Lindsay Ell is a perky blonde purveyor of Today's Hot New Country that would be dismissed as another Taylor Swift wannabe by the self-proclaimed keepers of the true C&W flame if it wasn't for the fact that women acts are fighting to get what meager airplay they can get. She's on the road opening for Brad Paisley and CBS' (soon to be Entercom's) KNCI in Sacramento, the city's dominant country station, announced a promotion where listeners would get a chance to hang out in both her tour bus and bus of the fellow opening act Chase Bryant (that name sounds more like a soap opera character than a country singer) and hear an acoustic performance. Until someone noticed that her boyfriend for the last two years is Bobby Bones, the former Top 40 DJ who became a country DJ and whose morning show is syndicated by iHeart's Premiere Radio Networks and heard in Sacramento on iHeart's KBEB "The Bull," the station that was created to challenge KNCI. KNCI abruptly cancelled the promotion. Ell, after tweeting criticizing the station (without mentioning who her BF was), then showed up at iHeart's Sacramento cluster to play live in the studio for Bull listeners (and with the station announcing that they were playing her new single every hour on the hour last Friday) and then showed up at another competitor who wasn't cowed. KNCI later apologized, but the damage had been done (hopefully, this Google URL will miss the paywall):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/06/16/country-singer-lindsay-ell-is-dating-a-powerful-dj-she-got-dropped-by-a-rival-station-and-spoke-out/?utm_term=.a6d749775e80 Ell has not hidden her relationship, but not made a big deal about it either, because of radio airplay being so important. Bones, for his part, said that he and Ell had initially kept their relationship secret for the very same reason. Meanwhile, Ell is on Kimmel tomorrow night. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
