Classic country radio stations

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Chapters: Classic country radio stations in the United States, WYCL, KBNH, WGGH, KFXR, WZBK-FM, WLDR-FM, WCVR, KOHU, KLAD, WIXI, WOKY, WGOL, KABQ-FM, WCKA, KVTT, WTDR, WAME, KWKH, WBMI, KLVT, WGLM, WOHS, WDLS, KCSF, WIRL, WSIG, WCCK, WPIL, KBLT, KHIL, KVKK, KTDD, WAOQ, KWYO, WRKA, KLIO, WCKF, WXMY, WQSI, KCKN, KKNG-FM, WWIC, KCYK, WKDW, KCTJ-LP, WLYE-FM, KLTC, WBKK, KSJB, WTGE, WMSK, KCWG-LP, KPRM, KCCT, KAFF, KRCQ, WELB, KBOK, WWKO, KBEC, WBMH, KBCK, KWLS, KBHT, KHOS-FM, KCLW, WAMI-FM, KSWG, KDNO, WEPG, WKKP, KDLR, KKOW, WGOC, KTHP, WZZX, WATQ, WAQE, KRDH, WEKZ, KCJB, KRRM, WNPC-FM, WHER, WYSH, WIXK, KWAD, WRMG, WLLE, KRAN, WMCT, WCBY, KHFX, WWIS-FM, WVBD, KUTI, KBIS, WTCH, WIHY, WWSM, WUJM, WJMT, KCTB-LP, KXRB, KFTI-FM, KBKB, WRGS, WAAI, KARS, KLTI, KBTC, WDXE, WWDX, WGDN-FM, KQAQ, KTPK, KXBL, KBNU, WLRV, WPPT, KPGG, KSLI, WLJZ, KRCO, KKYX, KKIN-FM, KBMR, KBAM, KEQX, KPRV, KDHL, WRAA, KAYQ, KIOX-FM, KAVV, WTCW, WRAM, KART, KCAR, KULY, KZHE, WRUS, KLEJ, KWHF, WVAL, KSAZ, KNOT. Excerpt: Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country hits from past decades. This genre generally follows one of two formats: those specializing in hits from the 1920s through the early 1970s, and focus primarily on innovators and artists from country music's Golden Age (including Hank Williams, George Jones and Johnny Cash); and those focusing on hits from the 1960s (including the above-mentioned performers) through early 1990s, some pre-1960 music, latter-day Golden Age stars and innovators such as Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard) to newer recurrent hits from current-day artists such as George Strait, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson and Reba McEntire. The format resulted largely from mainstream country radio's now common practice of excluding older "classic" country artists from their playlists when it began appearing on urban and suburban FM radio stations in the late 1980s and early 1990s (despite the fact that artists such as Haggard, 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 the mid-1990s, a large segment of older country fans felt alienated and turned away from mainstream country. In 1998, Robert Unmacht, editor of 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 a heavy complement of older programming such as Pop! Goes the Country, Porter Wagoner's programs and Hee Haw, along with newer performances from heritage acts. CMT Pure Country, the all-music counterpart to CMT, relegate