Bryan/College Station TX Im a pretty big consumer, I buy albums and singles, I dont use Spotify, and very seldom do I use Pandora anymore. Former Ranch Fan KVET in Austin was a great classic country & TX formatted station that eventually became full or pop country. However, even excluding that point, this still doesnt include Isbell, Simpson, or Haggard. Former Ranch Fan So it could be as high as 90%. "Fox News and Heather Childers have parted ways. Miranda, Musgraves should be included. March 5, 2017 @ They did not play How Bout Them Cowgirls, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Steve Miller Band, Tom Petty, CCR, The Rolling Stones, Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, etc. Dr. Garcia's beautiful smile makeovers are completed in as little as two weeks, in just two visits. 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. Nonetheless, I can appreciate the fans who loved the station because it was unique and played a more narrow, and Texas-oriented playlist. 11:28 am. However, we cant get a radio station to have a playlist like this!!! 8:22 am. KVET in Austin was a great classic country & TX formatted station that eventually became full or pop country. 3:52 pm. She did not elaborate if she would be joining another station or something away from TV news. Adding the opry a few nights a week is pretty cool. They tried this stupid stunt before where they let listeners vote on what they wanted and now they are doing it again. 2 years ago, I wouldnt have even changed the station from KOKE, now, I frequent KVET because they even do classic country better than KOKE. 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. However, I feel like more stations were beginning to copy what the Ranch was trying to do. Like a newspaper, radio sfations depend on ad money to stay afloat. Heather Childers is no longer with Fox News, having parted ways at the network after being off the air since March. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. 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.. I was just trying to make a narrow point that the mainstream artists they did add, at least in regards to this specific playlist, were two women. Overall the playlist looks good to me. In . The question is not what The Ranch is playing now, but where the station could be headed in the future, and if it may entice other Texas country stations to consider similar moves, especially if The Ranch format tweak is successful luring in new ears. That is why its important for listeners to voice their opinions. Someone who listens to The Ranch, because its The Ranch, isnt calling you up asking to play some Zac Brown followed by CCR. After the episode aired, viewers believed the editors mistreated Heather for cutting her out of the episode. 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.. "He always had the older, cooler friends, he had to forge the . I think the easy answer is no, as you have to wonder if mainstream fans would consider that not getting enough of what they want, but I wonder if the mix would actually make a sizable audience happy? 2:44 pm. I have deleted this station from my preset list and will now stream other stations like KOKE or The Range. Much like 92.5 circa 2005-6, when they switched to Lonestar. Honest music DESERVES airplay and we all deserve to be respected as adults by stations with the reach and power to define culture . You can see the playlist on their app without having to listen. Listen To Podcasts That Examine The Passion, Perseverance, And Power Of Black Culture! As for me I think Ill just plug in my phone & play what I want to hear when I want to hear it & go to Lil Reds Longhorn to listen to great music that never gets airtime on the ranch. No Seger? I understand what has happened, I just dont like it. 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 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 only exceptions are a 3 hour show on Saturday mornings where you could hear anything from Cash to LeDoux and a 4 hour request show on Saturday nights. Sometimes you know the artist, sometimes you dont. Nothing makes this more evident than the Texas music they promote. 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. Shayne Hollinger Many would kill to have a radio station like this in their life. Saving Country Music reached out to The Ranch program director Shayne Hollinger for comment on this story, but emails were not immediately responded to. Part and parcel as to why Radio is such a mess anymore. I listen to The Ranch precisely for the uniqueness they are now turning away from. 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Except they would play some older country song Murder on Music Row and make a comment in praise of the songs message right after, and then they would play that very same Thomas Rhett song right in between Aaron Watsons Freight Train and Luke Bells Where Ya Been. I dont understand the benefit in playing something that is disgraceful to the format right in between two songs that other stations normally wouldnt be playing. Being written off Grey's Anatomy certainly didn't stunt Smith's career. Twitter: @heatherbelly Instagram: @heatherbelly TikTok:@Heatherbelly This is my public page. Im about an hour and a half north of you. Sometimes I play more older artists, sometimes I give more younger artists a chance. So yes, they will change the station after Dierks. Cristy Lee, a car enthusiast that had . Make a hole in the soilless mix with your finger, or optionally, a pencil. A station like this would be awesome to have up here. 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. 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. After honoring the tradition of . I couldnt tell you when the last time I listened to it for more than five minutes was. March 5, 2017 @ Thats less than 4% of the playlist. But They play Sturgill more than anyone in Texas. Your email address will not be published. Support Texas ladies on Texas radio! There was a demand for Reckless Kelly, Jason Borland, Ragweed, Jack Ingram etc. I used to stream the Ranch daily. 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. And 1 was a duet with Kacey Musgraves and Josh Abbott. Someone pissed in their favorite cocktail. 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. The irony is Nashville country stations are finally catching onto the popularity of Texas/Red Dirt music and are trying to play catch up. You are fake news. But while there are still a couple of mainstream acts that cater to that demographic (Tim McGraw and Little Big Town come to mind), they seem to be much less predominant in the country genre these days. Id kill to have a local radio station play that setlist. They dont play Carrie Underwood and the only Brad P. song they play was his college football themed song. Previously they had Ray Bensons version of KOKE station identifications, whereas now they have a much more modern or urban identification. So would Townes and Stevie Ray and Buddy Holly and Janis Joplin. Now, if someones dream mish-mash of music consists of some of the above mentioned classic rock, mainstream artists, along with our deeply-loved and respected Texas/Red Dirt artists, and thats what they really want to hear, theres an app for that. Give me Eric Church any day. Dane revealed to EW that he chose to leave Grey's Anatomy for TNT's The Last Ship: "Grey's Anatomy is a world it's not about any one individual actor. Does it suck that The Ranch has acquiesced and started putting some mainstream country stuff in their rotation? March 5, 2017 @ hoptowntiger94 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. March 5, 2017 @ March 5, 2017 @ To that end, Turnpike Troubadours and Stoney LaRue are Red dirt, not Texas. If you have a small niche group of listeners that doesnt grow, the station will eventually be forced to change the format to get more listeners and advertisers. They need more listeners. We have consistently been the #1 station for many years. They have always played The Pistol Annies. Depending on my mood its sometimes what I even want to hear. Look, Saving Country Music loves to find instances where companies and radio stations screw up and undervalue the independent/traditional country fan. Scott S. 12:33 pm. About 15 of them are songs I wouldnt care to hear, Bob Segers Night Moves anyone? Turned on Outlaw Country this morning (while waiting for the Depeche Mode presale to start) and they were playing U2. 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. 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. March 7, 2017 @ And the storylines were sort of, you know, heading in different directions. March 5, 2017 @ I have seen artists get absolutely blasted by core fans for releasing a certain single as I explained above, but there are 10 times the amount of fans that eat it up. Others named . 5:24 pm. Getty Images. Zackary Kephart I spent hours last night culling through complaints from former listeners of The Ranch, and they were all about Dierks Bentley, Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert, and Nashville pop. Even now thats what Im seeing. March 7, 2017 @ 10:39 am. This is only 54 songs among thousands upon thousands of songs on their playlist. 2:13 pm. 7:16 am. I wonder if theyre testing the waters to go full mainstream? March 5, 2017 @ But that song is 12 years old. It turns out that we're going to see intern Heather Brooks,played by actress, Tina Majorino, make her exit from the show in episode 1 as Tina has landed a new gig in a . Austin radio station KVET 98.1 has signed its morning team Bama Brown, Rob Mason and Heather White to a multi-year contract extension. I know that the Ranch still plays way more good music than most other stations. Try hearing the same FGL song 20 times in 8 hours. radio three years ago here in the Triad of NC, the above playlist is quite nice, to my eyes though. None of them are from Texas, and thats only five names out of many off this list that would be excluded. 8:29 am. Austin's All-Time Country Favorites Big Frank. That is why it came as such a shock when late last week the radio station decided to slightly tweak their format, and began to file in songs from a few select mainstream actsartists like Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, and Miranda Lambert. March 6, 2017 @ Listen. Randy Watkins 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. #8 < > Showing 1-8 of 8 comments . 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. Rob: Ken Rice anchored it previously, but I suspect this gig could go to Heather Abraham, David Highfield, Paul Martino or even a reporter or meteorologist. Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Ida Red In a just country music landscape ,far more authentic music and honest , talented artists should be trickling through onto the mainstream playlists rather than the other way around . I realize KOKE plays mainstream and Nashville artists, but at least they are upfront about it and dont bullshit their listeners. Jill Zarin. The way the new/old distinction was made likely has much to do with the count. "We . This is also why I think corporate mainstream radio is doomed in the next two years. In May, the news made rounds that Heather Childers is no longer anchor of Newsmax. Earhardt is allegedly doing her shows from the home of Sean "Softball" Hannity. Im in radio and researched the Texas Music format for years and years. THIS is the bigger issue . In this case, adding more mainstream artists and getting rid of more of what brung you to the dance in the first place. Everything in bold, plus Clapton and the Stones is ten songs, ten songs that plainly dont belong on your station. I stream it as an app for my phone. specifically.. To boycott the station is a sure fire way to make sure Texas Country will not be heard in the future. 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. Sunny Sweeney I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight 2:50 pm. The recent playlists have been flat out awful. Radio is dead. Also the Ranch is supposed to be from Texas/Oklahoma I thought. Trigger, Im curious as to your opinion of who would be the main target audience for mainstream country radio over the next few years. Perfecto! 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. March 5, 2017 @ Since we dont have a baseline, its hard to say if any of the ten mainstream songs would have been included before the change, but some of them probably were. everyone associated that look, the white jacket with dyed blonde hair with Heather, and Cheryl as the little girl from SH1. In 2015 I found The Ranch and their mobile app, it became my primary source of music. They replaced the Red Dirt pop with some of the better mainstream stuff. I welcome a slight change in format to fill the airplay with really good music, even if some are from the Nashville scene. 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