Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country and western music hits from past decades.
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38-446: A certain extent, exists, it is not necessarily universal. "Classic" era country artists such as Kenny Rogers , Willie Nelson , and Dolly Parton continued producing hits well into the 2000s that received mainstream country radio airplay (sometimes in collaborations). Other artists from the era that did not continue to receive wider radio airplay after their heyday maintained strong cult followings from fans of all ages; an example of this
57-468: A fiercely loyal audience, classic country stations often struggle to find advertisers. While advertisers are primarily interested in the 18 to 49-year-old demographic age group, classic country usually attracts an older audience. For perhaps that reason, country music fans are often (stereotypically) divided into two camps: The 1990 dividing line coincided with a change in Billboard magazine's rules for what
76-470: A heavy complement of older programming such as Pop! Goes the Country , Porter Wagoner 's programs, and The Wilburn Brothers Show , along with newer performances from heritage acts. CMT Pure Country , the all-music counterpart to CMT, relegated its classic country programming to a daily half-hour block known as "Pure Vintage" before abandoning classic country altogether by 2015. (Complicating matters somewhat
95-1017: A radio station in Alaska is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Classic country The radio format specializes in hits from the 1950s through the 1980s, and focus primarily on innovators and artists from country music's Golden Age, including Hank Williams , Patsy Cline , George Jones , Kitty Wells , Charley Pride , Tammy Wynette , Johnny Cash , Waylon Jennings , Willie Nelson , Johnny Paycheck , Kenny Rogers , Emmylou Harris , Dolly Parton , and Merle Haggard , along with English and Spanglish language songs from 1960s to 2000s Tejano and New Mexico music artists like Freddy Fender , Johnny Rodriguez , Little Joe , Freddie Brown , and Al Hurricane . It can also include recurrent 1980s to 2000s hits from neotraditional country and honky-tonk artists such as George Strait , Reba McEntire , Toby Keith , Garth Brooks , Alan Jackson , and Randy Travis . The format resulted largely from changes in
114-409: A station's listenership. (The formula reincorporated singles sales, both physical and digital, in 2012, but included airplay on non-country stations, thus giving pop-crossover singles a major advantage.) The 1990 change had quick effects: many musicians who had had consistent success on the chart through the late 1980s suddenly dropped out of the top 40 by 1991. Although this 1990-era dividing line, to
133-466: Is Johnny Cash , who remains in high regard many years after his 2003 death. Artists who began their careers in the 1980s, near the dividing line of the classic/modern divide, enjoy followings among both audiences; examples include George Strait and Reba McEntire , both of whom (as of 2014) are still active and performing hit songs. Neotraditional country , a style of country that arose in the 1980s, continues to produce hit songs and artists that draw from
152-525: Is a relative lack of music videos for country music songs before the 1980s.) Classic country remains a popular block format on mainstream country stations, usually on weekends as an example Classic Country Saturday Night on stations KMDL & KNGT in the Acadiana area of Louisiana . As is the case with rock music (where classic rock , mainstream rock , and active rock all have varying amounts of older music), country music stations also can vary in
171-616: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages KAYO (FM) KAYO is a classic country formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Wasilla, Alaska , serving the Mat-Su Valley . KAYO is owned and operated by Alpha Media LLC . Its studios are located in Anchorage (two blocks west of Dimond Center ), and its transmitter is in Lazy Mountain, Alaska . This article about
190-491: The M Street Journal , said that thirty stations around the United States had switched to the format because many longtime country fans did not like what country radio was doing. The same practice has seemed to follow to television, where Country Music Television and Great American Country rarely play any music videos produced before 1996, leaving heritage and "classic" artists to networks such as RFD-TV , which features
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#1732884787060228-436: The amount of "classic" content in their playlist, and formats exist for such stations. In addition to pure "classic country" stations, which play little to no current or recurrent country hits (i.e., recorded after about 2010), country music-formatted stations tend to fall under one of these formats: With a few exceptions, the classic country genre has struggled as a radio format (unlike mainstream country stations). While it has
247-457: The mid-1990s, a large segment of older country fans felt alienated and turned away from mainstream country. Whereas modern country began moving to FM around this time, the classic country remained (and remains) one of the few formats that have proven ideal for AM radio , particularly in rural areas; before this transition, the country was primarily an AM radio phenomenon and was most widely popular in rural areas. In 1998, Robert Unmacht, editor of
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304-728: The sound of country music in the late 1980s and the early 1990s, as it began moving to FM radio stations in and around major cities and absorbing some of the electric sounds of rock music ; similar pressures also were a factor in the development of the Americana format at around the same time. These new FM country stations excluded older "classic" country artists from their playlists, even though artists, such as Merle Haggard , George Jones , Dolly Parton , Willie Nelson , Kenny Rogers and Emmylou Harris , were still actively performing and releasing new recordings, some of which were significant hits. When mainstream country radio began this practice in
323-597: The sounds of the classic country era. In part due to changing demographic pressures, "classic country" radio stations have begun adding 1990s music into their playlists since the late 2000s and phasing out music from the 1960s and earlier. As children who grew up between 2000 and 2009 are now adults, some classic country stations play country music from the 2000s, with 1970s music increasingly being de-emphasized. Some classic country stations are even adding occasional early 2010s music. Examples of this are KLBL in Malvern, Arkansas ,
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361-518: Was then the Hot Country Singles record chart . Before 1990, it had operated under a variant of the methods used to produce the Hot 100 ; singles sales were combined with radio airplay to rank songs on the chart. In 1990, through an affiliation with Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems , Billboard dropped record sales from the formula, basing a song's ranking solely on spins on country radio , weighted by
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