitchfield used to have a format similar to "Americana". Pretty good daytime signal for about 30 miles around Grayson County. Not sure if it reaches BG, though.

 

[radiorob2.0]

Is there an AMERICANA format FM station in Bowling Green (or nearby)KY or a progressive/alternative format station (other than College radio)?

870 AM in Leitchfield used to have a format similar to "Americana". Pretty good daytime signal for about 30 miles around Grayson County. Not sure if it reaches BG, though.

You can hear them in BG on a car radio, assuming the part 15 monsters are nowhere to be heard.

 

[Sgt Preston]

870 AM in Leitchfield used to have a format similar to "Americana". Pretty good daytime signal for about 30 miles around Grayson County. Not sure if it reaches BG, though.


WOW!...NO FM "AMERICANA" format in a city the size of BG...thats a shame!

100.1 FM ("Lightning 100") in Nashville is the ONLY "AMERICANA" format station...
& does the format quite well.

Sounds like BG might be READY & very RIPE for an "ALTERNATIVE" formatted station!

 

[bassassassin]

Sarge, it amazes me how often a supposedly "progressive" market fails to support an alternative station. Not at all like the days of Natural 97, which at the time would have to be called progressive rock. In Lexington, Cumulus tried it in the early part of the decade and it tanked. One would think that with UK, Transy etc. it would be a safe bet, but you never know....

 

[Sgt Preston]

Sarge, it amazes me how often a supposedly "progressive" market fails to support an alternative station. Not at all like the days of Natural 97, which at the time would have to be called progressive rock.....

I checked a listing of radio stations in BG...i guess WDNS FM (Is it still called "D-93"???) would be the only thing close to a progressive station...but the "CLASSIC ROCK" format really doesnt measure up...
it should probably be called OLD TOP 40 MUSIC or "CLASSIC TOP 40" (since 99% of all the tunes they play were TOP 40 hits in "their time")

Most "CLASSIC ROCK" stations dont play ALBUM CUTS like NATURAL 97 FM did back in the '70s.

 

[FatPunkBastard]

BG is "progressive". Funny, worked here for years, had no idea! A semi-rural 200+ market dominated by country and AC? Yeah. Now that's progressive!

 

[bhearion]

You might try SAM 100.7. It's better than anything we have here in Louisville.

 

[radiorob2.0]

You might try SAM 100.7. It's better than anything we have here in Louisville.

It might be, but ol' SAM don't play Bluegrass or Americana.

 

[bhearion]

You might try SAM 100.7. It's better than anything we have here in Louisville.

It might be, but ol' SAM don't play Bluegrass or Americana.

I have never heard any Bluegrass or Americana on WLRT Lighting 100 either!

 

[bassassassin]

Compared with Elizabethtown and Owensboro MSAs, Bowling Green has experienced the largest post-recession employment gain. From November 2001 to April 2006, total payroll employment increased by 13 percent. Bowling Green has experienced a 5% increase in manufacturing employment, a 5% increase in professional and business services, and a 6% increase in leisure and hospitality since April 2005.
Bowling Green's high income and job growth combined with a low cost of doing business has led the city to be named to Forbes Magazine's 2009 list of the "Best Small Places for Business". In an evaluation of 179 cities across the nation, Forbes ranked Bowling Green 19th in which to do business, finishing ahead of Elizabethtown and Owensboro. The list ranked Bowling Green 34th nationwide for the lowest cost-of-living and 22nd for highest job growth.
In March 2009, the Bowling Green metropolitan area was recognized by Site Selection Magazine as a top economic development community in the United States for communities with populations between 50,000 and 200,000 people. The Bowling Green metro also received the same recognition by Site Selection magazine in 2008.
Sounds progressive to me, but I'm not snarky and haven't been working there for years, so I guess I'm wrong. ;D

 

[FatPunkBastard]

I think we were talking in terms of music, not economic growth. Thanks for the stats, tho?

 

[Sgt Preston]

looking @ Bowling Green,KY from the ARBITRON vantage point...its market size: #211 w/ a city population of just over 55,000 people & 116,000 listed in the Metro area.

checking the BG radio stations listing....35 stations
14 AMs
21 FMs listed in the market...

A variety of Sports/Talk & country music on AM
& on the FM side...several religious, country, classic rock, & AC (soft, hot or otherwise)

Seems like a CRAP-load of stations not to have 1 "AMERICANA" or PROGRESSIVE station...

Anyone wanna step up to the plate?

Or will they ALL play it SAFE?
(i think I know the answer!)

 

[FatPunkBastard]

As long as I got rent to pay, "playing it safe" is fine w/me! Now is not the time to take risks.

 

[Sgt Preston]

As long as I got rent to pay, "playing it safe" is fine w/me! Now is not the time to take risks.

Thats to bad, FP!...
dont know whcih station you're associated with...but, seems like with 21 FMs in the BG mkt....that pie is sliced mighty THIN.

If i had a small station sitting in BG...i'd tell my advertisers (survey) what i wuz thinking & GO FER IT!

i wuz in BG this past wkend...& was "channel-hopping" for a couple hours....very SAD...

 

[bassassassin]

I blew through town last Friday and again on Tuesday scanning the dial myself, Sarge. You are correct - there is much lacking in the market, and that is largely due to stations playing it safe and playing the S.O.S. all other stations play. Talent was substandard for a town with a univ. that should be cranking out some viable jocks as well. I guess they all leave.