There were negotiations, and based on those negotiations, they . But if the complaint is theyre adding pop country, and theyre actually adding Americana and classic rock with one mainstream artist an hour, these are two separate concerns. Rick Dayton was a morning anchor who joined the station in 2009. The point is all Texas, all the time is a ridiculous argument against Whiskey Lullaby given the format of the Ranch. These women make GREAT country music. 3:42 pm. All of this talk about Pandora stations *has* got me wonderingwould something like a Jack FM / We play anything! format work on mainstream/corporate country radio? I used to stream the Ranch daily. I would think the loss of listeners would outnumber the listeners gained. Shayne Hollinger Nonetheless, I totally understand why some listeners are unhappy, I think they have a right to be concerned the format could get even worse in the future, and they should let their voice and opinions be known. Read the comments here and elsewhere. Lot of fun.. Jun 12, 2020 - Enjoyed my time with Heather White @KVET. March 5, 2017 @ These are songs/artist that weve go requests from from regular Ranch listeners over the last three years. Heather Thomson will not be returning for the next season of The Real Housewives of New York City, the reality star confirmed to ET . He . At this point even mainstream country radios audience is a niche market. Shayne keeps saying this is what their listeners have been asking for. Ill give it another listen . (Abuser of punctuation). Because I see the number of people against this format change far outweigh those who are for it on social media and on their streaming app. Oh, I live in Nashville, and you are pretty correct, as WSMs AM channel *is* pretty close to what I was talking about. 10-15 years ago we didnt have anywhere near as many stations that played independent country artists as we do now. Its hard to please everyones tastes, and thats why I try to balance everything out. But I do have a life and didnt want to spend my entire Saturday/Sunday compiling a 200-plus playlist. Right, so we should also remove Turnpike Troubadours, Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, Stony LaRue, and Merle Haggard? When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Im gonna be in Dallas next week and now have something to tune in. "The reality . The irony is Nashville country stations are finally catching onto the popularity of Texas/Red Dirt music and are trying to play catch up. As for me, Ive turned off The Ranch. Id rather hear classic rock or pre -2000 country over 99% of current pop/bro/mainstream radio country, but wouldnt trade either for a Guy Clark, Gary P. Nunn or Ray Wylie Hubbard song or Shane Smith & the Saints. Im originally from the same area (20 mins north of Mansfield) where 101.3 WNCO plays and it was always my favorite. Heather White Radio personality, J.D., Mom.probably not in that order. Seriously? On stations I have had the opportunity to program, my research has found the typical listener is familiar with and likes other music than simply a more hardcore country sound. In short, we try to create something the greater number of people will love and then we sell those numbers to businesses wanting to reach our listeners in order to stay on the air. specifically. Sometimes I have a hard time taking it serious though when they play a stray Luke Bryan song. No Stones? They tried this stupid stunt before where they let listeners vote on what they wanted and now they are doing it again. Maybe one of the three local country stations could implement it. I wonder if theyre testing the waters to go full mainstream? I know youre just relying on info given to you, but for those of us who have listened to this station for a decade or more, it was quite clear that 10% is a laughable statistic. Give me Eric Church any day. Heather White is part of the "Bama, Rob, and Heather" morning show on 98.1 KVET. 12:08 pm. Bryan Cranston gives his take on Breaking Bad 's finale; specifically, Walter White's decision to leave behind the watch Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) gave him for his 51st birthday. She is the deceased leader of the most popular and powerful clique at Westerburg High known as The Heathers. 1:33 pm. The list you posted is very similar to the mix one hears on Outlaw. Maybe hell will freeze over, too. A college here in Nashville about a year ago switched to an all Americana format. Luke Bell? Streets of Bakersfield, Highway 40 Blues, and High Cost of Living may have been mainstream back catalogue inclusions, as well. August 14, 2017 @ How many times have we mentioned the lack of female artists in the Texas country scene? Its starts out pretty typicalTurnpike of course, shifts to Reckkess Kelly, Sturgill, Ryan Beaver, Cody Jinksthen whoaan old Brantley Gilbert song sandwiched in between Rob Baird, and The Casey Donahue Bandat first it threw me off, but then I realized it was actually a nice change of pace. As per Page Six, Kelly Dodd said that Heather left in 2017 " because she had too much 'ego' after being demoted ". March 5, 2017 @ That shits messed up. Well I have a job, and Im not the radio czar. Dead by Daylight > General Discussions > Topic Details. Today the music is garbage, hell! Then it seemed like 6 months later, it was back to Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, & The Doors. Someone made a comment to the effect that people in many other parts of the country would be thrilled to have a station that played this much music that is not considered mainstream country. Please send me these studies. Its still a hell of a lot better of an experiment than KSCS playing Ed Sheeran and Kanye West. 10:28 pm. I couldnt tell you when the last time I listened to it for more than five minutes was. I dont remember hearing that many classic rock songs in a 2 hour time frame when I was listening to the Ranch last year. The wife of Jonathan Schindler made her long-awaited return to the hit Bravo series in the fifth episode of Season 13, which is entitled "Putting the Tiff in Tiffany's." As soon as Heather sat down for dinner at Ramona Singer's home in the Hamptons, Leah McSweeney began to call . The Sirius Outlaw station I primarily listen to plays classic rock all the time in its mix (Hell, Steve Earle plays Prince!) Makes a long day plowing ground suck. Heather Thomson Discusses the "Scary" and "Upsetting" Experiences That Led Her to Quit RHONY, Talks Warning Sign She Saw with Luann and Texts from Bethenny! And for those boneheads that threaten violence, Id say buy your own station. Kacey Musgraves Dime Store Cowgirl Perfecto! Yes, there is some irony in some Texas / Red Dirt fans complaining about pop in the format. I understand what has happened, I just dont like it. He can be reached at [email protected] or 617-669-5242. the pistolero along with WSM, Check out Lighting 100 100.1 FM nashville. I absolutely love KOKEs format and playlist and I am probably one of the bigger anti-country mainstream guys out there. Outlaw Country comes close every once in a while or even doing a radio show on that channel every once in a while. Thats not a bad playlist by any means, at least if the sample here is anything to go by. Banjobison I live in Columbus, OH. Former Ranch Fan March 5, 2017 @ To attempt to analyze just how dramatic or marginal the format change of 95.9 The Ranch has been, Saving Country Music logged a roughly 2 1/2 to 3-hour segment of The Ranchs playlist on Saturday evening that included 54 total songs. The music list looks pretty good to me.The only thing I see to get offended by is someone threatening violence for playing whatever music. the pistolero As for the mainstream country songs, What Was I Thinking is pretty BroCountry to me and has zero nostalgia-factor. Many people do not realize that radio is a business. The only reason Music Row hasnt moved on is because theyre relied on radio for so long, they know no other way forward. NO DIVERSITY ! The recent playlists have been flat out awful. Depending on my mood its sometimes what I even want to hear. You just alienated your core fan base because you want to pick up that listener who scrolls looking for a song that is popular, then changes the channel when anything they have never heard before comes on. While its true that there is a lot of bad mainstream country out there, the truth is that you will hear a lot of bad Americana/real country/Texas country/ etc etc if a station plays nothing but that for long enough. Jamey Johnson That Lonesome Song, Former Ranch Fan March 5, 2017 @ Terms of the new contract weren't released. Sellers said as Lindell spoke over him. In 2011, four Real Housewives Of New York were fired: Jill Zarin, Cindy Barshop, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, and Alex McCord. If it is, then maybe they pat themselves on the back and go about their business. March 6, 2017 @ It looks like they took alot of stuff off of my personal Playlist. Man Trigger this is really the nut of the whole issue right now . I really wish people would think outside the box sometimes I completely understand why The Ranch added different music to its playlist Radio stations HAVE to play to their audience If a station can add a few more songs to draw a larger listener base, that is more revenue when they go to clients for advertising. Stop dragging great songs down just because they had mainstream success. It could be good for the station for growth while also being good for the fans and its not as though they are playing the bad mainstream stuff either. Heather White | Austin TX IHeartMedia and Cumulus are up to their ears in debt with no plan of how to get out of it, streaming continues to take market share, and the music sucks. 10:44 pm. She decided to speak out about this after a post Natalie put . ATX Tiger Paul White advocates heavily for children on the Autism spectrum. Ive got to disagree with you there. "It had become really toxic with a . 5:09 am. Steven Swinney On the other hand, if adding just a few songs from the mainstream entices more mainstream-oriented fans to the radio station, and the station sticks to their guns and only keeps those mainstream spins to a minimum, it could potentially result in a sum positive for all the independent and Texas artists featured regularly on The Ranch by exposing them to an entirely new demographic. But They play Sturgill more than anyone in Texas. Former "Real Housewives of New York" star Heather Thomson spills all about her co-stars Sonja Morgan and Ramona Singer, and explains she quit because show is "contrived." She reappeared in July after marrying her husband, Thomas Zban, in June. A situation like the above issue, where within a ten song rotation you would get a Maren Morris/Eric Church/Ricky Skaggs/Luke Bryan/Turnpike Troubadours mix? White joined then-Clear Channel Christian AC KPEZ/Austin in June 2006 before segueing to Country sister KASE in 2008 (CAT 8/22/08).She and co-hosts Bama Brown and Rob Mason made the move to KVET in 2013, and The Bama, Rob And Heather . 8:29 am. When they announced it, I figured it was a godsend. Id take a little Seger & Paisley any day along with my Jinks, Eady, Sweeney & Troubadors. On July 13th, Heather Moore posted on her official TV Facebook that July 9th was her last night with 3TV. According to Mark Long of the Associated Press, the decision shows how bad the relationship between coach and school had become over the past years. Even though Heather disappeared from the news desk of American Agenda on Newsmax TV, her fans assumed she had left the channel, but on July 12, 2022, she made a comeback to the desk. Speaking as someone who is a college radio DJ for WNIA Radio, it kind of sucks to hear about something like this. I know that the Ranch still plays way more good music than most other stations. An insider told E! I mainly listen to the radio while Im driving anyway. 2:37 pm. The Rebel app was often glitchy, often repetitive, and didnt have a live person in studio a lot of the time (which I think contributed to the glitchy and repetitiveness). March 6, 2017 @ Take Eli Young Bands Small Town Kid. First, Eli Young was totally a product of Texas country that then moved on to Nashville. I listen to The Ranch because I cannot stand what passes for country today, the formulaic P.U. Dr. Heather White is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the area of dairy cattle nutritional physiology. TRuck, Whiskey, & women I love all three, but you can only take that as the theme of your music for so long, not to mention that these ignorant fools are mixing in Rock & Roll guitar licks, the rock rhythms from the drummers, and guys who wear Cowboy hats like they a part of a uniform. Or are you still deflecting that question? I use Outlaw Nations app a lot as well, although it seems glitchy at times and seems to get a bit repeative after a while. Their Night format is all Texas Red Dirt along with Sturg and many of the alt country/Americana artists. But what can you expect from corporate radio, especially when the ratings are there? Pathetic. News in May that the pregnancy made it "somewhat unlikely" that Morris would return as a series regular on "Glee" for Season 5 , "however it's almost certain . And those two songs, highlighted in red below, which are My Church by Maren Morris, and Vice by Miranda Lambert, are both critically acclaimed singles from women, both of which were nominated for Best Country Song at the 2017 Grammy Awards, both artists are from Texas, and both arguably represent some of the best music in the mainstream. I wouldnt listen to a station like that here in Minnesota. March 5, 2017 @ Julian Spivey In 2014 I learned about Lubbocks 105.3 The Red Dirt Rebel, and their mobile app/online streaming. ***UPDATE: According to some listeners, The Ranch has also added much more classic rock than what was played on the previous format. I understand that Internet stations are easier, but *someone* has to care about the local airwaves also. Its a shame that radio stations like The Ranch arent duplicated all across the country, and with the increased popularity of independent country, perhaps that will happen someday. I worked for a Country independent in Kentucky that wouldnt let me play Kentucky Headhunters because they didnt TEST well in SEATTLE!!! YouTube, & other streaming sources let you be your own program director. Trigger hit it on the head with the whole slippery slope analogy. In Nashville its WSM AM 650. If we loyal listeners wanted Seger and Paisley wed have either lobbied for them or made a Pandora station. The biggest problem with mainstream country radio is that its nearly all pop/bro/AC country..essentially its a diversity problem. There is no excuse for Tyler Farr, Ill give you that. And even in there, you have a 28-year-old song from Garth Brooks, a 17-year-old and 10-year-old song from Gary Allan that may have been in the rotation before the change, a 14-year-old Dierks Bentley song, a 13-year-old Brad Paisley song written by Bill Anderson, a single from Kacey Musgraves that bombed on country radio a few years ago, and a song from King George Strait. Sometimes you know the artist, sometimes you dont. I understand, to many Texas country and Americana fans, Brad Paisley still represents putting ketchup on a $48.00 steak. only they arent asking for input from listeners, they just changed it. Bryan/College Station TX specifically.. 2:44 pm. The nearest big commercial FM country station is KATM in Modesto, which is heard from some eastern parts of the Bay Area all the way to Yosemite. If it works, it could cause a domino affect with a lot of these stations, and The Ranch could decide to put even more mainstream / classic rock in the mix. Thank you so much . The problem is that for the last 10 years or so we had a BETTER (in my opinion) radio station than what we are peft with now. Cool to see another fellow northern Ohio person on here! Correction. March 5, 2017 @ Aaron Watson Clear Isabel I also can kind of understand WHY the station might be feeling pressure to add more listeners with some recognizable mainstream artists in the mix. Country maybe. In fact, all the commotion is likely to draw a bigger crowd of folks tuning in to see what all the complaining is about. They play everything. I think that 95.9 had a lot to do with stations beginning to play local talent because the Ranch proved it could be done and that people would listen. As a listener, your voice needs to be heard, you need to support the stations advertisers and by all means stick with them. 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