Garth Brooks has announced his Sevens Network, LLC company is set to purchase a Nashville radio spot currently held by Lightning 100, at WRLT-FM/100.1 on the FM dial, to establish a new country station that will offer a mixture of younger and historically established artists.
\n\nWhen the sale goes through, Lighting 100, a respected adult-alternative station that has impacted Nashville for decades with an eclectic assort ment of music, won’t go away. It will move to another spot on the dial held by a different company, theoretically creating a win-win for fans of both indie-rock and country.
\n\nBrooks is saying that the emphasis will be on serving locals rather than being a “reporting” station that contributes to the industry charts. And he adds that female artists, who are unquestionably underserved in the heavily male-dominated country format, will get special emphasis on the new station.
\n\n“This is an opportunity to bring the entire family of country music together in one spot… the legends, the greats and the future greats,” Brooks said in a statement. “Nashville is being called ‘The Newest City in America,’ and we want to bring a new kind of communication, combining terrestrial and digital radio, built to grow…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/