March 1, 2021, Issue 745
Attendees Weigh In On CRS
As March dawns, most are preparing to mark one full year of “unprecedented times,” while Country radio pros are wrapping their heads around one complete online-only Country Radio Seminar. CRS 2021: The Virtual Experience concluded Feb. 19 following four days of web-based learning, connecting and advancing. Country Aircheck lets industry constituents weigh in on their experiences and takeaways from the week. • ADX WYCT/Pensacola PD/morning host Brent Lane: “I almost listened to it like a podcast. I enjoyed the Zoom session for the ‘Awards Submission Workshop,’ as I felt like Brent Lane the chat conversation was engaging, and I also learned a lot on the ‘Talk Data To Me’ panel. The performances were all good; Dan + Shay killed it! With the virtual setup, more of our team could be involved, and that was great for conversation in our building. I’d love to see some aspect of that again – $150 was an easy price point for some people who are normally not part of it. And, if I could keep something Cory Myers else from this year, it would be having Uber Eats deliver lunch to me at my house so I could eat on my couch while blasting the New Faces Show through our theater speakers.” • iHeartMedia WWYZ/Hartford MD/ morning co-host Cory Myers: “I have five kids that need me here, a husband who simply can’t live without me and a mom for whom I am a caregiver. My life is a shit show, and yet Hannah this virtual CRS allowed me to be present at Brummer seminars to get new ideas, listen to experts and finally feel like I was present in my career. Why can’t it continue as a virtual option for those of us who simply can’t make it to Nashville?” • Entercom WUSN/Chicago Coord./Promotions Hannah Brummer: “This was my first time attending CRS, and it was truly the best experience. (continued on page 7)
Down To No. 1: Capitol’s Luke Bryan joins his team in a toast to his 26th No. 1, “Down To One.” Pictured (top, l-r) are the label’s Megan Youngblood, Donna Hughes, Bobby Young and Megan Kleinschmidt and producer Jeff Stevens; (second row, l-r) the label’s Rob Femia, Chris Schuler and Mara Sidweber, producer Jody Stevens and the label’s Mike Dungan; (third row, l-r) manager Kerri Edwards, the label’s Annie Sandor, Bryan and the label’s Ashley Knight and David Friedman; (bottom, l-r) the label’s Royce Risser, Mike Harris and Katie Bright.
Kingsley Archives Donated To Hall
The symbiotic relationship between country music and Country radio is often oversimplified, sometimes usefully. If that intersection could be reduced to an easily understood embodiment, it might not be as a place, but as a person. Spanning almost 50 years, the career of the late Bob Kingsley tells the story of country music and its people in a way that can never be duplicated. And now that body of work – that of Bob and his team at American Country Countdown and, later, Country Top 40 – have been ensconced in the place devoted to preserving and telling the broader story of country music, the Country Bob Kingsley Music Hall of Fame and Museum. But it
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