“Country Hits Radio will feature artists such as\u00a0Keith Urban, Thomas Rhett,<\/strong>Maren Morris, Florida Georgia Line, Dan + Shay\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Carrie Underwood,\u00a0<\/strong>ensuring that\u00a0<\/strong>the station will be a true celebration of the fastest growing genre of music currently in the UK.”<\/p>\n “We are delighted to welcome\u00a0esteemed country music broadcaster\u00a0Baylen Leonard<\/strong>\u00a0(BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4)\u00a0who will host a\u00a0daily show,\u00a0fresh from winning the award for International Country Broadcaster at the 2019 CMA International Awards. Bringing his passion and knowledge of country music, Nashville’s\u00a0Ty Bentli<\/strong>\u00a0will share the best music and news from the US country scene Monday to Friday and singer-songwriter\u00a0Una Healy<\/strong>(The Saturdays, The Voice of Ireland) will also join the station for a weekend show.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The UK contemporary country music scene is growing rapidly and recent the market analysis can show that there are a reported 8.7 million country music fans in the UK, with album sales topping 1.9M in 2017; singles sales up by over 31% in the last six years; and a burgeoning live gig & festival scene.<\/p>\n The station will be on air from 5th April on DAB Digital Radio (England, Scotland and Wales) and online via smart speakers and mobile apps.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fresh off the heels of C2C global media giant Bauer Media who locally own Downtown Country, Downtown Radio and Cool FM have this morning announced that they will be launching a brand new country station on the national Digital Radio platform next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":""},"categories":[17,3],"tags":[377,378,39,376,15,379],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image002.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions\/2197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Baylen-Leonard-e1481561712521-1295x1000\"](\"http:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Baylen-Leonard-e1481561712521-1295x1000-150x150.jpg\")
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