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WFMS vs. HANK

Nowdays country music is the new AC, at least in some parts of the country. Most of the former AC stations are really more oldies stations than AC
 
For a while in the mid 90's, WGRL 104.5 was the new CHR...Rap was choking the life out of top 40 and along came New Hit Country, 104.5 The Bear with High School Honkytonks & a general top 40 presentation of "not your dad's country". A country station that was cool for teens to listen to. I was far from being a teen then, but WGRL was by far my favorite station. Too bad WFMS started worrying about the mothership & put The Bear out to pasture on a weak signal. That was one of the best country stations I've heard yet...the words 'boring' & 'Bear' were at opposite ends of the dictionary. Never have understood why Hank chose to lean old and get 3.5 shares when the Bear was pulling 6 shares with young country in their heyday--and with a format designed to protect WFMS.
 
flip23 said:
Aren't the Bear people now running Hank? It seems like they would go that way if they thought it would work.
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Excellent point...one I hadn't considered.
 
Actually, most of those ex-Susquehanna folks now at HANK actually were more focused on the WFMS side - but, obviously they had knowledge of The Bear programming strategy as it co-existed with The Bear in the same building.
 
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