But with the size of the market, their audience was massive. Per week, some , people would tune into That is better than any other country station in the United States, or the world. Ultimately, this is less about listenership, and more about real estate. These days, listeners have a myriad of options when it comes to what and how to listen to music. They can pull up streaming playlists on Spotify. They can listen on a phone or computer to virtually any radio station from around the country.
Before The more interesting point is what this says about mainstream country music in general. First, country radio is continuing to fail to hold enough of an audience to remain viable in the long term. The loss of Aside from Texas, and some small independent stations throughout rural regions, mainstream country radio pretty much sounds exactly the same no matter where you go.
If country music in New York was ever to succeed, it would probably need to be a bit more catered to that particular market. Along those same lines, the fact that country music just lost its biggest station to a classic hip-hop format should tell you just how far behind the times country music is. The Dickey Brothers of Cumulus Media in were onto something with the idea of splitting the country format into classic and contemporary.
It was just their implementation that was all wrong. It also speaks to just how much country music has slipped in cultural relevance.
American culture is hip-hop culture. Country music represents a tiny sliver of the mostly rural and Southern United States. In fact, country music loves to promote hip-hop in hopes it can cleave off some of its cultural relevance, when it truth the exact opposite is what is happening—hip-hop is cleaving off cultural relevance from country.
CMT has been promoting the rapper Nelly despite 3 credible accusations of sexual assault more than many actual country artists lately. The longest-running 1 country song in history is held by a New York-based hip-hop infused pop artist in Bebe Rexha with Florida Georgia Line, who collaborate with Nelly regularly.
Country music could probably benefit from better integration, and should be inviting to everyone. But when talking about representation in popular music overall, it is overwhelmingly dominated by black and Latin performers, with the country format being one of the final places some white performers not named Adele or Taylor Swift can be heard, while the format continues to lose market share by the day—the loss of WNSH in New York underscores this.
But What the long term implications could be might be hard to determine in the here and now. But without question, they are big. Conrad Fisher October 24, am. Debbie Adamsbaum October 27, pm. I was disappointed to find they took it off the air. I enjoyed Kelly Ford in the morning. Sam October 24, pm. Especially after no concerts for a year and a half. How dare they. Chris October 25, pm. The alternative is a Cumulus ex-Nash FM station which is a ratings bottom-feeder.
Linda J Dixon October 26, am. I am literally sick over this change! But needed to stop listening to the same old songs forever.
I just bought a home in Florida and they have several country stations which I love! This is just another reason why I want to move south for good! Linda Earley October 28, pm. Doug Green October 24, am. Jake Cutter October 24, am. The dwindling relevance you describe is a terrifying development, considering country is the last bastion of misogyny, all sorts of phobias, and glorification of violence.
How will the performative country activist journalists fund themselves when theres no more genres to resist? Linda Dixon October 26, am. Jake Cutter October 26, pm. Linda J Dixon October 28, pm. Jake Cutter. In my opinion, you have bad taste in music. RAP music replaced the country station. How can you possibly say that RAP is music?
Jake Cutter October 29, am. Jack W October 24, pm. My Dad would listen to it in the car sometimes and I would sometimes if I was driving one of the family cars, which would only have an AM radio.
Trigger October 24, pm. At this point, mainstream country radio programming is a niche market. Robert Mazzella October 24, pm. Did not mean to imply there was never any other country radio stations in New York, period.
Anthony Popola October 24, pm. MichaelA October 25, am. And from to there was Y which was branded New Country. Unfortunately it was just an amalgamation of signals that surrounded the city. You could get it decently in the Bronx, a bit in Staten Island but not in Manhattan. This year is also the 25th anniversary of the last time New York lost a full-market country station, when History repeats itself….
JUDE October 24, pm. Bear October 24, pm. Well this is depressing. Not that I listened to the station of live in New York. But in the Bay Area we had a country station in the 90s. Which is dumb as rocks because 10 miles outside the major cities is pretty DAMN country even with gentrification. I mean SF has the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, which while many headliner lean away from that overall it is a bastion of the real deal. Even after playing them great stuff on my stream.
Radio will do whatever they think their doing that they think people want. It is frustrating but honestly, most of my friends are listening to the streams of their DJ friends on Twitch or Mixcloud. I think things will have to turn to local communities and will have build those bases string because national pull seem to be dying.
Sigh At the end of it all I just hope people keep making quality country music or quality music in general despite whatever Wizard of Oz show the mainstream is shilling on tik-tok or some dead award show.
I think the future of radio is live and locally owned. People are done with big syndicated radio shows and playlists curated from on high. They want to feel like they know who is speaking to them. NattyBumpo October 24, pm. Seeing a lot of this all over. Our little city in Appalachia has 4 or 5 locally owned stations now. If we can do it then anyone can. Erik North October 25, am. Trigger October 25, am. Bear October 25, am. I completely agree with this. Today is the final day of Thank you for 19 years of amazing memories and playing Montreal's Hottest Music.
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