[BC] Country Music plight in top towns

[Craig Bowman]

I have not heard the W-4 country morning team but WYCD is a real big 
town country station.  The new station digs a little deeper but with no 
personality will probably die on the vine like every other format CC has 
tried on that station. 

I have a client in St. Clare County (the north end of the metro) with a 
country station that pulls a solid 1 share in the metro.  WSAQ is a very 
traditionally formatted country station which plays the hits but is not 
afraid to play Johnny Cash, Dolly, John Anderson, John Conlee, etc.  In 
St. Clare county (where unemployment is in double digits) the station 
raised nearly 100K for child abuse prevention.

Craig Bowman
Durand, MI



Cowboy wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 September 2006 07:47 pm, Craig Bowman wrote:
>   
>> Detroit added a country station a couple months ago for a total of three 
>> (if you don't count St.Clare County).
>>     
>
>  Kinda sorta, but not really.
>  As the 'Ole Jaybird used to say.....
>  "That ain't country, pardner !"
>
>  What it does have going for it, and the only reason it's on the
>  rental car radio, is NO morning "personality" !!
>  Strictly juke box, and rotating ( though annoyingly poorly done )
>  liners and promo's, with the mandatory spots.
>
>  The other "country" station has a morning "team" that must be
>  running a laugh track every other word.
>  "My wife was diagnosed with cancer yesterday."
>  HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ad nauseam.
>  Had that on about 15, maybe 20 seconds.
>  OK, realisticly about 30 minutes.
>
>