I listened online in New York quite often to this Muskegon station, as it had an unusual and interesting hybrid country, rock, Americana format. There was a great amount of variety, and lots of songs I rarely heard on commercial radio stations.
Over the past few weeks it has unfortunately evolved into a relatively conventional country station, playing the hits of the past few decades. Though I miss the old format, I am not surprised the station moved away from it. It seems that commercial music stations rarely stray from conventional narrow formats. And WLAW is owned by Cumulus, which has become a big player in radio. So they probably wanted WLAW to have a more "safe" format, similar to their other country stations.
Over the past few weeks it has unfortunately evolved into a relatively conventional country station, playing the hits of the past few decades. Though I miss the old format, I am not surprised the station moved away from it. It seems that commercial music stations rarely stray from conventional narrow formats. And WLAW is owned by Cumulus, which has become a big player in radio. So they probably wanted WLAW to have a more "safe" format, similar to their other country stations.