Tag: Country

Corus to flip Winnipeg’s Peggy@99.1 to Country 99

Corus Radio has announced that Peggy@99-1 (CFPG-FM) will be rebranded as Country 99: Winnipeg’s New Country later this month. Carrying an Adult Contemporary format spanning...

Apple relaunches live radio offerings with Beats 1 rebrand, new channels

Apple relaunched its live global radio offerings today on Apple Music, rebranding Beats 1 to Apple Music 1, and launching new channels Apple Music...

Broadcast Dialogue – The Podcast: RedCup Country with Coop

Coop, the host of syndicated weekend radio show RedCup Country, grew up listening to country music when country wasn't cool. Coop tells Broadcast Dialogue's...

Broadcast Dialogue – The Podcast: Shawn Parr, radio’s “Ambassador of Country...

Launching a national radio show during a pandemic: Shawn Parr’s Across the Country debuted on June 1, 2020 and immediately found a home on...

Kingston’s Pure Country commits to week of equal airplay

Kingston's Pure Country 98.9 (CKLC-FM) has committed to playing 50% women artists this week amidst the ongoing controversy over the lack of equal airplay...

Study finds men outplaying women on Canadian country radio 8.7 to...

Men are outplaying women on Canadian country radio by a ratio of 8.7 to 1, according to the latest study from University of Ottawa...

Bell Media rolls out national Pure Country rebrand

Bell Media has rolled out a rebrand of 13 of its iHeartRadio Canada stations. It's billing "Pure Country" as the first-ever national country music radio...

Broadcast Dialogue – The Podcast: Dr. Jada Watson on the widening...

Gender Representation on Country Format Radio, a new study from the University of Ottawa’s Dr. Jada Watson, and the first to examine Mediabase data, finds that...