A Country Radio Station Said Something Really Stupid About Playing Women On The Radio, So A Bunch Of Female Country Singers Came For Them

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— and I'm not kidding you —"Tomatogate," a country radio consultant named Keith Hill compared playing women on country radio to tomatoes in a salad.

"If you want to make ratings in country radio, take females out. The reason is mainstream country radio generates more quarter hours from female listeners at the rate of 70 to 75 percent, and women like male artists. The expectation is we're principally a male format with a smaller female component. I've got about 40 music databases in front of me, and the percentage of females in the one with the most is 19 percent.

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