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unusual facts about Classic Country



KZQZ

By the early 1980s, WIL-FM was affirmed as the top country-music station in town, and 1430 AM was split off from their FM sister station to start a classic country format, which it kept until 1989 when the station switched to an adult standards format with the call letters WRTH, which were on the air with the same format for many years at 590 AM in Wood River, Illinois (now KFNS AM).

WAMN

WAMN is a Classic Country formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Green Valley, West Virginia, serving Bluefield in Virginia and Bluefield and Princeton in West Virginia.

WOBL

WOBL (1320 AM) – branded Gold Country 1320 AM – is a commercial classic country radio station licensed to Oberlin, Ohio, serving Lorain County and western parts of Greater Cleveland.

WVHT

The format shifted to classic country at 3:00 PM on April 10, 2003, after Black Hawk's Goodbye Says It All.

WZOR

The station is licensed to the Manitowoc County community of Mishicot, Wisconsin, and airs an active rock music format as "Razor 94-7." The station launched in 1994, and previously aired adult contemporary and classic country formats before being sold to current owner Woodward Communications, who launched "Razor 94-7" in 2000.


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Earl Thomas Conley

He shifted more deeply into the classic country sounds of artists such as Merle Haggard and George Jones.

Gliding Bird

The album contains five folky Harris originals (with influences from Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell) plus the country-rock of Bob Dylan and Fred Neil, classic country of Hank Williams and a folk-pop rendition of a Dionne Warwick/Bacharach/David hit.

KCYK

KCYK's programming includes local news and weather with Jennifer Blackwell, classic country programming, and live games of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

KZQZ

The classic country format continues on sister station 1510 WQQW in Highland, Illinois.

WGRX

Since then it has dropped the rock titles and become more of a mainstream challenger to rival WFLS, although classic country remains a regular part of the music mix.

WXRL

Syndicated programs include the Renfro Valley Gatherin', Classic Country Today with Keith Bilbrey and "Country Music Greats" with Jim Ed Brown.