SF Bay area loses country station.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 23 Dec 2001 7:43 am

Well, just this week, San Francisco lost one of it's two country (yeah right!) radio stations. Not that it was a great station, but it was something. Now when the one that is left plays crap (75% of the time), I can't switch to the other. Thank god I have a CD player in my truck.

Funny thing though, It took me a couple of days to really tell it changed to light rock. When a Phil Collins song came on, I started to wonder.

Oh well...

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Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 23 Dec 2001 7:53 am

If you think that's bad, see my thread here in music about Gaylord Strikes Again. Looks like WSM's traditional country format will be changed.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 24 Dec 2001 8:00 am

Yeah, I saw that. Pretty pathetic if you ask me. Country music may well be on it's death bed.

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Sunny Callen · Post by **Sunny Callen** » 24 Dec 2001 10:57 am

Seems to be the national trend now. I spent a number of years off and on, in commercial broadcasting - both on air and management and I think the way "industry" is going generally stinks - particularly in country radio. Part of the problem, IMHO, is that almost 80% of ALL the AM/FM commercial licenses in the US are now owned and operated by something like only -five- corporations - which means we get "cookie cutter" radio. "golden oldies 91.5 FM" sounds the same - exactly the same - in Fremont, CA as it does in Fargo, ND - literally "McDonald's radio". So called "broadcast schools" teach everyone to sound the same so they can -get- a job when they graduate. Country music radio has really gone downhill in the past few years - you have 22 year old wonderkins attempting to program music they know nothing about and the same trying to play it when they could care less about it - their goal is only to get "moved up" to the next level market area. And as we all know, radio stations (ie: corporations) will change a format like we change underwear, in search of a profitable bottom line - so very few will hang in there and properly market and sell a country format tailored to a given area - and I think it'll just get worse.

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 29 Dec 2001 7:44 am

"McDonald's Radio"? Thanks, Sunny. I like that one!

Bill Llewellyn · Post by **Bill Llewellyn** » 29 Dec 2001 9:28 am

Yeah... I turned on my little walkman radio yesterday which had been tuned to KYCY 93.3 (San Francisco) and heard this synthesized voice repeating over and over, "T-minus 3 days, (x) hours, (y) minutes, (z) seconds, and counting...." It was spooky. Eventually the voice said that a new station would come on the air at the end of the count. Why do we need yet another soft rock, or hiphop, or smooth jazz, or metal, or whatever station? There's so little country around. Now we're down to KRTY (San Jose). I do like KRTY, but if KRTY goes, that's it.

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