It just blows out the listenership and thereby justifies more of whatever the change was. Fuck this. Play alot of Alt country as well as Sturgill, Isbell, Margo Price etc. 10:03 pm. Heather Dubrow starred on Bravo 's hit show from Seasons 7 to 11. I agree with both of you as well. There are enough classic rock stations everywhere. Also Dierks as best of mainstream, hahahhaa, he used to be, but not sure anybody has sold out harder lately. He got started in radio at 15, and it was always a passion for him. It also alleged that publishing company Simon Books is likely to get a portion of Betty White's inheritance. The biggest problem with mainstream country radio is that its nearly all pop/bro/AC country..essentially its a diversity problem. There were negotiations, and based on those negotiations, they . I know it gets talked about a lot on here, but its still stunning to see it on a written out playlist. I started my whole foray into this Texas music scene more than a decade ago with Pandora introducing me to artists like Jason Boland & The Stragglers, it snowballed from there, including with help of this website introducing me to artists like Cody Jinks and Mike and the Moonpies. Granted, Im also our only country music DJ, so I get why people dont tune into the station all that often :p. Personally I like the above playlist, it represents a nice balance, a coming together of many different worlds that all exist under the country music world if you will. IF this is the case, and IF they dont slowly creep away from the Texas country thing altogether, then perhaps it will help. Showbiz Cheatsheet reported in 2020 that Tamra Judge also thought . No Stones? In this sample, no Sunny Sweeney, no Bri Bagwell, no Sarah Hobbs. Ive got to disagree with you there. As far as the playlist goes Id kill to have that kind of station in Pittsburgh. Fox News has fired Fox & Friends First host Heather Childers after she showed up to work sick and put workers at risk of COVID-19. Dr. Heather White is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the area of dairy cattle nutritional physiology. As a listener, your voice needs to be heard, you need to support the stations advertisers and by all means stick with them. Ive done articles on the subject. She is a radio morning show host, a lawyer and mom to two special needs children. According to a new report, Heather is being accused of walking away from the show amid production on season 13 after her plan to act as a moral ally for the series' first Black cast member, Eboni K. Williams, backfired. For years, radio station 95.9 The Ranch based in Ft. Worth, TX has been a bastion for fans of true country music, Texas country, Red Dirt, Americana, and country classics that are so often missing or never even given a chance on corporate country radio stations. Plus I work in a factory, so the radio only picks up like 2-3 stations. I wonder if you may have missed some songs on the playlist that could also be against the old format. 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 . Even when times were good, there was a Billy Ray Cyrus, Rascal Flatts, or Restless Heart stinking up the airwaves. Look, Saving Country Music loves to find instances where companies and radio stations screw up and undervalue the independent/traditional country fan. 3:52 pm. Quite serves me well too. 12:47 pm, If anyone is interested in checking out the previous hours playlist, you can pull it up online, http://player.listenlive.co/48801/en/songhistory, Alexander Grant Recently, TV Guide served up their latest Mega Buzz spoiler chat session,and revealed new Grey's Anatomy season 10 spoiler dish. Aaron Watson Clear Isabel Announcing at Texas Stars games was almost a fluke. You go out of your way to avoid fast food restaurants try to support places that offer completely healthy , nutritional options , equally or more affordable dishes, better atmosphere , better service , restaurants that set a good example of healthy eating for your kids .then one day they close ALL of those places and turn them all into Macdonalds . Today the music is garbage, hell! #1. She decided to speak out about this after a post Natalie put . But that song is 12 years old. If so, hopefully the sharks smelling mainstream blood will win. Depending on the amount of classic rock compared to previously, the percentage of change could be greater than 81.5% , but this would NOT be because of pop or mainstream country. Radio stations trying to play anything and everything will find listeners who only need music ( ads and DJ s ) as a form of company ..a minor distraction .playing in the background at the shop , playing in the garage , around the house while they vacuum ,playing in the van dropping kids at school .. etc.. How many times have we mentioned the lack of female artists in the Texas country scene? It occurred to me if commercial radio had the same kind of diversity as internet radio did, I probably wouldnt it mind it so much. Just Remember what RWH says What you wont find up in Heaven are Radio tries to create an attractive vehicle youll love but it never gets down the road until you put some gas in the gas tank (aka the money from advertising). She did not elaborate if she would be joining another station or something away from TV news. Thank you so much . I think this is exactly the playlist I would want transplanted to my local radio station. Your email address will not be published. Otherwise, its all your usual suspects. 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. People hear Garth Brooks and throw their hands up, but Much Too Young is a 28-year-old song, and was a traditional country semi-hit before Garth was even a star. I absolutely love some of the stuff I hear on The Rebel that I wont hear anywhere else. They replaced the Red Dirt pop with some of the better mainstream stuff. At least the listeners dont have to pay to listen. However, in 2021, serial killer Ryan Chamberlain received a letter from a Heather W, who claimed to be his biggest fan. At least I would have a little more respect for them. 9 Mar 2008. 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. 7:16 am. Sometimes I have a hard time taking it serious though when they play a stray Luke Bryan song. I banned the Ranch a year ago when I counted that out of a playlist of 200 songs, they played TEN by women. Heather Childers is no longer with Fox News, having parted ways at the network after being off the air since March. But I get why people are pissed about it, and given the degree of anger about it, itll be interesting to see what happens, Farmer Brian It looks like they took alot of stuff off of my personal Playlist. That club will eventually bite the dust because it cant find and isnt appealing ( respecting ) a consistent patron base. It does work. Maybe one of the three local country stations could implement it. I didnt take it as a critique or insult at all, I took it as a question. Trigger I had to stop listening to WYRK a few years ago because I could only take so much FGL and Blake Shelton. As far as I can tell its core audience has become less rural since the end of the neo trad movement in the early 1990s. 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. hoptowntiger94 As well, in late 2019 Heather and Erica Schrull started the project "2 Car Girls Cruise Cali", a month-long road trip along California's most . According to a statement from her spokesperson, Tom will leave the show by year's end because of "creative differences" with the show's executive producer David Shaughnessy. True country fans, especially ones that have been listening to The Ranch for years as a safe harbor from pop country, are so diametrically opposed to mainstream music, they would rather hear rock or pop invade their radio station than even the best of what country radios mainstream stations play, ..especially if The Ranch format tweak is successful luring in new ears. Just realized there had been a format change when the Lumineers came on. 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. No matter what some will complain. The list you posted is very similar to the mix one hears on Outlaw. Austin Lee Its hard to please everyones tastes, and thats why I try to balance everything out. Fucking eh. Speaking as someone who is a college radio DJ for WNIA Radio, it kind of sucks to hear about something like this. Why. Hell, Id kill for one here in Nashville! I dont like these changes, but if the Ranch starts sucking Im sure all the Texas country fans (and me) will listen elsewhere. Honest music DESERVES airplay and we all deserve to be respected as adults by stations with the reach and power to define culture . I think KOKE has really slid since its reincarnation. 9:48 am. (Dane played Dr. Mark Sloan from season 2 to season 9.) Carnie Man ***UPDATE: According to some listeners, The Ranch has also added much more classic rock than what was played on the previous format. No concrete reason was given for the other . KOKEs is subtle and based on your analysis, The Ranchs is mirroring KOKEs Nash select playlist. Shayne keeps saying this is what their listeners have been asking for. Id rather hear Josh Turners Home Town Girl than anything by CCR when Im listening to what I think is supposed to be a country station. The ones they gain from this switch to mainstream will eventually demand even more of the Tyler Farr, Dierks, Miranda Lambert crap to where it wont be distinguishable from 99.5 or 96.3. Same deal as when commercials come on during the Super Bowl. And yes, my labeling of back catalog mainstream singles is up for interpretation, but if a song is 30-years-old, then its a classic if by not other definition than the date. I appreciated The Ranch as an alternative to 105.3 The Red Dirt Rebel because I could hear Corb Lund (Im sure hes out of rotation now), Jason Isbell, and Sturgill Simpson on The Ranch. 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? Im gonna be in Dallas next week and now have something to tune in. But there is something to be said for pragmatism in trying to build a wider fan base behind independent artists. To boycott the station is a sure fire way to make sure Texas Country will not be heard in the future. If they keep with this format change, then they really need to change the name and get rid of their current slogan of The sound of Texas. Trigger hit it on the head with the whole slippery slope analogy. I added other songs that were certainly not mainstream country in style, lyric and formula regardless of artist, so long as they fit what might be termed the gritty and raw feeling that is Texas Music and Red Dirt Music. Your band is booked as a country band this week following last weeks Pink Floyd tribute act following last months Top 40 dance band . I have deleted this station from my preset list and will now stream other stations like KOKE or The Range. It can be a fun change of pace. Heather was the leader of the Heathers clique and . Angelo Rinaldi "It had become really toxic with a . Program what works in your town/area/section of the state. Then it seemed like 6 months later, it was back to Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, & The Doors. Im seconding that thought here in Southern IL. Sturgill Simpson, Kacey Musgraves, Jason Isbell, Waylon, Willie, Merle, Nikki Lane, Miranda Lambert, Uncle Tupelo and so much more! If thats all I tuned in for, I would be angry too. Theres no Bro-Country, no Florida Georgia Line, no indecent country singles that are an embarrassment to the format, even though none of them may be the favorites of Texas country and independent fans. Im with you Orgirl1. By my count 18 of the last 40 songs played on The Ranch, as of 1:30PM CST, wouldnt have been played last Sunday., Shayne Hollinger 3:06 pm. 11:28 am. Heather White joined the show in 2008 and the trio moved to KVET-FM in 2013. 12:30 pm. and I have listened religiously for the last 13 years. Create a tent above the pot with a plastic bag to give the plant humidity, encouraging rooting. This might be a reflection of the sad state of mainstream country, but I would rather hear Seger and Mellencamp on FM radio, than the likes of Taylor Swift, Kelsea Ballerini, Florida Georgia Line, and Luke Bryan. Im originally from the same area (20 mins north of Mansfield) where 101.3 WNCO plays and it was always my favorite. Does it suck that The Ranch has acquiesced and started putting some mainstream country stuff in their rotation? 6:03 pm. And I also recall that political and cultural conservatives seemed to be a big part of mainstream countrys fan base in the years after 9/11, but less so today. hoptowntiger94 Dont bother with their own app because its terrible. 1:30 pm. 6:19 pm. This is also why I think corporate mainstream radio is doomed in the next two years. Unfortunately, I do not have a snapshot of the old playlist pre format change to make a direct comparison, but someone correct me if Im wrong in saying it was not out of the ordinary to hear Lynyrd Skynrd or other classic rock previously. TEN. though. Listeners of The Ranch have a legitimate concern that it might only be one or two songs an hour right now added from mainstream playlists, but it could go to one quarter, then a third, then half, and completely flip some day if the incremental moves are effectivesort of mission creep if you will, but on your radio dial. You are fake news. Former Ranch Fan Dr. White's research program focuses on the health and nutrition of dairy cows during the transition period and is centered on hepatic and whole-animal nutrient partitioning and metabolism. All Ive ever wanted was a seat at the table (including award shows). Sometimes you know the artist, sometimes you dont. Read the comments here and elsewhere. If they want to play classics from current mainstream artists, they should stick to songs like Should Have Been a Cowboy or Where the Green Grass Grows.. There are much worse places for country radio than Texas. Coaltrain Dont see how theyre putting The Rolling Stones in that category with no complaints. (as im typing this, Marshall Tucker band is playing, Luke Bryan was before that, no one is blowing up our phone lines bitching) No matter what you do in radio, theres always gonna be someone who is unhappy, but you can not program a station for just one small group. Brent Cobb Black Crow They recently redid a majority of their KOKE promo plugs. Im fine with Miranda. Im listening to KOKE-FM as I type this in fact. Austin radio station KVET 98.1 has signed its morning team Bama Brown, Rob Mason and Heather White to a multi-year contract extension. Make a hole in the soilless mix with your finger, or optionally, a pencil. Occasionally you hear a mainstream song that fits in wellusually around ten years old or more. Cristy Lee, a car enthusiast that had . Orgirl1 Cool to see another fellow northern Ohio person on here! She is the deceased leader of the most popular and powerful clique at Westerburg High known as The Heathers. Out of the 54 songs, 10 could be considered either current mainstream country hits, OR back catalog mainstream hits. Former Ranch Fan 7:53 pm, Just to clarify, put of that list only 10 are new to the playlist, Former Ranch Fan RitaBallou Whiskey Myers Stone According to the program director, it was about 10%, and that has now been corroborated independently by numerous studies.. They played Miranda Lambert on The Ranch before any recent change. Theyre not trying to appeal to everyone, theyre targeting people that buy brand new full size trucks every two years, drink copious amounts of corporate beer, and pretend theyre from the country when they really live in the suburbs. She said she will now have her nights available for her family. it gets to be much more than 10%. This is partly because for years The Ranch has been such a pristine gem, staunchly ignoring current trends and Top 40 hits, so even including one Dierks Bentley song every other hour is an affront to the entire institution to these listeners. I welcome a slight change in format to fill the airplay with really good music, even if some are from the Nashville scene. Sorry if my tone came across as weird. This format sounds very similar to BOB 106.1 in Minnesota. It runs just like a car. As long as they arent playing FGL or Sam Hunt type music and they continue to play mostly Texas and independent music good for them! I was wondering when youd cover this issue. Correction. Even after the news broke, the White Stripes stuck to their story, insisting that the . Required fields are marked *, Notify me of follow-up comments via e-mail. I just wish they would come right out and call this what it really is, a money grab. I appreciated The Ranch as an alternative to KOKE-FM because I wouldnt ever hear Dierks Bentley, Jake Owen, Josh Turner, Little Big Town, Easton Corbin, Brett Eldredge, etc. But lets be honest here about the motivations behind this format change by 95.9 The Ranch: MONEY. And the storylines were sort of, you know, heading in different directions. Adding the opry a few nights a week is pretty cool. Testing out of market?? This is the silent majority. Below Deck fans are disappointed and furious at Chase because she lied. I understand, to many Texas country and Americana fans, Brad Paisley still represents putting ketchup on a $48.00 steak. #NotMyRanch. But They play Sturgill more than anyone in Texas. "He always had the older, cooler friends, he had to forge the . KILT recently added a short-playlist Texas country HD station (KIKK). I dont believe that for a second. When are they going to get an XM station just for the Texas/Red Dirt scene? Why. To. along with WSM, Check out Lighting 100 100.1 FM nashville. Heather's color is red, symbolizing her power over, not only the Heathers, but the entire Westerburg High student body. 10:37 am. 6:46 pm. The only thing I can add to this conversation is I wish we had something half as good as the updated format up here in Ohio. For independent and Texas country fans who often share a radio with co-workers and are used to hearing these names in the rotation along with Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, and Sam Hunt, theyre probably wondering what all the hubbub is about. It's possible that Heather adopted Lucy without getting married to Daniel but maybe they just consider Heather the mother-figure since she helped raised Lucy. Explore. Its all just just a big funnel for advertising dollars. The actress already had experience in Oscar-winning films, with a major role as Catherine Martin in The Silence of the Lambs (via IMDb).She went on to have parts in major motion films post-Grey's, including Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, which starred Matthew McConaughey, and the Fox News drama Bombshell. Duh? 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.. Im not feeling very positive about this change. Three years after the Yummie founder left her full-time role on the show, she . I also suspect this one is low on the list of station management priorities at the moment. the other day I start a Turnpike Troubadours station on my Amazon app on the fire stick. Its not bad at all. radio three years ago here in the Triad of NC, the above playlist is quite nice, to my eyes though. Heather Childers (@HeatherChilders) April 22, 2022. 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