Uke wrote:
“BTW, been missing you, big guy. You get a real job or somethin’?”
Nah. But have tried to cut down my SDMBoardom somewhat. It was sucking up huge chunks of my life. Furthermore, most of the time I cruise in GQ (not CS with all the sissies). (Kidding, kidding.)
I’ll try to vist more often.
Didn’t the article say that the station that changed from country to Spanish Top 40 registered a zero in the ratings book and is changing formats again, but it’s unlikely that it or any other station in NYC will become a country station soon.
The listenership is there, but it’s believed that getting advertisers for such a station would be hard.
BTW, Imus is on a Sports Talk station, WFAN. Station management and many employees hate it when he plays country music or has country artists perform in the studio as guests. They even got irritated when he wanted to have the Blind Boys of Alabama, who obviously aren’t country, on the show. But Imus knows how to milk that kind of stuff for the sake of the show.
I’ve got to admit that while I enjoy some of the performers he has on, playing the Flatlanders “Waving My Heart Goodbye” as many times as he did is over the line.
Lucky New York! How’s rent out there? I might move.
“CW doesn’t stand for Country & Western. It stands for Cryin’ & Whinin’”
Yea! Now I’ve got something to look forward to when I move there in the fall.
If NYC also lacks Faith-based radio station, the airwaves will be safe for listening once again!
San Francisco has no country music station either. 
The last one changed formats on January 1, 2002. Since I had woken up to country music for the past 10 years, it was a big disappointment to me. Now I don’t have a clue about what’s going on in country.
It does seem strange to me that as the music keeps growing in popularity and record sales, the country music stations are disappearing from big cities. I’d be interested to see sales figures for country music in the big record stores in SF and NYC (although I suppose that if there is no station to hear it, no one’s going to be buying it.)
Maybe this will be a wake up call to Nashville, that country music needs to be shaken up. Embrace the AAA format and realize that the success of the O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack and the interest in bluegrass and folk inspired music may not just be a flash in the pan.
Then again, as long as they can keep raking in bucks from interchangeable “hat acts”, like Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney, and bland pop diva wannabes who are moving away from their country sound, like Faith Hill and Shania Twain, I don’t expect things to change much.
I’m glad that I live in Atlanta now instead of Jersey. No country would upset me… but I got 3 on my car radio dial 
:D.
Just give 'em a few more years. Gaylord Entertainment, which pretty much has a lock on country music has managed to shoot itself in the foot with every business decision it’s made in the past couple of years. (They closed the Opryland amusement park and replaced it with a shopping mall that’s not doing so well. Their next project is a Wonder Twins movie! :eek: :eek: :eek: ) Gaylord is the one who decides who makes it as far as country stars go, once they give up the ghost, the whole industry will go through a massive upheaval and you’ll see some “improvement.” Personally, I can’t think of a better reason to live in NYC. (Yeah, I did pick the wrong place to live!)