New York City has gone Country!

[blackbowl68]

To all you country fans, this one's for you.

The New York City metro area has a new country radio station on its airwaves.
According to Newsday, on January 21, 2013 WRXP-FM signed on as Nash 94.7 at appropriately 9:47AM. It is the first proper country station in the NYC market since 1996.

The first song played was the current No. 1 single by Randy Houser, "How Country Feels." It was followed by Alan Jackson's "Gone Country," which includes the line, "She says 'I'm a simple girl myself, grew up on Long Island.'"

The station is owned by Cumulus Media, and I am not sure if they stream yet.
Congratulations, country fans. The largest radio market now plays country.

[Deleted]

Wasn't there one there recently that just went country? Like within the last few years? I guess that one didn't last if I recall correctly.

[blackbowl68]

There is Country 96.1 FM which is based out of Ronkonkoma, NY. But that station serves the Long Island radio market. I don't think its signal reaches the five boroughs.

[mrjukebox]

New York City has had mixed results as far as country music stations are concerned-There was WHN,WKHK,& WYNY but they all fell by the wayside-Good luck to Nash 94.7.

[upland1425]

Here are the headline articles on Nash 94.7 FM by the Country Aircheck Weekly and the Billboard Country Monday Update (new design).

www.countryaircheck.com/pdfs/current012213.pdf

www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/photos/pdf/2012/country_update_0122.pdf

[caseyfan100]

Jan 22, 2013 10:32:08 GMT -5 blackbowl68 said:

To all you country fans, this one's for you.

The New York City metro area has a new country radio station on its airwaves.
According to Newsday, on January 21, 2013 WRXP-FM signed on as Nash 94.7 at appropriately 9:47AM. It is the first proper country station in the NYC market since 1996.

The first song played was the current No. 1 single by Randy Houser, "How Country Feels." It was followed by Alan Jackson's "Gone Country," which includes the line, "She says 'I'm a simple girl myself, grew up on Long Island.'"

The station is owned by Cumulus Media, and I am not sure if they stream yet.
Congratulations, country fans. The largest radio market now plays country.

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Cumulus will be branding many country stations around the U.S. as Nash,so check your local listings.