I've been listening to this station for about 5 years, and while the music quality is mediocre (too recent, female, and pop) it hasn't really changed, and it's still better than most of the other stations. What has changed is the quality of the ads. I know they believe the audience is conservative, because they used to run ads for gun stuff all the time. Note that I say used to. It's been months if not longer since I've heard a gun ad. I'm not aware of any offical policy change, but the absence of gun ads is conspicuous. They advertise vaxtard shit, and while all the stations do that this station seems to do it more, though I may be biased since I listen to this one the most.
What really got me thinking about this is their ads pushing shit like mental health, self care, and of course therapy. There's nothing wrong with mental health and self care of course, but self care in particular is used by leftists to justify lazy and shitty behavior, and of course therapy in current year is nothing more than feminist brainwashing. It's interesting that all this "wellness" stuff never includes eating better, exercising, or making life improvements that solve the root cause of any mental health problems. Nope, just stay miserable and allow commie grifters to profit from it.
It was probably bought by Iheartradio. They own almost all channels after they merged with Clear Channel.
Big business is surface level woke so all channels will have woke shit on top of the local ads
I was just going to post this. Radio/TV has been super controlled forever, and now explicitly controlled by iheartradio etc. You can only get on the airwaves with permission from the fcc at a minimum.
>too recent, female, and pop
>mental health, self care, and of course therapy
Sounds like the ads are right on target for the demographic that would still be listening at this point in "country" music's trajectory.
Their only saving grace is that they do still play older stuff. It's always a treat when "Check Yes or No" comes on.
Stop listening to them. Send them an email telling them why. Make fun of any of your friends that are still listening to it.
Pop "country" is an abomination.
Did the station get bought by chance? Tons of radio stations are owned by just a few big corporations. Of course you know they are going to tow the party line.
Not that I'm aware of, but I'll look into it. Dropping the gun stuff is the biggest sign that it's a possibility.
Seems like country music industry is trying to cater to a different audience. Although at the station level it could be different. Country music station where I live doesn’t play the older stuff so I rarely listen. I do remember ads that catered to a more conservative audience but have no idea what it’s like now
Modern country feels like pop music from 20 years ago with a cowboy hat on. Give it another decade and it will be be hip hop about rolling away from the po-lice in the pickup truck with some whiskey to go pick up dem hoes.
You made me laugh out loud. I’m weird though because my favorite country singer is Hank Sr and I listen to stuff from 20s to 90s (bluegrass too). Chris Stapleton, Tony Jackson, and Darius Rucker are to only newer ones I listen to. Or when I see a young country artist with a classic sound who doesn’t crap on their fans I’ll support them
Sturgill Simpson is another modern one I like. In addition to more traditional country sound, he also had an album he made called "Sound and Fury", which he came up with while high on painkillers and in addition to a very unique sound he worked with an anime studio in Japan to create a whole "animated album" for the songs.
Here is an example of my favorite one off of the album.
Other than that, I have mostly drifted into metal, most modern country I pick and chose by the song while still liking the older 90's stuff, and beyond that say Alan Jackson is still right.
Thanks! Will check him out
They kinda already sing about that.
I no longer listen to anything while driving. It stimulates conversation with the people you are with. I definitely do not miss 20 minutes of commercials and the same 8 heavy rotation songs per hour.
Driving alone? I've come to appreciate the road noise it's made driving less of a chore to me, but YMMV.
My job has me driving for a significant part of my 10 hour shifts. I've been trying to figure out how to get podcasts without ads which would be ideal. What I can't deal with is that server side injected shit right in the middle of the podcast. From what i can tell the best way is to find a podcast on YouTube and use a program to swipe them, and figuring out how to use the program isn't trivial.
It's not that hard. In cmd.exe:
yt-dlp.exe -f m4a http://theURL
Since youtube has versions with just the audio.
If you get ffmpeg.exe and ffprobe.exe (separate download bc patents) and put them in the same folder you can just do "yt-dpl.exe -x URL" to download a video and extract the audio. It can even use sponsorblock to remove ad segments, but that's a little harder.
Thanks. Command line stuff doesn't come natural to me but I can usually figure it out. I just hadn't found the time and motivation.
Check out Stacher, it's a GUI for yt-dl and can integrate ffmpeg and ffprobe as well.
They destroyed small businesses in America. There are less clients to get on the radio. Inversely the state suddenly started spending a lot more on advertising in the gap.
Anyways.. call up that gun store and ask them "why don't you advertise on KUNT anymore?" It's a 50/50.. but you might actually get an answer.
I've noticed this too. I hate listening to the radio but my wife turned it on once while driving our toddler around and now he begs for "song" every time we get in the car.
I hear ads for Mental Health (TM) and covid vaccines all the time.
It's been the lefts strategy for a while now to buy local conservative newspapers and TV/radio stations and turn them into leftist propaganda.
It's possible they've lost a bunch of ad accounts and are running PSAs to fill time. Happens pretty often in the radio industry.
They're silently what?
Pozzing. As in infected with HIV. HIV-positive. Pozzed.