These listeners dont buy music , they dont support tradition , they dont go out to hear live music or support a venue and the only reason they MAY go to a club with a schizophrenic band schedule is that its walking distance from their house . Nothing makes this more evident than the Texas music they promote. Do I want hear Sam Hunt played alongside Wade Bowen? On the other hand, I would be happy as hell if my local station played that playlist. Take Eli Young Bands Small Town Kid. First, Eli Young was totally a product of Texas country that then moved on to Nashville. Heather Childers is no longer with Fox News, having parted ways at the network after being off the air since March. Yes, there is some irony in some Texas / Red Dirt fans complaining about pop in the format. Then it seemed like 6 months later, it was back to Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, & The Doors. March 5, 2017 @ Testing out of market?? Former Ranch Fan The big test for The Ranch may not be right now, but in a few weeks when they find out if the format tweak is effective. Brent Cobb Black Crow The actress has played Sarah Trevanion on the ITV1 drama since 2006, but viewers will see her make . Carnie Man I wouldnt insult my knowledge of the Texas scene. That was the impact of great music & a great station had now that impact is somewhat diluted like adding coke to 20 yr old whiskey, you can do it but why? 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. Instead of classic rock why not play the likes of Mark Chesnutt (who put out a great album last year), Tracy Byrd, Clint Black, Clay Walker etc. I live in Columbus and 92.3 WCOL is pretty terrible but also an iHeart station so that explains it. Im not mad, Im let down. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. Eldon Thacker I gave up on f.m. Quite serves me well too. There were negotiations, and based on those negotiations, they . 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. Mason headed out to the then-Cedar Park Center for the ribbon cutting and announcement of the first event, a George Strait concert. According to the program director, it was about 10%, and that has now been corroborated independently by numerous studies.. 2:53 pm. to be played on the radio and now more stations are playing artists like them. 7:16 am. 5:30 pm. I knew where to find those other artists if I wanted to listen to them. Below Deck fans are disappointed and furious at Chase because she lied. That shits messed up. Heather has some big news this morning. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. March 5, 2017 @ Dr. Heather White is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the area of dairy cattle nutritional physiology. Theres a reason we dont like Keith Urban, its not the style of music we like, just as someone who loves Keith Urban isnt likely to get excited about Cody Jinks. Red dirt, not shitty EDM artists selling out, referring to themselves as country. Also, thats not what anyones complaining about. 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. Speaking as someone who is a college radio DJ for WNIA Radio, it kind of sucks to hear about something like this. 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. it gets to be much more than 10%. Support Texas ladies on Texas radio! The only music station I listen to on my hour plus commute in the afternoon. I live on the outskirts of the San Francisco Bay Area. After the episode aired, viewers believed the editors mistreated Heather for cutting her out of the episode. "She started making excuses about why she couldn't show up for shoots," an insider told Page Six on June 9, not that . Owned and operated by LKCM Radio Group, with its studios located in Ft. Worths Sundance Square, The Ranch is one of those rare gems that actually plays what they want to play. 3:52 pm. It does work. I get that. Garnering a devout following in Ft. Worth and beyond via their web stream, The Ranch is considered an institution of the independent country world for the scores of devoted listeners who tune in every day, and the artists who enjoy airtime that most other country radio stations would never consider giving to such artists. THIS DOESNT HAPPEN , thank God With more musical options available to listeners than ever before WHY does mainstream country radio have to be so narrow and mind-numbingly generic ? These are songs/artist that weve go requests from from regular Ranch listeners over the last three years. The point is, the song doesnt fit their original format. They may give the station a listen because of Dierks, Miranda and Maren Morris and go on to discover TPT, Sturgill and Cody Jinks. Austin, Texas Area Bama, Rob & Heather in the Morning on KASE 101 at Clear Channel . However, even excluding that point, this still doesnt include Isbell, Simpson, or Haggard. If you take that into account, along with the clearly more mainstream country, and the other genres (where do the Lumineers fall?) Although . Someone who stops their radio dial because they hear Zac Brown Band is just as likely to start it again when Cody Johnson comes on afterwards. After honoring the tradition of . Read the comments here and elsewhere. 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. However my complaint with KOKE goes beyond even the music scheduling. 9 Mar 2008. The irony is Nashville country stations are finally catching onto the popularity of Texas/Red Dirt music and are trying to play catch up. I find this change to be extremely disappointing and hypocritical; and their excuses for doing it are total bullshit. 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 Former Ranch Fan Out of the 54 songs, 10 could be considered either current mainstream country hits, OR back catalog mainstream hits. You can see the playlist on their app without having to listen. As soon as they play a Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Cole Swindell, or Tommy Rhett song, stick a fork in it. Your email address will not be published. Trigger hit it on the head with the whole slippery slope analogy. and I have listened religiously for the last 13 years. Back to The Red Dirt Rebel as soon as they get their stream fixed. Barf. Its still a hell of a lot better of an experiment than KSCS playing Ed Sheeran and Kanye West. 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? Boy did that go over your head. Traditional country fans have Dwight Yoakam, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Jerry Jeff Walker. Heather Storm's Departure from Garage Squad. 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. You tube and itunes serves me well. I hope the Ranch loyal listeners that are upset with the format change will come back around. I was wondering when youd cover this issue. Lets all eat Penguin meat . March 5, 2017 @ Even with a height of 5ft 7ins, Heather became a model due to her well-toned body and vital statistics of 32-24-35. Radio is a dying business model in America, and in the very near future may only exist more as a novelty, and for ultra niche audiences like The Ranch appeals to right now. Heather White is part of the "Bama, Rob, and Heather" morning show on 98.1 KVET. Thats what Nashville radio does, barely eking out Jon Pardi or William Michael Morgan. and the folks at Galleywinter are sticking up for the change because they have to maintain those radio relationships I would probably do the same thing. Heck, even streaming Radio Texas Live on Saturday nights would be great, EW in DFW 12:34 pm. This is a playlist designed to bring in a larger audience in an attempt to reel in some outsider that have no idea that The Ranch even exists. Whiskey Myers Stone Here it is: http://www.newslanglubbock.com/the-ranch-double-dipping-in-texas-music-americana-nashville-country-etc-angers-fans-but-why/, Former Ranch Fan 10:28 pm. Heather Childers (@HeatherChilders) April 22, 2022. March 5, 2017 @ 10:44 pm. Maybe Im reaching here but couldnt this be a good thing for the artists and music that these people support? The problem Texans have is not that The Ranch promoted and took pride in not playing that stuff, now they are backing off that stance but still flying the Texas music flag. Ill be searching for a replacement. (Abuser of punctuation). 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. That's where the "Bama" nickname came from. 6:38 pm. #NotMyRanch. We have a very loyal base of Americana/Alt-Country fans up here. Married to the love of my life: @chris_p_ratt Instagram: @heatherbelly . since Im not a pretentious hickster snob, I wouldnt mind that they put sort of decent mainstream country (no bro country thou) and maybe classic rock songs a little bit here and there in the playlist to make some other audiences to feel welcome, hey we might get them into some really great music they havent discovered yet! 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. 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. I was hearing some complaints and tried to look into it a little further. So that theory is total bs, in my opinion. Just saw Sturgill S. and Jason I. on this list. They recently redid a majority of their KOKE promo plugs. But its still worth noting that 98% of the country would kill for a playlist like this from a local radio station. An option Ive come to enjoy is Outlaw Nation. Overall the playlist looks good to me. March 5, 2017 @ And like any good music fan, theyd just go take a leak when Dierks Bentley came on. Stop dragging great songs down just because they had mainstream success. This comes from someone that has listened to the Ranch from 5am till 3-4 pm 5 days a week for past 10+ years. Im the odd one who is okay with the new artists being added. Country program directors and Nashville record executives. If you like the change enjoy & support the Ranch & if your dont vote with you feet stop going to remotes & Ranch sponsored shows, stop posting on the wall & facebook. 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Zackary Kephart 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 . Its also a fair argument to say that by giving precious spins to major mainstream country stars and taking them away from Texas country and Americana acts, your robbing these artists, however incrementally, of one of the few radio outlets they have for their music. There are much worse places for country radio than Texas. But I do have a life and didnt want to spend my entire Saturday/Sunday compiling a 200-plus playlist. March 5, 2017 @ (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. The other possibility is for animal rights organizations, the ASPCA and such. 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