[BC] WLW Superpower Coverage (slightly off-topic)

[Bill Brister]

I remember back in the mid 70's when the powers that be in the music
companies were in the processing of changing country music, there were
several country stars grousing about the changes on TV. The powers wanted
country music to be more "homogenized", to appeal to a larger audience.
People like Minnie Pearl were guests on a TV show and did not have very kind
words about the changes that were coming. There were statements being made
that country music didn't exist anymore after that. Boxcar Willie said that
country music did indeed exist, it just wasn't being played on the radio.
You had to go to dance clubs or concerts and the like to get it. People like
Ricky Skaggs succeeded in bringing real country back temporarily with their
shows but I don't think it was a permanent thing.

BB
Houston, TX
 

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Rob recalled:

>I was thinking that if 500 kw ever made sense, it made more sense then, 
compared to now.   while the g/w area wasn't much bigger apparently, radio 
as an electronic entertainment medium was in a completely different 
situation then, with only live entertainment and motion pictures for 
competition.   I think there were more average listeners (as opposed to 
hobby dxers) who sought out skywave signals in the evening hours, and maybe
the 500 kw did make a difference in skywave reception.

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As well it might.  I never heard WLW during their 500-kW days.  But, when I
was a kid living on a farm outside of Loveland, CO, I remember every
Saturday night we would gather around the 1936 Zenith radio and my dad would
tune in the "Grand Old Opry" from WSM and when that was done, the "National
Barn Dance" on WLS.  And after that, some bizarre stuff from XELO "Clint,
Texas" and XEG. I remember Homer and Jethro, Grandpa Jones, Minnie Pearl,
etc.  Now, "country" music is a rock band with cowboy hats and a nasal
twang.  Back then, it was REALLY country!  Sometimes, for nostalgia's sake,
I log on to 
http://www.cowboyculturalsociety.com for some real Western music.  (Country
& Western (C&W) is actually two different styles of music.)

Glen Kippel
KHCS
Palm Desert, CA


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