The Revolution Rolls On
Yes its true, we piss and moan about pop country a lot around here. Maybe too much. I get emails for people upon occasion saying “Yeah, I hate pop country too, but who cares? Just don’t listen to it if...
View ArticleLegend Sails, Sales Fall, and Swift Fails
In a time that calls for bold ideas, fresh blood, and innovation, country has decided to stick even more vehemently to their unimaginative formulas, while cutting costs ahead of unnecessary contraction...
View ArticleClear Channel Radio Cuts Could Effect Country Music More
Late last week it was announced that dozens of local DJ's from the US's largest radio station operator Clear Channel were being cut all across the country. The cuts are to regional markets, that cover...
View ArticleFirst Ever “Country Boy Band” Being Cast
I can't make this up folks, there is actually an effort out there to put together what is being called a "country music boy band." So if you have the ambition to be a musical monkey, then shave your...
View ArticleStudy: Listeners Want More Classic Country On Radio
One of the causes of the declining country radio trend according to the president of Edison Research Larry Rosin is that country radio is under-serving it's classic country fans. 1 in 6 country music...
View ArticleScott Borchetta: The Rise of the Country Music Antichrist
I first used the phrase "Country Music Antichrist" in reference to Big Machine Records CEO Scott Borchetta about 2 1/2 years ago. I'd like to hold my chin high and say I was being prophetic, but in...
View ArticleHow Nashville Surprisingly Tackled The Talent Glut in 2012
One of the most remarkable music events of 2012 must be how Nashville and some of its biggest, most bloated and notorious corporate citizens did the inexplicable: they began to tackle the issue of the...
View ArticleGrand Theft Auto 5 Game Features Real Country Through “Rebel Radio”
If you need any more proof that corporate country music has become so milktoast that the backlash against its homogenized format and fashion plate stars has become an indelible and easily-identifiable...
View ArticleClear Channel, CMT Deal Means More Homogenization
Clear Channel, the largest radio provider in the US, just struck a massive deal with CMT, a division of Viacom, to create national country music programming to be distributed across 125 country radio...
View ArticleBobby Bones – The Face of Country Radio Consolidation
The Bobby Bones Show started on the WSIX flagship station being syndicated to 15 other stations across the country, and in less than a year is already up to a total of 50 stations. With his current...
View ArticleAustin Lets Out a Hipster Gaffaw at Your Country Festival, iHeartRadio
Today it was announced that Austin, TX would be the site for iHeartRadio's first ever country music festival, transpiring at Austin's Frank Erwin Center on March 29th, with a list of top tier headliner...
View ArticleA Country Music Media Arms Race Has Broken Out
Yes ladies and gentlemen, just like the great American eagle and the mighty Soviet bear staring each other down and belligerently stockpiling armaments to intimidate one another, the two titans of...
View ArticleUPDATED: Clear Channel DJ Bobby Bones May Leave Radio
Powerful Clear Channel country music DJ Bobby Bones might be calling it quits according to a letter he posted to his listeners and fans on Twitter Thursday evening (1-30). The morning show DJ for WSIX...
View ArticleAnti Bobby Bones Billboards Spring Up in Nashville
As the centerpiece to Clear Channel's plans for a nationally-syndicated country music radio network, Bobby Bones and his sideways hat have become the scourge of the country music airwaves. No better...
View ArticleScott Borchetta Said WHAT? (2014 Country Radio Seminar Primer)
This week in Nashville is the annual CRS or Country Radio Seminar where executives and personalities in country radio gather with executives and artists in the country music industry to hobnob,...
View ArticlePop Country Clothing, Furniture, Food & Paint Coming from NASH
Cumulus Media is #2 on the radio ownership totem pole, and to attempt to hopscotch their rival Clear Channel, they are planning massive expenditures, acquisitions, and ventures to push the recognition...
View ArticleStudy: Radio Consolidation Not Working
This year at the Country Radio Seminar, Larry Rosin of Edison Research was once again sounding the warning bells about the viability of country music on the radio moving forward in the face of rapid...
View ArticleCalls of Racism Amid Continued Signs Radio Consolidation is Failing
All the fears, all the warnings sounded by concerned music fans and observers of media by the passing of the Telecommunications Act in 1996 and the revisions in 2003 that heavily laxed the laws...
View ArticleReview – Inaugural iHeartRadio Country Festival
In typical Austin fashion, the festival and live feed started 12 minutes late. Though iHeartRadio was touting the experience as a "festival", the outdoor, multi-day and multi-stage discovery of new...
View ArticleNew Study Proves Why Radio Still Matters
the simple fact remains, radio is still the most widely used format for music listeners, confirmed by a new study by Edison Research. And even more importantly, radio is where listeners go to discover...
View ArticleThe People Who Read the New People Country Magazine
2014 is turning out to be the year of the celebrity crotch sniffer in country music. The word is out that country is fertile ground for advertisers and is a fast-rising subject in popular culture, so...
View ArticleConservative Talk Could Kill Country Radio’s Big Plans
Though country has been lucrative for the radio business in some respects, and this is the reason media is betting big on country for its future, it may be too little, too late, as debt mounts, credit...
View ArticleBOBBY BONES, LEAVE KACEY MUSGRAVES ALONE! (a rant)
How in the world did we get to this place in country music where a pop DJ who hasn't even been in the format but for a year feels like artists have an obligation to not only acknowledge his presence,...
View ArticleCumulus & Big Machine Partner for “Classic” Nash Icons Venture
Announced late Tuesday, NASH Icons, a takeoff on Cumulus' already-established nationally-syndicated NASH brand, is a partnership with the Big Machine Label Group for the purpose of taking old and new...
View ArticleClassic & Contemporary Country Could Go Separate Ways
Envision a day where all the current Top 40 country that classic country fans are incensed over is segregated into its own autonomous format, with its own radio stations, and potentially even its own...
View ArticleAre Cumulus Media’s NASH Plans Serious, or Just Sizzle?
If Cumulus Media and its CEO Lew Dickey have their way, in the coming years that big 'N' will be one of the most recognized brands in North America, especially if you're a country music fan. The plans...
View ArticleDetails of New American Country Countdown Awards
When the news broke last week that there would be yet another new country music awards show squeezing its way into the already-crowded TV event space, it stimulated a collective rolling of the eyes...
View ArticleFCC To Stimulate More Media Consolidation “On Its Own Accord”
One of the fundamental issues causing the rapid decline in country music has been the massive consolidation in the ownership of country music's radio stations and other media outlets. As huge companies...
View ArticleCumulus Media: “It’s Time For Country To Fragment”
Ever since the partnership between radio owner Cumulus Media and the Big Machine Label Group called NASH Icon was proposed, the big question has been if it will it result in the country music radio...
View ArticleDJ Bobby Bones Cries Like Little Girl with a Skinned Knee After CMA Snub
On Wednesday morning (9-3) the nominations for the 2014 CMA Awards were unveiled, including the nominees for the CMA's National Broadcast Media Personality, of which apparently Bobby Bones though he...
View ArticleNASH Icon is Now Beating Bobby Bones in Nashville
Hold the presses. This whole Nash Icon / country music format split business just got a hell of a lot more serious and interesting. On Monday (10-6), the ratings for radio stations were released for...
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